Intellectual Property Law
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Introduction:
Nowadays Intellectual Property has attracted a lot of attention due to the development of modern international trade. The intellectual property law, which establishes the protection over the intangible work also plays an important role in the law system. It creates property rights in a very wide and diverse range of things regulates the creation, use, and exploitation of mental or creative labour from novels, films, televisions broadcasts, paintings, computer programs, and performances, through to pen designs, genetically modified animals. We are now surrounded by and constantly interact with the subject matter of intellectual property law. Everyday we are reading the copyright work in the library; marking the book with a pen that has been patented, wearing a dress being protected by design rights, drinking the coca with Coca-Cola trade markin fact even the words of a story, the sound of a melody could fall in the protection of intellectual property law.
Surly the intellectual property law is pretty important in today's sophisticated industrial growth; it can induce or encourage desirable behavior. With its protection, the production and broadcasting of culture objects could happen at an optimal level . While on the contrary, the intellectual property law is not absolutely good, some of the aspects are not justifiable; it also has the potential to inhibit the publics ability to communicate, restrict people to develop ideas and produce new works, and slow up the way people interact with and use cultural objects, from time to time it will make our life inconvenient and expensive. The result is, when performing any activities, we feel difficult to tell whether it has broken the law or not. For instance, when you buy a protected CD and make a tape of that CD for a friend, it is fairly proper at first glance, but actually this behavior is not legal...