While writing previous post I used many
sites and of course, I have given credit to them still, I pondered upon the
thought that what if I had used the material without citing them. This happens
many a times in our Indian cinema and we better know it as Plagiarism.
More recently Apple sued Samsung in US
for adopting similar physical attributes and hardware.
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What can a person do when his
material/work is used by other without his prior permission.
On this context were built two
important concepts and laws on Intellectual Property Rights and is governed by
WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) that grants the patents:
1. Patents
2. Copyrights
3. Trademarks (will discuss it later)
Lets understand it in simple terms.
While patents are usually on material, process and object the copyrights
are associated with publications, books, music etc. Let’s delve ourselves
deep into the world of copyrights and Patents
Patent
A patent for an
invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the
Patent and Trademark Office. The term of a new patent is 20 years from the date
on which the application for the patent was filed.
Copyright
Copyright is a form of protection
provided to the authors of "original works of authorship" including
literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works,
both published and unpublished.
The common view on copyright versus
patenting is that copyright protects the expression of an idea, while a patent protects the idea itself.
Thus a same story told by different
people in different expression or say using same idea but different dialogues
would not infringe copyright, but an invention like Android platform can’t be
duplicated as its patented. Similarly applications on android and apple are
copyrighted not patented as you can have two different calculators showing same
answer using same coding but as a whole the expression is different.
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