Global Info-Rights World-Information.Org shows the problems of a unilateral control of communication systems and the danger of abuse of privacy and the risk to democracy through the misuse of intelligence and information systems. It illustrates the use of disinformation as well as the utilization of new surveillance techniques and the role of psychological operations. World-Information.Org explores the threats to digital human rights and provides an overview of the abuse of the freedom of expression, information and communication. Related search: Global Info-Rights

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Invention According to the WIPO an invention is a "... novel idea which permits in practice the solution of a specific problem in the field of technology." Concerning its protection by law the idea "... must be new in the sense that is has not already been published or publicly used; it must be non-obvious in the sense that it would not have occurred to any specialist in the particular industrial field, had such a specialist been asked to find a solution to the particular problem; and it must be capable of industrial application in the sense that it can be industrially manufactured or used." Protection can be obtained through a patent (granted by a government office) and typically is limited to 20 years.

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