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Intellectual property

rights
Intellectual property rights
Intellectual property rights are the
legally recoganized exclusive rights to
creation of the mind
Under intellectual property law
owners are granted certain exclusive
rights to a variety of intangible
assets

Intellectual propertyrights
are the legal rights over
the mind creations that
include academic, artistic or
commercial creations

Copyrights are the rights of
an author on his creative work or an
artist on his artwork to protect them
from its unauthorised recreation of
their work

Copyright is a form of intellectual property,applicable to any
expressible form of an idea or information that is substantive
and discrete.
Copyrights include the films,musical creations,drawings or
sculptures and architectural designs. It can also include
technicals works like a computer software or electronics data
to protect it from piracy or unauthorised copying.
Copyrights are said to be terretorial which means that they
do not extend beyond the territory of a specific state unless
that state is a party to an internationals agreement.
The first english copyright law was passed in the
year 1709.
Today however, this is less relevant since most
countries are parties to at least on such agreement.
Copyrights do not continue indefinitely but they
lasts for upto 70 years even after the death of
original creator.
It includes the product
formulations, trademarks or
symbols ,designs ,commercial
names, geographical indications
,etc.
Examples :-

Examples of ICT
Internet wireless network
Examples of ICT
cellphone
Examples of ICT
Other
communication
mediums
ICT has revolution the field of
communication in the past
few years.

People now
communicate
in real time
with other
indifferent
countries using
technology like
instant
messaging ,
videoconferen
cing ect .

Social
networking
website like
facebook ,
orkut , linkedin
, skype , viber
ect
allow users to
remain in
contact with
each other on
regular basis .
In other words ,
ICT has converted
the world into a
global village.
These developments
have benefitted the
other areas also like
education , health ,
services , global
economy , business ,
agriculture ect.
For this reason
ICT is often
studied in
content of how
modern
communication
technologies
affects socity

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