IP rights and their importance in the creative industries.

Patents? Copyright? Trademarks? You must know the rights which include all this stuff. They are everywhere in the creative industries. It's something that you mustn't avoid. But what is it? How to work with it? How to keep your work, your creativity? Let me give you some parts of the answer

IP? What is this?

According to the United Kingdom government the Intellectual property is Having the right type of intellectual property protection helps you to stop people stealing or copying :

• the names of your products or brands
• your inventions
• the design or look of your products
• things you write, make or produce

They add that you must create physically something unique to count it as IP. An idea alone doesn't count as IP.

How to make some research about it

Today the IP rights are manage by one agency of the United Nations : World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

How to live with it?

If you go visit the website of the WIPO you will see that there is a lot of rights and a lot of rules. So the question is : Does the IP's right stifle the creativity?
The response is, I think, that you must learn to live with it to be able to fully express your creativity. So it goes through knowing the rights, the rules and the consequences to avoid them and to know how to protect ourselves with it. Because the real benefit of the IP rights is that you can protect correctly your work for that nobody can steal it to you.
So you have to work with a big attention of it because the companies of these industries are sticklers for their own identities and they don't want any problems with the ones of the other.

What rights for you or your company

With IP rights you can preserve your identity and your image. It means that nobody can steal your products or the identity of your work. For example, nobody can create a software and said that Sony creates it to better sell it. Also, it means that nobody can use your work to make profits or to a wrong use of it. For example, if someone takes your work in purpose of racist stuff or criminal stuff you can use the IP rights to stop him.

What happened if you infringe the rules?

There is a lot of different consequences of if you infringe the rules, but this paragraph is to raise the fact that IP rights can be use as profits purpose. Because if someone steals your work you can claim him money (that can reach a big amount of money). But also you can tell him that you want to sell him your rights. Be reassure you won't sell your work or you company, you will sell him the fact that he can use your brand, work or whatever you want in link with IP according to some rules that you will decide in a contract with the other side.