Chapter 4 Intellectual Property

What is Intellectual Property

any unique product of the human intellect that has commerical value

Give some Examples of Intellectual property

books, songs, movies, paintings, drawings, inventions, chemical formulas, computer programs

Intellectual Property Protections

Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights

What is a Patent

A public document that provides detailed description of invention.

Copyright provides owner of an original work 5 rights. Which are?

• Reproduction

• Distrubution

• Public Display

• Public performance

• Production of derivative works

Fair use

Sometimes legal to reproduce a copyrighted work without permission

What are the four factors a court considers with regards to fair use

• Purpose and character of use

• Nature of work

• Amount of work being copied

• Effect on market for work

Napster

• Peer to peer music exchange network

• Began operation in 1999

• Sued by RIAA for copyright violations

• Went offline in july 2001

What gets copyrighted?

Expression of idea, not idea itself

object program, not source program

What does URL stand for

Uniform Resource Locator

Time Shifting

recording a show and watching it later

Copying from vinyl records caused a hiss. What did people resort too instead

CD’s

Audio Home Recording Act of 1992

Protects rights of consumers to make copies of analog or digital recordings for personal, noncommercial use

Digital Rights Management

Actions owners of intellectual proptery in digital form take to protect their rights

-Encrypt digital content

• Mark Digtal content

Sony Introduced … in 1975 and people started time shifiting

BetaMax

What was the name of the Lawsuit where people started time shiftng TV Shows

Sony v. Universal City Studios

what was the name of the lawsuit where people started space shifting their music

RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Extend made it illegal for anyone to …

– Circumvent encryption schemes placed on digital media

– Circumvent copy controls, even for fair use purpose

Cyberlocks allowed

users to upload and download password protected files