This Module will delivered as seminar to
provide an introduction to the overall concept of the protection of
intellectual effort and IT innovation goodwill.
It will provide an understanding of the
requirements for subsistence (or registration) of each intellectual property
right, Intellectual Property Law and the scope of protection provided by each.
However it will also stress, and give
examples of, the co-existence and layering of separate rights in a single work.
It will also highlight the differences
between monopoly rights, anti-copying rights, rights protecting goodwill,
invention and authors moral rights and
the historical context of their development.
