Intellectual property is defined to "creations of the mind" a monopoly which is assigned to inventions, literary, things you write or produce so enable to earn recognition or financial benefit from what they invent or create. Turkey Intellectual property rights are protected by the Turkish law. Turkish Intellectual property system has several goals:
- It increases capacity to invent and create new works in the field of technology.
- It improves an environment in which creativity and innovation.
- The encourage of intellectual property accelerates economic growth, creates new jobs and industries, and improve the quality of life.
- Industrial property avoids unfair competition.
Intellectual property, primarily composed of two parts. Those are Industrial Property and Copyright and it look likes the following tree structure.
What are Industrial Property Rights?
Industrial Property Right, refers to by inventor or creator demands to protection for their through one of four methods such as patent, trademark, industrial design and geographical indication registrations.
What is Copyrights?
Copyright defined as protection for original works such as book, music, video, software or movie to the use publishing, distribution or reproduction. The work should be original due to qualify for copyright protection. Originality means under copyright law a work was created uniquely and it was not copied from others. The creators of works protected by copyright have certain basic rights under Turkish copyright law. Such as;
- its reproduction whatever all kind of forms,
- its publishing,
- its translation to other languages,
- its adaptation such as from a novel to a movie.
What are benefits of copyright ?
Copyright increases activities of owner of works so many works can more easily develop and become prominent in the world. This, in turn, provides that improve the culture, knowledge and entertainment also economic and social development in the world.
Technology has expanded hugely so a work can be known through forms of communication the world over. Correspondingly, in Turkey copyright laws aimed at preventing unpermitted access to and use of creative works on the Internet.
If you need to register a trademark or patent for your business in Turkey you should go to an office such as
Sistem Patent A.Ş where you can also register other documents related to intellectual property rights. If you have problems with your work(s) during the procedure of
intellectual property in Turkey, you should know that your rights will be protected with use of its international network and attorneys since contact with us. You can communicate one of our Turkish attorneys on
contact page.