CCT206H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Copyright Term Extension Act, Moral Rights, Typography
9 Apr 2018
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Lecture four: property and intellectual property; introduction to. Submit through turnitin - due next week, thursday: feb 1, 2018. Quote or summarize - include a citation. Patent: protect an invention or innovation process, generally last 20 years. Right - stops someone from manufacturing, selling, or using an invention. There are over 150, 000 patents on the average smartphone. Brand names lets the customers know the source for consumer safety and to guarantee the consistency in quality of a product or service. As long as you do business successfully, but not too successfully. If google becomes a verb (a part of our language), they don"t have trademark anymore. Trade secrets: it remains a secret as long as you keep it a secret; prior restraints to prevent. Rights of publicity: protects someone"s ability to control the use of their likeness to promote a product, service, etc. Related to personality rights strong in california. Industrial design + circuit typography are sub specializations, ex.
