Intellectual Property Rights: An out look
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Date
2004-02
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INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad
Abstract
Intellectual Property Rights having numbers of its characters and linked with real and
personal property. IP is an asset and may be bought, sold, licensed, leased, exchanged
and may be given away like any other property. IP (Patent, trade mark, copy right and trade
secrets) are protected on their own way thus their scope of protection and requirements for
granting protection (under law) may differ nation to nation. Presently electronic media/
knowledge of the information is a conceptual rather than a physical entity. Its value usually
lies in its nature, content and potential use. Under present circumstances the legal opinion
and the Court of Justice have to establish the extent of professional relationship between
librarians and their uses in this electronic age. According to Tarter “Information liability can
be defined as a two fold question. Firstly who is responsible for creating and providing
information for third party consumption and secondly to what extent the creator is actually
liable for the quality of information.” Liability of information creators, who create information
does not enjoy total freedom of expression. Both the creator and the publisher of information
irrespective of the medium in which it is produced are jointly responsible for assuring that
information content and is acceptable in legal sense. Determining who is liable for
information in the electronic environment, is much more difficult task when taking with
printed information. The developed countries have evolved elaborate Laws and Rules, so
as to reward the creators of the IP to encourage them and gain from their such activities, and
also to ensure that the competitive envi ronment continue and works of creativity to reach
the customers on reasonable cost. So that the growth of knowledge would serve the country
in its overall economic and social developments.
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Intellectual Property, copy right, Information