Intellectual Property RIghts

1. Types of rights
 - Copyright
 - Database (EU only)
 - Performance rights
 - Patents
 - Trade marks
 - Design rights
 - Moral rights (EU only)

2. Copyright
 - protects "work"
 - owned by the authors(s) of the work (or the employer)
 - can only be transferred in writing
 - infringement of copyright: primary infringement is purely a civil matter / secondary infringement can be a criminal offence
 - Licensing: A license allows someone (the licensee) to use a work for some or all purposes but the owner retains ownership
  * License can be exclusive or non-exclusive

https://www.gov.uk/topic/intellectual-property/copyright

3. Copyright & Digital Technology
 - Digital work => Ease of Reproduction / Storage / Dissemination
  => The Web violates the principle of copyright

4. Creative Commons licensing
 - Creative Commons (CC) addresses legal problems in the area of global copyright law
 - offers viable middle ground between stringent copyright and completely unfettered use of content
 - provides a set of user-friendly online licenses
 - CC Licensing Conditions: Attribution / No Commercial Use / No Derivative Works / Share Alike

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/