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What are the ways to prevent computer crime:

• Strengthen legal

Now with the legal world of information technology be strengthened so everyone does not go around again law, because the can-can was escorted to the police station. Industry organizations like the Software Publishers Association (SPA) was formed shortly after the rampant piracy.

• software in large and small scale. (Commercial software piracy is now a serious crime, could dienjara maximum of 5 years and fined up to $ 250,000 to anyone who proved using pirated peragkat). By strengthening this law at least will reduce the risk of information technology crime.

• CERT: Computer Emergency Team respose

In 1988, after the internet was widespread, the U.S. Defense Department formed CERT. Although these institutions do not have the authority to detain or prosecute, CERT provides international information and services around security for Internet users. CERT hadr as escort party which was attacked, to help overcome penggangu, and evaluate systems that have been megalami attack to protect it from future interference.

Protection

Not all countries have carried out the same protection of Copyright. For example, in countries like the U.S. it gives less importance to moral rights in European countries. While in Europe is considered to have moral rights last for ever, it is not extinguished, U.S. are considered to have the same duration as the assets, 70 years since the death of the author.

Conclusions
As web developers know the current legislation on intellectual property is essential to actively protect our rights as authors. But at the same time, as users and consumers, this knowledge is equally important to avoid violating the law.

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 »

The Registry is an administrative agency created to protect intellectual property rights of authors and other owners on the creations of literary, artistic or scientific.

The Registrar General of Intellectual Property is part of the General State Administration under the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. There are also territorial records managed by the Autonomous Communities who process registrations that occur on their territory.

The Registration is voluntary and therefore the existence of intellectual property rights does not depend on registration: intellectual property rights are born with the creation of the work. The registry is intended to protect intellectual property rights by providing proof of the existence of the work and ownership that has on it who fits.
Another aim of the Register is to publicize the rights which it fits.

What works can be entered in the Register?
In the registry can sign the rights to all works, performances and productions that are protected by copyright law and intellectual property rights that apply to performers, producers of phonograms and audiovisual recordings, institutions broadcasting, creators of photographs and some editorial productions.

However, they can not be registered because they are not protected by copyright law, ideas, procedures, systems, methods of operation or mathematical concepts in themselves, nor the laws or regulations, decisions of the courts, opinions of public bodies and official translations of such texts.

The Registration of Intellectual Property
May apply for registration of works, performances or productions, the authors of them and those who have any intellectual property right.

Registration is effective from the date of filing, except that this request be remedied because some data is missing or document required for processing. In these cases, the registration is effective when these improvements occur.

Registration applications are presented by providing the official application form in duplicate, copy identifying the work, performance or production, in each case documentation is required and proof of payment of the fee.

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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.