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Intellectual Property Law - dated: October 21, 2004 - author: Joe Regan - Intellectual Property Law can be quite confusing at times. Copyrights, trademarks and patents all have a role in protecting your hard earned content and knowing their role is half the battle. Intellectual property in itself refers to the creations of the mind click here for full text.

What is Intellectual Property - posted: March 18, 2005 - author: Stuart Simpson - Intellectual Property is the product of your thinking that can be used for commercial value. In other words, you think of a song and write down the words – you have the legal right to prevent others from copying or making a song based on your lyrics. This right you have can make you money if click here for full text.

Do You Own Your Web Site Design - dated: September 17, 2004 - author: Richard A. Chapo - Your web site has been up for a few months and you are making money hand over foot. While surfing sites one evening, you are shocked to find a competitor using your design. You find out your designer sold them the same design. They must be breaking the law, right? It all depends on whether you own the copyright to your web site design. Many site owners are shocked to find out they do not. What is Copyright click here for full text.

Intellectual property - dated: September 6, 2005 - author: From Wikipedia - In law, particularly in common law jurisdictions, intellectual property or IP refers to a legal entitlement which sometimes attaches to the expressed form of an idea, or to some other intangible subject matter. In general terms this legal entitlement sometimes enables its holder to exercise exclusive control over the use of the IP. The term intellectual property reflects the idea that the subject matter of IP is the product of the mind or the intellect, and that once established, such entitlements are generally treated as equivalent to tangible property, and may be enforced as such by the courts. click here for full text.

Copyright - dated: September 6, 2005 - author: From Wikipedia - A copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by government for a limited time to regulate the use of a particular form, way or manner in which an idea or information is expressed. Copyright may subsist in a wide range of creative or artistics forms or "works". These include literary works, movies, musical works, sound recordings, paintings, photographs, software, and industrial designs. Copyright is a type of intellectual property. click here for full text.

Trademark Registration - Procedures and Costs - dated: September 6, 2005 - author: Michael A. Doctrow - When considering the adoption of a trademark, companies should be concerned about whether they can protect the mark against third party infringement and whether they may be sued for infringement for using a mark. Both factors should be addressed simultaneously before significant expenditures are made in connection with the development or use of the mark. The costs associated with the clearance and protection of marks is fairly nominal when compared to the cost of either a trademark infringement action or developing a new mark. click here for full text.

10 Big Myths about copyright explained - dated: September 6, 2005 - author: Brad Templeton - Note that this is an essay about copyright myths. It assumes you know at least what copyright is -- basically the legal exclusive right of the author of a creative work to control the copying of that work. If you didn't know that, check out my own brief introduction to copyright for more information. click here for full text.

Geographical indication - dated: September 6, 2005 - author: From Wikipedia - Governments have been protecting trading names and marks used in relation to food products identified with a particular region since at least the end of the nineteenth century, using laws against false trade descriptions or passing off, which generally protect against suggestions that a product has a certain origin, quality or association when it does not. In such cases the consumer protection benefit is generally considered to outweigh the limitation on competitive freedoms represented by the grant of a monopoly of use over a geographical indication. click here for full text.

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