Intellectual Property in Writing



Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “intellectual property in writing” in a holistic context. The research also analyzes many aspects of intellectual property rights that is purpose of intellectual property rights and how it has been exercised and its relationship to writing or literature (copyrights) and with academia and pitfalls and contradictions of copyrights are discussed in this paper.

Table of Contents

Introduction4

Discussion4

Intellectual Property4

Promotion and Protection of Intellectual Property6

Laws Related to Intellectual Property Rights6

Copyright and Academia8

Pitfalls in the Copyright Laws8

Copyright Act and First Amendment9

Conclusion10

Intellectual Property in Writing

Introduction

Intellectual property adverts to conceptions of the intellect: literary and artistic works; symbols and inventions; and names and images used in business and commerce. Industrial and copyright properties are the two broad categories of Intellectual property. Trademarks for protection of product identity, patents for inventions, service marks for prevention of perplexity as to the service supplier, industrial designs and geographical indications come under the category of Intellectual Property while literature like fiction, stories, plays and poems; movies, music, creative works paintings, drawings, statuettes and photographs and architectural design are covered under copyrights. Rights regarding copyright comprise those of producers of phonograms in their recordings, artists performing dramatic or musical work in their performances, and of broadcasters in their television and radio shows. (World Intellectual Property Organization, 2012)

Discussion

Intellectual Property

It is considered as the natural right for controlling the usage and spread of creation of someone's creative, literary, artistic or technological nature. Government may or may not confirm this natural right. Intellectual property is simply seen, in jurisdictions where there is no carrying out of theory of natural rights, as an insubstantial right established to legal persons by government to make use of certain important information for profit commercially. There is a variation exist, from nation to nation, in the rights of intellectual property granted or confirmed by Government.

To facilitate with monetary inducements to the makers of certain forms of info having enduring societal value, intellectual property rights, in theory, are secured by law. Argument is made that inadequate valuable information would be turned out, without this legal protection. The makers or creators of different types of valuable information are allowed property rights in various forms, by the governments of most countries. Copyright provides a legal protection to literary and artistic works. A copyright is also a natural property right in a literary or artistic conception that can be either established or not by government. In jurisdictions, where the intellectual property's natural rights theory is not concurred, copyright is perceived simply as a solely right, officially authorized to legal persons, by government for the exploitation of a creative or literary work for earnings for a definite time period. The work will be protected no more after that certain time period. Two socially valuable objectives are accomplished by copyright. First of all, it renders creators financial inducement for creating valuable information. Secondarily, it entails that valuable information be divulged in promulgated works will ultimately pass into the open domain turning ...