Chapter 7
Intellectual Property: Yours, Mine, and Ours
Appendices
List of Terms and Expressions
Artistic property - One type of intellectual property such as literary, musical, artistic, photographic and audiovisual works; protected by patents and copyrights back
Copyright (noun and verb) - To establish exclusive rights to written material – published or unpublished (Copyrighted is the adjective) back
Counterfeit (noun, adjective and verb) - One thing that imitates another; production of such an item without lawful authority; forged, false (adj); an impostor, fake (noun) back
Fraud (noun) - Deceit, trickery; intentional cheating or deception (Fraudulent is the adjective; to commit fraud is the verb.) back
Exclusive rights - Ownership and rights for use only for the person who has created the product or idea back
Industrial property - One type of intellectual property such as inventions, trademarks, industrial designs and appellations of origin; protected by patents and copyrights back
Intellectual property - Information that makes it possible for businesses to make a profit back
Patent (noun, verb) - A legal document that guarantees an inventor exclusive rights to an invention – in the U. S., for 17 years; verb: to create such a document back
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Violation
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Misinformation about the Olympic symbol See Nairobi Treaty on Protection of the Olympic symbol
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Violation
1. Olympic symbol copied
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Misinformation about the Olympic symbol See Nairobi Treaty on Protection of the Olympic symbol
- A well-known T-shirt manufacturer’s logo is used on T-shirts produced in another country. Who should get the profits for the sales of the T-shirts?
Some people say that the T-shirt manufacturer should get the profits because what is being sold is the logo, not the T-shirt.
- Some software is loaded on a computer at a large company. Employees are downloading the software for use on their home computers. Should someone pay? If so, who? How much? Why?
- A television program uses the same plot and characters of another show. Should the program obtain permission to use the copyrighted elements of the original show? Why/why not?
- A student in the class copies this handout and uses it in her business class at the university. Is that a violation of the copyright of these materials?
- A teacher uses an article from the newspaper in her class. She copies the article and gives it to her students. Have intellectual property rights been violated? If so, whose? If not, why not?
- A company makes copies of a famous painting. The company sells the copies. Who should pay for the right to copy these paintings? Why?
- An architect copies the design of a building and sells it to a client. Whose intellectual property rights have been violated? What should be done? Who should pay?