What is Intellectual Property?
Information collected from WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION
Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.
IP is divided into two categories: Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source:and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs. For an introduction to IP for non-specialists, refer to:
- Understanding Copyright and Related Rights
- Understanding Industrial Property
- WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook (a comprehensive introduction to the policy, law and use of IP)
Intellectual property surrounds us in nearly everything we do. At home, at school, at work. At rest and at play. No matter what we do, we are surrounded by the fruits of human creativity and invention.
In our case, we are majority are in art and craft therefore understanding on Copyright and related Rights are important to us.
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