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The document provides an overview and outline of a lecture on intellectual property. It discusses how the lecture will introduce intellectual property rights and cover the different types. It will also examine the origin of intellectual property as tied to human creativity and the growth of intellectual property on national and international levels. Finally, it notes that intellectual property is studied in both law schools and management schools.

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Intellectual Property

Prof. Feroz Ali


Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Lecture - 01
Week 1 summary

An Introduction to Intellectual Property.

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In this series of lectures, we will first look at the basics of intellectual property rights. Is
there a definition for intellectual property, then we look at the different types of rights
that are conferred under intellectual property rights. We will also look at the different
kinds; we have copyright, we have trademarks, we have patents and we have other new
sets of rights as well.

Then we move on to the origin of intellectual property rights. Now, intellectual property
rights is tied to human creativity. So, we look at human creativity, there was a point in
human history where only discoveries were considered to be acts of human endeavor.
Human beings were not attributed with creativity rather they were attributed with the
ability to discover things that were already there.

Later on in human history we found that there was a point in time where we started
looking at human creativity as a product in itself. It was not something that was derived
or it was of divine origin, it was something which human beings made themselves
capable of. So, at that point you will find that the need to protect the works of creativity
also arose.

So, we find that creativity in itself had an impact on the growth and origin of intellectual
property right. Then we move to the growth phase. Now when intellectual property rights
came, they came at a point in history where there was rapid acceptance of the idea. So,
you first find intellectual property rights being accepted by the countries at the national
level, and then we also see movement at the international level. And we will see how this
has now reached a state where there is quite a lot of international law making. That is
happening around intellectual property rights, either in the form of multilateral treaties
like the world trade organization, or in the form of bilateral treaties between countries.

So, the growth again you will see that the growth is a modern phenomenon. And it is tied
to industrial revolution and various other creative endeavors of human beings. And you
will find that the growth has been a steady growth. Intellectual property right as a term
itself as of recent origin, but we find that the term has been accepted and used in recent
times staggering pace. And finally, we look at learning intellectual property.

(Refer Slide Time: 02:52)

Intellectual property is of interest in 2 broad domains of study. There is law, in which


intellectual property rights are treated as a separate subject and it is taught in law
schools. And we also find interest for intellectual property rights in the management
schools, where it figures as a part of an innovation course on innovation or
entrepreneurship or even legal aspects of business.

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