WEEK 2 EOC: Intellectual Property

http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/plagiarism/ownership.html -

     This mentions how intellectual property came to be.  "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." (United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8).   This gives the artist rights to further his/her country through these works of art.

http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/intellectual-property-law.html -

     This describes the four types of intellectual property which are;  Copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets.  It also tells what might happen if someone might steal your work as an artist.

http://www.technologies.msu.edu/inventors/intellectual-property -

     "It includes inventions, discoveries, know-how, show-how, processes, unique materials, copyrightable works, original data, and other creative or artistic works"  This goes more in depth about the different types of IP.

http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/ -

"IP is divided into two categories:  Industrial property and Copyright."  Says the subcategories of the two specific types of intellectual property.

http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Intellectual_Property_Rights/SEMPF825WVD_0.html -

"IP protection encourages the publication, distribution and disclosure of the creation to the public"