Unit 30 P6

Trade mark is a recognizable sign which presents ‘TM’ inside a ring. It identifies a service or product. Trade mark owner can be an individual, organisation, business or any legal entity.

Intellectual property (IP) is a legal term that refers to all sorts of creations of the mind. Some of the examples for intellectual property is music, words, symbols, inventions, literature, other artistic work and other.

Copyright issues- Copyright is a legal right created by the country law to grant creator exclusive rights to its use and distribution. Most of copyrights are just for limited time such as photographer of the photograph or an author of a book. The problem with copyrights is that people can download someones product without paying anything, or use it for their own use without asking a person that has rights for this product. Percentage of people that download files, product illegally is increasing each day. Because internet is so big today, people can download pretty much everything for free which is called piracy. Downloading is not the only way of piracy. Copying, file sharing or install are also ways of piracy. As long as a person uses someones product in any way and it doesn’t have right to do it, it is called piracy.

Gaining permission to use copyright product- Some individual or company would allow others to use their product/file as it could make the company/individual more popular, gain more profit, help others and more. To get permission to use copyright product, simply a person that wants to use it needs to contact owner of this product and ask for permission. If the owner agrees, then the person can use it for its own use legally.

Legal pitfalls in editing graphics- If someone would use a logo or any picture on the internet, and then use it for their own use just changing the name (e.g. nike logo would be used but it would be named differently), the person could be sued because the picture that he used is someones personal product, even if it is a simple picture.