Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights protects copyrights, trademarks, and patents. The part of the Intellectual Property Rights law that concerns me the most is the protected copyrights. The copyright law grants the author of a work the right to make and distribute copies of that work for a specified period. I actually learned about this when I was training for my position as a Walgreens Photo Specialist. I get so many people who try to reprint copyrighted pictures and I have to explain to those people why Walgreens, not I, can not reprint their copyrighted pictures. Some people really get mad at me and I have to explain that it is not Walgreens policy but the government’s law. Sometimes the copyright law is a pain for me when the costumers start yelling but I tell them if they can get the release formed signed then Walgreens can reprint the pictures. The people don’t ever listen though.