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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ITS CONNECTION WITH CYBERCRIMES

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  By:- Jaya BALLB 2nd Year Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) New Law College Pune, Maharashtra.    What is an Intellectual Property? Intellectual property simply means art or thought of mind which includes new creation, learning, invention, or any kind of discovery by the mankind. There are 2 kinds of property named as Physical property and Intellectual property. Physical property includes the movable as well as the immovable property like house, building, jewellery whereas Intellectual property includes any idea, design or thought of human folk. Intellectual Property rights include rights given to the person to safeguard their intellectual property that is right to keep their ideas, thoughts, design, discovery protected from being inefficiently used by others for their own benefit. This right given to us are of various types which include Trademark, Copyright, Patent. The intellectual property law owes its origin during the 17 th and 18 th Century ...

Cyber Crime in Today's World

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By:- Shreya Garg BALLB 2nd Year Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) New Law College Pune Maharashtra  Millions of computers running on a billion lines of code does sound fancy because it makes our life easier by doing the tasks which could take a long time and resources to get the work done. In short sighted idea it would not seem a big of a problem if your project got deleted somehow you may not notice it just because it was a small task to accomplish but consider a scientist working for a decade on a research or idea and somehow it got deleted or stolen or the data in in project got changed, it would be a disaster considering the work and time he put into it. Even if a harm or felony done on a small scale is harmful and indictable which should not be taken lightly. And all the activities like deleting a project, stealing data, copying data without consent,fraud,cyber extortion,etc are termed as cyber crime. There are many ways for a hacker to commit a crime without leavi...