Copyrights In Cyprus

Understanding intellectual property

The term intellectual property refers to the property rights of a physical or legal person over creations of the human mind, for example, an invention, a design, a symbol or artistic works. Such rights are many times protected by local and European laws, regulations, directives, as well as by bilateral agreements.

The protection of intellectual property offers to the owner of the rights the exclusive benefit of utilising their creation and the advantage of taking legal steps in case of unauthorised use of their creation by third parties.

There are four main types of intellectual property, those being patents, trademarks, intellectual designs and copyrights. On this article we will focus on the latter and lay an overview of what is a copyright and how it can be protected.