This document discusses intellectual property, copyright, ethics, and fair use. It defines intellectual property as creations made by human intelligence like inventions, literary works, and artistic works. Copyright is described as a legal right giving ownership over literary or artistic creations. The document outlines what types of works can and cannot be covered by copyright and discusses the World Intellectual Property Organization which works to develop and protect intellectual property internationally. It concludes with a description of fair use and the four factors that must be considered to make limited use of copyrighted works.

1. Intellectual
Property/Copyright/
Ethics
Natalia Silva and Joaquin Rodriguez.

2. Intellectual Property (IP)
 Refers to creations made by human intelligence.
 For example: Inventions, literary and artistic works, names, images, etc.
 There are two categories of intellectual property:
 Industrial Property: Inventions, trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic
indications of source.
 Copyright: Literary and artistic works.

4. Copyright
 It is a legal right that gives ownership to a person
or a group of people over literary or artistic
creations.
 The importance of Copyright is that it assures you
the protection of your own creations, this way it
would be legally punished if someone steals your
works without giving you the credit, making them
their own.
 There have been established certain regulations
about the duration of copyright among literary
works of an author.

5. Copyright
What can be covered by copyright
 Literary Works
 Novels
 Poems
 Films
 Paintings
 Musical
Compositions
 Choreography
 Drawings
 Sculptures
 Maps
 Advertisements
 Architecture
What can’t be covered by copyright
 Facts
 Ideas
 Recipes
 Blank forms
 Stock literary
devices
 Works from the
federal
government
 Names, titles or
short phrases

6. Ethics
Ethics is a philosophic term that is
related to the moral principles of
human society, evaluating and
differing the good from the bad,
right and wrong, etc.

7. The World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO)
 WIPO is an agency created by the United Nations that works on developing an accessible
intellectual property system, which rewards creativity, encourages innovation and contributes
to economic development by safeguarding the public interest.
 The organization’s headquarters are located in Geneva, Switzerland and it’s director is Francis
Gurry.
 WIPO was established in 1967 controlling and protecting IP with the collaboration of other
different organizations.
 This agency has several specific goals related to intellectual property.

8. Fair Use
1. Purpose: You’ve got to determine what is the
objective and the use you are giving to the
work.
2. Nature: Evaluate the work you want to use, it
can be fictional or factual and think about the
worth of it’s copyright depending on it’s
content.
3. Amount: Evaluate the amount of information
used from the work and try to use only the
necessary.
4. Effect: Think about the impact that using the
work would produce to it’s creator (for
example in a financial aspect).
It allows certain users to use
copyrighted material but only
if before they are evaluated
and approved by some settled
criteria. There are four
important factors of Fair Use.

10. Thank You