When a person invents something, there is a risk that others will copy their invention.  To support and promote inventors work and prevent the inventors ideas from being stolen the government established patent laws that protected inventors’ rights. To register for a patent you must go through vigorous steps to prove that the product is worthy of being patented.
What Is A Patent?
A patent is a legal document that protects an invention from being used, copied, or manufactured by anyone other than the inventor.  The invention cannot be used without the …

Copyright protects creative and artistic works and therefore to reproduce the authors work you require permission. Copyright does not only cover written work but also covers drama, music, art, layouts, recordings and broadcast works. The copywriting legislation protects the work during the lifetime of the author plus seventy years. If there are two or more authors of a work then the copyright lasts for 70 years from the death of the last remaining author.
The availability of any work in the public domain where it is freely accessible to the outside …