LAWS 3202 Study Guide - Bioprospecting, Worshipful Company Of Stationers And Newspaper Makers, Copyright Law Of Canada
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Property: sole or despotic dominion (fucking mine) which one man claims exercises over external things in world. Not a thing, bundle of rights that govern an owner and non-owner"s relationship to something. Control-oriented social relationship that is recognized by law. The rights of property: right to possess, use, exclude others, and dispose of something. Ownership property rights + suppoerted by social norms that enable & limit control relationship over things between persons. Intellectual property: nonphysical property which tems from, is identified as, and whose value is based upon some idea or ideas where idea means some unique product of cognitive effort. Basic function: attaching ownership to utility value of an idea through property rights. Ip is property created by specific legal regimes law defines the extent and limitations of forms of ip, ipr granted by statutes, do not occur naturally. Legal relationship that gives ownership rights to expressions of intangible products of human mental creativity.
