Intellectual Property
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Intellectual property is a collective name for various rights to things that people invent or create. Intellectual property can rest on anything. Examples include texts, software, images, photos, designs, databases (or databases) and inventions. Laws, such as the Copyright Act, Trade Name Act or National Patent Act, regulate what is eligible for which protection.
What Intellectual Property is there?
Intellectual property is also known as IP or intellectual property rights (IP law / IP rights). Forms of intellectual property are copyright, database right, trade name right, trademark right, design right and patent right. Neighbouring rights, personality rights and rights to domain names are often seen as rights related to IP law.
IE, internet and IT
Intellectual property is becoming increasingly important on the internet, for IT and ICT. The different rights protect the different products of the human mind. An invention can be protected by patent law; an original software program by copyright. Company names can be protected by trade name rights and brand rights. Domain names can also be granted certain rights.
There are also more infringements of IP rights due to the rise of the internet. Many photos, images and web pages are illegally taken over by others. The rightholder can take action against such infringements.
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