Andrew
March 6, 2007

Intellectual Property

What is intellectual property? Intellectual property is the right to protect inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names, and images that come from the mind. Intellectual property laws give individuals the exclusive rights to patent his/her own ideas. In the article "Copyright Crusaders" by: David Gibson, David Gibson talks about three claimants who all copyrighted their versions of the same idea. The idea was the "footprints in the sand." The poem is a soft-focus retrospective that imagines life as a walk on the beach with Jesus, a pilgrimage traced by two sets of footprints, the Savior's and the narrator's. Further more the article talks about these three claimants battle over royalties to these exclusive rights. In another article called "Hello Cleveland" by: James Surowiecki, James Surowiecki introduces a small town band trying to make it big in the music business. He discusses how it has become so difficult......

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Title: Intellectual Propert
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