Intellectual Property

Research Questions

Yue
1. What is Intellectual Property?
2. Where it can be applied?
3. Legal issues concerned with it
4. Does Intellectual Property different in the world?
5. How does Intellectual Property develop?

Aarti - Intellectual Property
6. Why is "intelectual property" such a big issue for WEB 2.0?
7. Is it possible to keep the original work and the one that is changed by different users synchronized with each other?
8. What could we do so that the initial meaning by the author of the document is not lost by the several changes of other users?
9. If users make changes on a document, are the copyrights still owned by the original author?
10. What is a solution to the problem of intellectual property in a WEB 2.0 environment?

Aarti - Open Content
1. What is Open Content?
2. How do we currently deal with the problems of intellectual property of open content?
3. Describe the problem of Intellectual Property of Open Content in a WEB 2.0 environment.
4. What will be a good solution for this problem?

Aarti - Open Source
1. What is Open Source?
2. How do we currently deal with the problems of intellectual property of open Source?
3. Describe the problem of Intellectual Property of Open Source in a WEB 2.0 environment.
4. What will be a good solution for this problem?

Sandhya
1. Where does intellectual property come from (history)?
2. Who sets the policy for intellectual property? (like 3rd Q Yue)
3. What are the political debates/criticisms nowadays (news)?
4. What is MAPP (Marketing and patent program)?
5. What is the role of creative comments in intellectual property and what kind of licenses are there?

Ashwina - Intellectual Property
1. What is intellectual property?
2. What is intellectual property related to Web 2.0?
3.

Answers

intellectual property Intellectual property (IP) refers to a legal entitlement which sometimes attaches to the expressed form of an idea, or to some other intangible subject matter. This legal entitlement generally enables its holder to exercise exclusive rights of use in relation to the subject matter of the IP. The term intellectual property reflects the idea that this subject matter is the product of the mind or the intellect, and that IP rights may be protected at law in the same way as any other form of property.

Intellectual property laws are territorial such that the registration or enforcement of IP rights must be pursued separately in each jurisdiction of interest. However, these laws are becoming increasingly harmonised through the effects of international treaties such as the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, while other treaties may facilitate registration in more than one jurisdiction at a time.

Overview Intellectual property laws confer a bundle of exclusive rights in relation to the particular form or manner in which ideas or information are expressed or manifested, and not in relation to the ideas or concepts themselves (see idea-expression divide). It is therefore important to note that the term "intellectual property" denotes the specific legal rights which authors, inventors and other IP holders may hold and exercise, and not the intellectual work itself.

Intellectual property laws are designed to protect different forms of intangible subject matter, although in some cases there is a degree of overlap.

copyright may subsist in creative and artistic works (eg. books, movies, music, paintings, photographs and software), giving a copyright holder the exclusive right to control reproduction or adaptation of such works for a certain period of time. A patent may be granted in relation to an invention that is new, useful and not simply an obvious advancement over what exisited when the application was filed. A patent gives the holder an exclusive right to commercially exploit the invention for a certain period of time (typically 20 years from the filing date of a patent application). A trademark is a distinctive sign which is used to distinguish the products or services of one business from those of another business. An industrial design right protects the form of appearance, style or design of an industrial object (eg. spare parts, furniture or textiles). A trade secret (also known as "confidential information") is an item of confidential information concerning the commercial practices or proprietary knowledge of a business. Patents, trademarks and designs fall into a particular subset of intellectual property known as industrial property.