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The increasing use of computer technology has come with two contrast impacts towards the social conduct of people. On one hand, the advance of computer technology has been contributing to the very significant portion of modern development, spanning from business, academic, social works, and governments.

We can use lots of computer features along with some compatible software to run. It seems positive since the news sounds pleasing. On the other hand, due to easiness of advanced technology as well, lots of people are getting to breach the intellectual property rights through some counterfeiting some computer software for the sake of individual interest.

In most of developed countries, the issue of intellectual property right is going steady due to the supporting supremacy of law. Yet, in many developing countries, the patents of someone’s work seem to be undervalued because of pirate behavior conducted by the irresponsible people. There are still many of computer users counterfeit the use of Microsoft Office without any legal licensing & copyright.

We can find lots of new software useful to help deal with our day-to-day works in a form of CD or DVD. Owing to the existence of CD/DVD Rewriter ROM, individual users of computer are enthralled to counterfeit the original versions.

It may sound pleasing on one side with the existing today’s computer on one side. But, we have to realize things need to get fixed on the other side for dealing with such modern technology for a better appreciation toward the intellectual patents.

Intellectual property is either owned by enterprises or individuals. Companies own this information with the basic idea of selling it in legal terms. However, a person prefers to sell the intellectual property, or keep it for themselves.

There are different forms of intellectual property rights, artwork, record labels, sound recordings, movies, software programs, computer programs, chips, inventions and discoveries.So, various types of intellectual property rights may come with different people. For example, a person who has invented a tool but not have the money to start production or make money on a large scale. Such a person can find a company willing to buy the idea and market it for them. They can pay a whole some amount of this idea and take the legal rights to the invention by patenting it on their company’s name. Read the rest of this entry »

In a simple word, intellectual property is defined as creative works that have economic value. Being protected by law, intellectual property is prevented from any illegal copying, performing, or distributing the works without appropriate permission. The primary objective of such legal protection is to provide incentives and honor for individual producers to crease more and more scientific and creative works benefiting the society.

There are two model of legal protection toward the creative works; first, intellectual property with the automatic legal protection from the beginning of creation, second, procedural process of requesting for legal protection of certain intellectual property rights to a government agency. Due to the fact that there are still many nations give lack of attention to the regulatory compliance upon the property rights, illegal copying and counterfeiting manners are still taking place in many parts of the world.

There are three types of intellectual property; patents, copyrights, and trademarks. Patent law is made to provide legal protection for individual invention demonstrating technological advance for human. Copyrights law is to protect a vast array of literary and artistic works, such as paintings, sculpture, poetry, musical compositions, photographs, motion pictures, TV program, computer software programs, and many more.

Meanwhile, trademark law is provisioned to protect words, slogans, and symbols serving to identify different brands of goods and services in market. After all, those forms of legal protection are still under the challenge of making them applied thoroughly with the support of authorities and people.