Intellectual Property
Isriya Paireepairit
Blognone Tech Day 2.0
28 October 2006

Intellectual
เกี่ยวกับปัญญา

Property
ทรัพย์สิน

Intellectual+Property
ทรัพย์สินทางปัญญา

“IP”

Types of IP
(For Today Talk)
• Copyright
• Patent
• Trademark

More Types of IP
• Geographic Indication
• Trade Secret
• Plant Variety Protection
• so on...

Copyright

ลิขสิทธิ์

“Right to Copy”

Copyright History
• 1986 Berne Convention
• Thailand as well

For Creative Works

All Rights Reserved

Which “Right”?
• To Copy
• To Sell those copy
• Perform/Display
• Create Derivative
• To Sell or Assign these Rights to others

Automatically at
Creation

No Need to be
Declared

Period is varied for each
country

Become
“Public Domain”
After that

Patent

สิทธิบัตร

For Method/Process

Need to Apply

Trademark

TM

เครื่องหมายการค้า

Unique Identity

For Visual Only

IP in IT World

Software

1

Source Code is
“Creative Works”

“Copyright”

“All Rights Reserved”

Public Domain Copyright
No Right All Rights

“Some Rights”
• Owner give some condition
of use.
• Anyone can use without
asking permission if
conditions are matched.

License

“สัญญาอนุญาต”

GPL BSD
MPL
LGPL
Apache
CDDL

Copyleft
Free Software
Public Domain Copyright
Open Source
No Right Some Rights All Rights

2

Algorithm is
“Method”

“Patent”

Need to Apply

Depend on each
Country

Thailand - No

EU - No

Rest of the World - No

USA - Yes

Case Study
MP3

Source Code
Copyright by
LAME team
“Open Source”
Some rights

Source Code Algorithm
Copyright by
LAME team
Registered by
“Open Source”
Thomson/Fraunhofer
Some rights

3

Software Name/Logo
is
“Visual Identity”

“Trademark”

Case Study

Debian-Firefox
Issue

Source Code Name and Logo
Copyright by
Mozilla Foundation
“Open Source”
Firefox
Registered by
Some rights
Mozilla Foundation

Debian’s Solution

Source Code Name and Logo
Copyright by
Mozilla Foundation
“Open Source”
IceWeasel
Some rights

Creative Commons

Success of Open Source

Software World
Public Domain BSD LGPL GPL Copyright
No Right Some Rights All Rights

Open Source Licenses
bring convenience

CC is the same thing
for other creative works

Set of licenses
Ready for use

Creative World
Public Domain CC#1 CC#2 CC#3 Copyright
No Right Some Rights All Rights

So we see

Free Content World

Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Flickr