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Information Security and Law
What is Intellectual Property Law?
Answer: Copying or using someone else’s ideas.
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
Industrial property:
Patent: 20 years you cannot use my invention, a WIPO international Patent.
Trademark: protects the goodwill of an organisation (word, name, symbol, colour, sound, product shape, and device).
Copyright: Copyright protection is weaker than patent protection, duration is longer.
A minimum of 50 years after the creator’s death or 70 years under U.S. copyright protection.

