Intellectual Property Definition

The next wave of digital rights management will be the one that has the most impact on businesses, said Michael B. Lipsky, an associate professor at the University of Southern California’s Stern School of Business.The trend is likely to be digital rights, or the protection of intellectual property.For many years, digital rights had to be…

Copyright troll companies have been operating at the forefront of a major new technology to battle online piracy.Trolls use automated software called IPO to take control of a website, steal files and then post them online to try to get people to pay for the pirated content.The technology has also been used to steal millions…

From a copyright perspective, the term “IPO” can refer to the intellectual property rights in a copyrighted work.As a general rule, intellectual property refers to copyrights that are granted to the owner of a particular type of property.For example, a person’s right to write a book is a copyright, and a copyright owner’s right in…

The NFL is in the midst of a new wave of litigation over NFL players’ use of social media.That includes lawsuits filed by the players’ union and others against former players who are seeking compensation from the league for alleged wrongful termination of employment, and a new lawsuit by the NFLPA against former team owners…