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'Is confidential information a type of property, the benefit of which can be assigned by the 'owner'? Can the rights to control the release if confidential information be described as intellectual property rights?' In broad terms, an intellectual property right is one of the recognized subjective rights. The legal object of an intellectual property right differs from other legal objects in that it is incorporeal and intangible but is despite these characteristics of economic value and in contrast to personality rights exist independently without being inextricably attached to a person. In essence, intellectual property denotes the property created by the incorporeal mental labour, activity and creativity of a human being.1 This acknowledgement takes the form of protection by statute under either or both of civil and criminal law but has also developed through common law and equity. Legal protection is termed as negative by which is meant that the law can be...

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