**4. Intellectual property rights**

Intellectual property rights are the legal rights granted to a person to protect the interests of innovators and creators over their creations. It's a privilege granted to creators over their creative efforts for a set period of time [1].

There are two types of intellectual property rights:

i.Copyright and rights related to copyright

ii.Industrial property

#### **4.1 Copyright and rights related to copyright**

Copyrights are legally described term used to describe the rights of authors of literary and artistic works. Copyrights also include the rights over books and other writings, musical compositions, paintings, sculpture, computer programs and films, for a minimum period of 50 years after the death of the author. Copyright protection extends solely to expressions and does not embody concepts, procedures, and strategies of operation or mathematical ideas per se. Copyright may or may not be available for a variety of objects such as titles, slogans, or logos, reckoning on whether they contain sufficient authorship.

Under copyright, there are two categories of rights:

