Intellectual Property Rights  | Societal Impacts | Short Notes | PGT Computer Science | Part 04
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Date: 05/01/2023

Intellectual Property Rights 
Property 
Property generally means possession or, more specifically, something to which the owner has legal rights. 
Intellectual Property 
It refers to creations of the intellect used in commerce: 
• Inventions 
• Literary and Artistic work 
• Symbols 
• Names, Images, and designs 

It is a property, a scientific, innovatory invention created by a person or group of persons using their intellect for ultimate use in commerce. It is already not available in the public domain. 
Following are examples of intellectual property: - 
These are an invention relating to a product or any process, a new design, a literary or artistic work and a trademark (a word, a symbol and /or a logo etc.), 
Intellectual property (IP) refers to a brand, invention, design, or another kind of creation over which a person or business has legal rights. Almost all companies own some form of IP, which could be a business asset. 
Common types of IP include: 
Copyright protects written or published works such as books, songs, films, web content and artistic works. 
Patents protect commercial inventions, for example, a new business product or process. 
Designs – this protects designs, such as drawings or computer models. 
Trademarks – This protects signs, symbols, logos, words or sounds that distinguish your products and services from your competitors. IP can be either registered or unregistered. 
Intellectual property rights are privileges of ownership of all rights associated with intangible assets owned by a person or company and protected against use without consent or license amount paid. All Proprietary, shareware, nagware software and branded computer hardware are categorized under IPR. 
These are certain rights or privileges granted for the ownership of scholarly, intelligent, knowledgeable logical work referred to as Proprietary when it becomes Copyrighted or Registered. 
Proprietary is a synonym for Trademarked, Branded, Patented or privately operated, usually for commercial purposes. 
• Antonym of Proprietary is Generic. 
• Work like registered Domain names, Industrial designs, confidential information, Inventions, Program and Database rights and literacy works of authorship or recorded performances in physical or abstract forms. 

Patents may refer to permission granted to privilege the exclusive legal ownership of the work as mentioned above. 
Copyright laws protect intellectual property 
Copyright 
It is a legal concept enacted by most governments, giving the creator of the original work exclusive rights, usually for a limited period. 
Plagiarism 
It is stealing someone's intellectual work and representing it as your own work without citing the source of information. 
Copying someone's work and then passing it off as one's own 
• Act of stealing 
• Copying information and not giving the author credit for it 
• Copying programs written by other programmers and claiming them as your own 
• Involves lying, cheating, theft, and dishonesty 
It is presenting someone else's work in the form of words, views, ideas, images, sounds or the creative expression and performance of your own work in the following ways: - 
i. Whether it is an idea or either published or unpublished material. 
ii. Whether in hard copy manuscript, design or softcopy or electronic form; 

Measure to avoid Plagiarism? 
• Plagiarism is a bad practice and should be avoided by the following measures: 
• Use your own words and ideas. 
• Always provide a reference or credit to the source from which you have received your information. 
• You must give credit whenever you use 
• Another person's idea, opinion, or theory. 
• Quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words 
• Paraphrase another person's spoken or written words.