Facets in detail
1. Intellectual Property Rights:
• Origin, Growth, Objectives, Myths and Reality
2. Intellectual Property : Types
• Patents, Standards, Trademarks, Copyrights
3. Scope of IPR
• General provisions
• Basic principles
4. Valuation of Intellectual Property Rights
• Advantages
• Importance
5. IPR and its impact on Library & Information Centres
6. Controlling copyright infringement
• Concept of Fair use
• Plagiarism
• Open Access and Open Source
7. Acquisition and Management of IPR
8. Scholarly publishing and copyrighting : An Uneasy Relationship
9. Standards concerning the availability, scope and use of IPR with
special reference to Library and Information Centres
10. The impact of IPR in Modern Age
• Digital Library
• Institutional Digital Repository
11. The making of modern Intellectual Property Law
12. The emergence of World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) : Its problems and prospects
13. IPR Scenario in the World and India