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=Introduction=

Intellectual Property rights is what protects the creator of the content of owning their own work. Someone who goes out and buys a book owns the book as an object, but the book in a whole belongs to the author because of being able to patent work from imagination and intellectual thoughts. Intellectual property rights were invented to help people own their work, profit from their efforts, and so that it won't be claimed as someone else's work.

The issue usually that arises is whether these laws will always be able to assist people in calling their work their own. Whether there's enough laws to make sure that work won't be stolen, and if there's more than one form of legal protection in order to own work. Is there even a possible way of knowing which law is right for a particular type of work?

Some of the methods for establishing that something belongs to someone as their work will be covered. There are several laws in both North America and Canada that will be listed and perhaps briefly mentioned in some of the other sections. Piracy is a large issue that mainly disrupts the music and video making industries.