What is the Constitutional authorization for the establishment of patent rights and copyrights?

Assignments for Week #2 – Answers – Intellectual Property Law

Q#1 – What is “intellectual property” and how is it different from tangible property?

Q#2 – What are the four forms of intellectual property

Q#3 – What is the Constitutional authorization for the establishment of patent rights and copyrights?

Q#4 – What is the Constitutional authorization for the establishment of trademark rights?

Q#5 – Why are intellectual property rights particularly important in the media business?

Q#6 – What is the difference between a property right and a personal right?

Q#7 – What happens to the copyrights in a musical work when the composer dies?

Q#8 – What happens to the privacy rights of an individual when that individual dies?

Q#9 – What is the key factor in the difference between law and ethics? Why is it so important?

Q#10 – List and explain the two types of jurisdiction that a court must have in order to have the power to decide any given case.