1.4+Intellectual+Property

=Intellectual property=

IB definition
"Intellectual property includes ideas, discoveries, writings, works of art, software, collections and presentations of data. Copyright, trademarks and patents exist to protect intellectual property. However, the easy and accurate duplication methods made available through IT can undermine such protection."

Primary rights:

[|Copyright] • [|Patent] • [|Trademark] • [|Industrial design right] • [|Utility model] • [|Geographical indication] • [|Trade secret] • [|Authors' rights] • [|Related rights] • [|Moral rights]

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__Leaked Afghan War Logs on Wikileaks.org__
In July 2010, the popular website Wikileaks.org released more than 90,000 US military records, revealing hidden details about the war, such as documents showing unreported killings of Afghan soldiers. The situation was described as "potentially damaging to operational security", revealing a serious case of government secrecy:

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BBC article on the story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8853000/8853937.stm

__Pirate Bay - Copyright Infringement__
The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website that indexes and tracks BitTorrent files. It bills itself as "the world's largest BitTorrent Tracker and is ranked as the 96th most popular website by 'Alexa Internet'. However, in early 2009, the 3 men who run it and a businessman who sold services to the site were sentenced to a year in jail after being found guilty of promoting copyright infringement:

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Other Links on Intellectual Property:
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