Intellectual Property in the world of e-learning

     

        A great article in e-learning industry explains what is " intellectual property right", "the necessity of having IP in the world of e-learning" and how to correctly use IP to protect your own work. I summarize some of the key points below

       Intellectually property protects the authors who created the online contents. And the authors will also earn benefits through the commercial action. As the result, people are more willingly to create genuine and creative work online. In other words, Intellectual Property promotes the development and growth of initial online resources created by diverse people. According to the article, there are three main mechanisms in intellectual properties: copy right, patent, and trademark ( Renner, 2015)
           

      Copyright: " copyrights are unique inventions that are crucial to the success of many organizations, institutions or businesses" (Renner, 2015). In order to protect the ownership, the e-learning author can apply copy right symbol to their own work inform other people he or she has the authorization of distributing, reproducing and sharing the work.

      Patent: Patent is to protect the new product and special processes that e-learning practitioner and content developer created (Renner, 2015) . Holding the patent prevents the third party takes advantages (use, sell and make) of such new product.

      Trademark: trademark protects the name, company, and marks of the product.The trademark helps the customers distinguish this product from the other (Renner, 2015 ).

 Reference: Renner, J. (2015, January 21). Intellectual Property Rights In eLearning. Retrieved July 20, 2017, from https://elearningindustry.com/intellectual-property-rights-in-elearning