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How to Protect Intellectual Property from Theft

If the title of this article caught your attention, you are at least a person interested in intellectual property objects. At most, you create such objects yourself!

Whether you want to acquire intellectual property objects or you create them, you should be concerned about the “copyright protection” of this creative work. It does not matter what the work is: a book, a painting, a song, an audio or video composition, or a business idea embodied in a real product of scientific, engineering or creative activity.

Creating something new is not enough. You must be able to confirm your copyright in your creation!

Who was first?

You have most likely heard the long-running debate over who invented radio first. In Russia, people believe it was Alexander Popov, and they even mark Radio Day in his honor on May 7. Europeans, however, name the Italian Guglielmo Marconi as the creator of the first wireless communication, who made a similar discovery at about the same time.

It is no longer possible to establish precisely who was first. But since Marconi was the first to announce and patent his invention, most of the world considers him the author. His name, not Alexander Popov’s, will go down in history as the progenitor of radio communication. This well-known story once again shows how important it is to declare your copyright and be able to confirm it right away. And there are thousands of such examples.

How to protect copyright

There are two paths we could take to describe intellectual property objects and how to make them inaccessible to plagiarism, or even outright theft.

The first path is to stick strictly to legal terminology, and to bury you in chapters with excerpts from the clauses of the relevant laws and their annexes, as well as links to articles by various legal experts on how these laws can be interpreted. But for those who want to save time and use ready recommendations from proven specialists, we offer a second, shorter path.

This path is for those who are not very interested in the confirmation technology, but are interested in the result: confidence that their intellectual property will be reliably protected. That is, with the ability to prove this fact, including before courts. And if the intellectual product needs to be commercialized or its rights transferred, both property and copyright, the ability to fully receive the benefit due.

Our qualified lawyers have already confirmed this path, and many of our authors have followed it, so we offer it to you as the simplest and most reliable. Creating a new intellectual product is difficult and full of obstacles, but registering copyright in it is no less laborious and costly. But there is no other way.

So, to have a sufficient legal basis for protecting your copyright, you must first publish your work, in whatever form it exists. The fact of first publication or disclosure means your right to the work, even without obtaining a copyright certificate. This is stated by copyright law, in many countries. True, there are subtleties about what counts as publication and what the audience must be. But these are also solvable.

First Exchange of Intellectual Products

So how can you legally confirm that a work was published to a sufficient audience? It turns out this is quite simple — just use the service of registering it on our international internet portal for the protection and commercialization of intellectual property EXIP. The registration can come with a letter confirming the fact of first disclosure of the copyright object. This fully complies not only with the copyright protection laws of many countries, but also agrees with the more “authoritative” Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, ratified by 78 countries, including Ukraine and Russia.

Obtaining such a confirmation letter takes very little time, and once you have it, you can sleep soundly, reliably protected from various “intellectual burglars”. Who knows, perhaps if Albert Einstein had not worked as an employee of a patent office in his youth, and if someone other than him understood the theory of relativity, its author might have been a completely different person!