Know your rights! This free event at the London College of Communication gives a basic introduction to the laws of information protection, giving you the basics on how to protect your ideas and make money from them.

Artists, photographers, designers, illustrators, graphic artists, product designers and anyone else who is creative and produces original creative works owns some intellectual property rights in what they create. If you are reading this thinking “that is me!” read on, as this article gives you the basics about intellectual property rights, usually referred to as “IPR”.

There is a form of intellectual property rights (or “IPR”) called “design right” which is related to but lesser known than copyright.

One of the four main types of intellectual property rights (or “IPR”) is “copyright”. This is quite a well known term in artist and design circles but surprisingly is very often a misused term.

An area of intellectual property rights (or “IPR”) which is relevant to a wide range of industries and businesses, including the creative industries is trade marks. Trade marks are essentially brand identities which are exclusive to their owners in relation to the types of goods and/or services which that own sells or provides.