Intellectual Property Rights, Copyrights, Patents, And...

Mid-Term Exam 1. Intellectual Property Rights: Intellectual Property Rights are right for a person, company or organization to have privilege for their own ideas, plans, innovations and creativity to be protected for a certain period of time by copyrights, trademarks, patents and trade secrets.[1] In today’s world, the new emerging technologies allow people to easily violate the intellectual property rights of others. The emerging technologies like computer and communications have made easier for people to copy best quality and distribute the copied material at very large quantity very easily and cheaply. In the following examples, I will discuss that how new emerging technologies allow people to violate intellectual property rights of†¦show more content†¦Violation of intellectual property rights using technology in musical work. [3] Musical work is a work that is represented or expressed in form of written and verbal notation. Today, technology has made easier for offenders to get access to someone’s musical work without authorization and can easily copy or steal it using technology and can present it for their own profit. Example III. Violation of intellectual property rights using technology in audio-visual work. [3] Audio-Visual work includes movies, videos and plays that is played visually and in the background audio being played. Interestingly, offenders vehemently uses technology to steal content or entire audio-visual work for their own profit. For example, nowadays, a newly released movie, video song or play is easily available on internet, so, the offenders make uses of free tools that are available on internet to copy that movie or video song and can easily upload or sell it by making hard copies of it for their own profit. This is a violation of copyrights of audio-visual work. Example IV. Violation of intellectual property rights using technology in software industry. Software industry work includes developing software, websites, webpages and many more. New emerging technology itself allow offenders to use technology to steal code or develop same type of software or web page using the existing documentation. For example, users can get source code of any software which is developed using .NET framework or C#