Does anyone know of a conference or symposium that is directed towards the security of intellectual property?

Documentation is the key, proof that you came up with the idea may not be enough, it go on in court for a long time. Always get a patent or copy rights.

Intellectual property rights is a legal field that refers to creations of the mind, musical, literary, and artistic works; inventions; and symbols, names, images, and designs used in copyrights, tr...

Intellectual creations can be claimed as a property by a person who is the author or creator.

As long as you don't plan to sell it using any readily available image is fine. You only get in trouble if you take someone's image and try to make money off of it.

Your work is covered by US copyright laws when it is in tangible form, as soon as it is saved to a hard drive, printed etc (and you are not required to put the copyright notice on your pages, some ...

Your friend can only go after the TV show if he can prove that they got the idea for the show by reading his posting. This is virtually impossible to do.

Patents don't really protect fashion designs. A more common approach to protect such intellectual property is trademark registration for a specific namebrand of clothing. This helps differen...

> Something I read that Stephen King does in order to cheaply copyright his work is mailing it to himself. this method has no legal standing whatsoever, and Stephen King can certainly afford ...