Intellectual property is “a legal concept which refers to creations of the mind for which exclusive rights are recognized. Under intellectual property law, owners enjoy certain exclusive rights to various intangible assets, such as musical, literary and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols and designs. "In simple terms, it's something you do yourself, self-creation, some examples include music, video, images and much more. Along with creating new material there is also rights to it (how/where it can be used) The creator gets the rights and using the material without their permission can land you in court or you could end up paying a hefty fine Thanks to technology. advance of computers, it is easy to see if someone has copied your material With so many copyright issues in recent years, a new law has been issued, the law is called the Intellectual Property Law [. 1] This law is used to maintain a balance in how the material can be used. This law can only be enforced if the owner agrees to let others have certain rights to their product. creators to ensure they have full rights to their product. The first method is patent protection, another is copyright protection, and the last is trade secret protection. The first method is the most used because it is the safest method to obtain rights. That's why I'm going to focus on this method. The first method called patent protection is the most used method to have secure rights to your material [1]. A designer can obtain a patent for his material if he can offer 17 years of market exclusivity. Many creators use this method because it is the safest and best form of protection available for a... middle of paper ......ntent is fully owned or used with appropriate permission.¬The BroadbandTV team [3] In my opinion, copyright on such small things like an unboxing is too big. I think these changes will only result in suspension for YouTubers who tend to cover songs or re-upload other people's videos. If you didn't create it, keep it off the Internet. After hearing my opinion, if you disagree with me, comment below what you think about intellectual property. Is it okay for the creator to have rights to small materials? Do you think copyright having more impact on YouTube is for good or vice versa? Works Cited http://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/ecommerce/ip_survey/chap3.html http://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/creative-commons.html http://broadbandtvcorp.com/youtubechanges / http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-computer/#IntPro http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/