ENGINEER 1P03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Universal Copyright Convention, Reverse Engineering, Photocopier
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Intellectual property ideas and creations produced by others that can be owned, bought, sold or shared. Disclosure or theft must be prosecuted under tort or criminal law. Proprietary intellectual property: property of which exclusive ownership has been established, all definitions and interpretations are subject to the reinterpretation of lawyers and courts. Includes common knowledge, expired legal protection, placed in public domain by owner (ex. Industrial espionage hiring people away from a competitor (employment contract may prohibit) Copyright: right to produce, reproduce, perform, publish, adapt, sell, or lease an original literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work. Reproduction includes recording, photographing, filming, or using any. Copyright convention and the universal copyright convention: under fair dealing provisions, short extracts can be used for research, private study, news reporting, criticism, review etc. Infringement is to make, sell, distribute, import, or rent copies of a copyright without written consent.