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• Respect for other's Feelings: One must always be considerate and mindful of others’ feelings
on sensitive topics such as politics or religion.
• Try to Monitor Comments: One should prefer to monitor comments so as to maintain the
quality of comments on a personal post/site.
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
Intellectual property is a term that refers to the legal property rights of a person over creations
of his/her mind, both artistic and commercial. Under Intellectual Property Rights, the owners of
the property are granted exclusive rights over their creation. These creations could be artistic,
musical or literary in nature.
Intellectual Property Rights ensure that the creator’s hard work is safe and protected from any
unauthorised copying or piracy.
Types of IPR
There are three main types of Intellectual Property Rights:
• Copyright: It is the legal right given exclusively to the person for a fixed number of years to
publish, record the literary, artistic, or musical use of his or her work. Copyright of work lasts for
70 years or even after the death of the originator.
• Patent: It is the right that gives an inventor the complete right to make, use, and sell his or her
work for a specific time period. Usually, the validity period for a Patent is 20 years.
• Trademark: It is a symbol or word legally registered or established and used as representing
a company or a product. Trademarks help to protect brand names, logo, and design of the
product. The validity period for a Trademark is 10 years and can be renewed after that.
Measures to Protect IPR
We can take the following measures to protect IPR:
• Don’t share your business ideas with others.
• Have a detailed drawings, descriptions, plans and records that can prove it is your creation.
• As soon as you have a business name and logo for your idea, you should register those
Trademarks right away.
Plagiarism
It refers to the usage or imitation of the language and thoughts of another person projected as
one’s own original work. It is considered a crime or fraudulent act.
Plagiarism as described by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is as follows:
• To steal and pass-off ideas or words of another as one’s own.
• To use another’s production, without crediting the source.
• To commit literary theft.
• To present as new and original, an idea or product derived from an existing source.
Ways to Prevent Plagiarism
• Use Citation—Citation refers to acknowledging the original writer and the source from where
the material has been taken.
• Rephrase the matter.
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