Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction, 2. Mobilization and the Intellectual Property, 3. The Origins of Intellectual Property Rights, 4. Access knowledge of Intellectual Property, 5. Intellectual Property in the tips agreement on international trade, 6. The evolution of property rights in cyber crime, 7. Legal issues in e-commerce.

Intellectual property crime is committed when someone manufactures, sells or distributes counterfeit or pirated goods, such as patents, trademarks, industrial designs or literary and artistic works for commercial gain. Protection of intellectual property rights in cyberspace is one of the key areas faced by knowledge society. Aim of this book is to provide specialised knowledge on the transformation of intellectual property and importance within the knowledge society, changes of the traditional forms of protection of intellectual property rights in the electronic environment, the principles for harmonization, as well as non-legal protection forms thereof. The piracy or counterfeiting of goods such as digital media, luxury fashions, pharmaceuticals, electronic goods, and other manufactured goods. For organized criminals, the crime can be highly profitable and only a small investment is necessary in many cases. Intellectual property crime occurs on a global scale making it more difficult for authorities to contain and prosecute.
Advances in current technologies make it such easier for production and manufacturing of 'knock-off' products and the quality is good enough to make it difficult for consumers to tell the difference. This book is designed for a wide range of audiences like holders of intellectual property rights, academicians, scholars of law, technologists policy-makers, media personals and general public.

College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Science in Criminology

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