What is Intellectual property?

What is Intelectual Property?

Industrial Property includes patents for inventions, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications.
Copyright covers literary works (such as novels, poems and plays), films, music, artistic works (e.g., drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures) and architectural design. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and broadcasters in their radio and television programs.

Where are patents and copyrights going in, say, 20 years? We are having problems with them now, will these problems extrapolate? Also, do you think will the penalties get worse?

My personal feelings about intelectual property are a give and take feeling. I see re-creating music as a beneficial and creative means, however those who do that are subject to copyright infringement. I am also an advertising major, and would not find it acceptable for someone to take hard copy, such as print advertising, and re-create that. I feel there is a difference between tangible and non-tangible things that restricts someone from infringing on others' copyrights and intelectual property.

Girl Talk documentary synopsis, A Remix Manifesto

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