Intellectual Property in Business Technology

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Introduction Multimedia developers and the music industry are major contributors when it comes to intellectual property. With advancement in business technology organization should be concern about intellectual property (IP) and how it could affect their business. There are many aspects of intellectual property that a business or individual should be concerned with, materials that are protected, IP laws, advantage IP business advantage, how important intellectual property is to businesses, intellectual property issues, and how IP affects the value of technology. They should have a clear understand why IP is becoming a critical part of business and the technology that they use. “The earliest use of the term "intellectual property" appears to be an October 1845 Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling in the patent case Davoll et al. v. Brown. In which Justice Charles L. Woodbury wrote that "only in this way can we protect intellectual property, the labors of the mind, productions and interests as much a man's own...as the wheat he cultivates, or the flocks he rears." Some would even say that it can be traced back even further beginning with Jewish laws which prohibited plagiarism also called “g’neivat d’at” stealing of the mind” Materials that are protected Businesses need to know what types of materials are considered protected, and the laws that protect them. The first type of works of authorship that can be protected is musical works such as songs, advertising jingles, and instrumentals. Literary works are also protected materials just items like novels, poetry, newspaper articles, magazine articles, computer software, software manuals, training manuals, manuals, catalogs, brochures, ads (text), and compilations such as business directories are all protected material that we should be concern with. Another type of material that is considered protected is

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