Level Two1. Intellectual property, or IP, refers to a legal entitlement which sometimes attaches to the expressed form of an idea, or to some other intangible subject matter. This legal entitlement generally enables its holder to exercise exclusive rights of use in relation to the subject matter of the IP. The term intellectual property reflects the idea that this subject matter is the product of the mind or the intellect, and that IP rights may be protected at law in the same way as any other form of property. these are five examples of
IP: -
Copyright, is the protection of creative and artistic works like music, movies or books.
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patent is granted in case of a new or useful invention.
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Trademark is a distinctive sign used to distinguish the products from a company. - An
Industrial Design Right, protects the form of appearance, style or design of a product.
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Trade Secret or a
Confidential Information, is an item of confidential information concerning the commercial practices of a company.
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EULA or
User License Agreement is a license that specifies what the user of a software has the right to do and what is granted by the owner.
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Digital Rights Management refers to technologies that control or restrict the use and access of digital media content on electronic devices with such technologies installed. It concerns works that may be subject to right management are generally educational materials included in online repositories, and tagging for rights clearing. It's not to be confound with copyrights.
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Pay-On-Demand TV is a system that permits viewers to choose from a wide range of programs that they can purchase and watch on their TV. On
TVKO, you can watch world championship of boxing.
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Time shifting is a way of recording a program on TV and watch it with a little delay which is more convinient for the user. The more common type of time shifting is the
Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) and in a couple of years
Personal Video Recorder (PVR), will replace the actual VCR.
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TIVO, is a type of Personal Video Recorder that storage the programs captured on TV onto a hard disk so that we can watch them later.
7. An
FTP Server, is a computer responsible for serving any kind of files which can also be a web browser.
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Prime Time TV and radio, are shows which are broadcast on TV or radio during the middle of the evening. It's the time when most viewers are usually watching TV or listening to the radio and wen the TV networks make much of their advertising revenue.
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Long Tail Marketing Strategy, is usually used in statistic applied in relation to wealth distribution and describes certain business and economic models like www.amazon.com for instance.10.
Ripping is the process of copying audio or video data from a dvd or a cd onto a hard disk. For consumers of digital content, there are a number of practical uses for ripping. One is to allow the owners of CDs or DVDs to listen or watch their purchased content in a more flexible way. For example, ripping can allow users to listen to music from a number of different albums without having to change discs and to make customised playlists of the music. Ripping can also be used to allow music to be played on portable digital audio player. Creating a backup of purchased and copyrighted media is legal in some countries, including the USA. In countries like France, anyone is allowed to make a private copy of a copyrighted material for himself and the source copy does not even have to be legal (making copies for other people is however forbidden, and, a fortiori, charging for such copies).
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Alternative Journalism on the web, is another proposition of what you can usually watch as news on TV or read in newspaper. It was brought up with the new medias like
podcasting also.
