PUBPOL 201 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 - Copyright
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What is intellectual property? (four categories: trade secret. People who have access to this information are bound not to disclose it. If you are not given access to a trade secret, you cannot violate it. If you happen to figure it out on your own, that is perfectly legal. Federal statute landem act: patent law. Must be useful and nonobvious to people in the field. Ex: better mouse trap, business model, genetically modified mice. Must disclose all secrets to the public through the federal reserve. People must pay for permission to use it. Many people rely on trade secrets instead of patents, so they don"t have to disclose the information to the public: copyright. Most relevant to our lives on a daily basis. We are constantly interacting with copyrighted works. Ex: notes we are taking, drawing on the board: intellectual property is not necessarily intellectual. Should not be thought of as real proprety.
