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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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