What is the Intellectual property?

Intellectual property refers to the special “rights” that inventors, authors, and artists enjoy in their ideas and inventions or their writings and works of art. The law of intellectual property is the sets of statutes, regulations, and judge-made law that that has gradually developed to define those rights and the legal protection they receive.

Intellectual property law is generally divided into three primary areas: Patents protect ideas in invention, Copyrights protect works of art and authorship, and Trademark protect brand names and logos.

Copyright exclusive rights

• The Reproductive Right - The exclusive right to reproduce or copy the work.

• The Adaptation Right- The exclusive right to prepare derivative works based on the original copyrighted work.

• The Distribution Right - The exclusive right to distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public.

• The Performance Right - The exclusive right to perform the work publicly (except for pictorial, graphic and sculptural works, architectural works and sound recordings)

• The Display Right - The exclusive right to display the work to the public (except for architectural works or sound recordings).