Intellectual Property Rights and copyright> Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are rights awarded to creators of intellectual and creative work. Examples of such works include inventions, books, illustrations, and trade names. These rights are:

patents;
trade marks;
copyright;
design rights;
passing off; and
the law of confidential information.

IPR resources

Scotland's Information: use our map to find libraries, museums and archives
Research Collections Online: subject strength listings for the larger general libraries in Scotland
Scottish Library and Information Resources: find a library, librarian, museum or archive
Scottish Distributed Digital Library: digital collections with Scottish themes
Scottish Collections Network: an online catalogue of collections held in Scottish libraries, museums and archives
Co-operative Information Retrieval Network for Scotland: a one-stop shop for finding materials held in the collections of many libraries in Scotland

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flickr: SLIC and CILIPS image archive
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