Creative imagination takes hours of hard work to turn into an original piece of artwork. Creating a space where artists feel their artwork gets protected is quintessential to let them explore their talents and earn from them. Copyright is one such tool that protects original creative work like screenplays, books, poetry, music, films, paintings, software code, etc. These copyright laws give any creator the exclusive rights to copy, reproduce or even publicly publish their work for financial gain. Although copyright registration is not mandatory, it is recommended for creators to get their work registered as it symbolizes originality and provides evidentiary value to the creative work. The term of this registration lasts while the creator’s lifetime plus an additional 60 years after his/her death, forbidding anyone to copy and sell their work. After those 60 years, the copyright will come under the public domain for anyone to use it without any restrictions. However, work produced by an employee for his/her company under the tenure of employment can be rightfully claimed as the company’s property. The copyright protection laws are prominent globally, allowing artists to produce phenomenal work. While copyright protection lets the artists rule the entertainment industry, it is the inventors who revolutionize the world

A Patent is one of the most important intellectual property rights which protects an invention for a limited time, allowing the owner to stop others from making, allowing for sale, using, selling, and importing the invention without his/her permission. A patent is an exclusive right granted a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something, or offers a new technical solution to a problem.. Patent grant in exchange requires full technical disclosure of the invention to the public in the patent application. As a patent is the inventor’s property, it can be bequeathed, sold, or licensed. The patentee of a particular country can also stop someone from importing products into that country to avoid possible infringement of his rights. An invention needs to be novel, non-obvious and have some industrial application. The term of a patent is for 20 years from the date of filing of the application, after which it moves to public domain.. Similar to copyright protection, an organization will automatically own a patent if the invention was invented at the workplace and filed during the employee’s term of employment.