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Legal Protection: TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) |
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Another important multilateral treaty concerned with  intellectual property rights is the TRIPS agreement, which was devised at the inauguration of the Uruguay Round negotiations of the WTO in January 1995. It sets minimum standards for the national protection of intellectual property rights and procedures as well as remedies for their enforcement (enforcement measures include the potential for trade sanctions against non-complying WTO members). The TRIPS agreement has been widely criticized for its stipulation that biological organisms be subject to intellectual property protection. In 1999, 44 nations considered it appropriate to treat plant varieties as intellectual property.
The complete TRIPS agreement can be found on:  http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/t_agm1_e.htm
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Electronic Messaging (E-Mail)
Electronic messages are transmitted and received by computers through a network. By E-Mail texts, images, sounds and videos can be sent to single users or simultaneously to a group of users. Now texts can be sent and read without having them printed.
E-Mail is one of the most popular and important services on the Internet.
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