On the surface, intellectual property can be understood as "property right to knowledge", and its premise is that knowledge has the conditions to become legal property. However, the essence of knowledge is an objective and free-flowing information.
Once the knowledge as information is spread, the person who provides this information cannot control this information exclusively. Then the intellectual achievements expressed by these information cannot become the property of the information creator in the legal sense.
The legal system of intellectual property rights has created an unprecedented form of property rights by giving the creators of intellectual achievements the exclusive right to use and transfer.
The reason why the law wants to turn the original free information into the property of the creator is because public policies need to promote the development of science and technology, social progress and protect certain specific interests. Therefore, not all knowledge produces intellectual property rights.
At the same time, the extension of the word intellectual property is constantly changing with the development of society, and intellectual property is also constantly improving.
The Convention on the Establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization issued by the World Intellectual Property Organization 1967 stipulates that "intellectual property rights" include: (1) rights related to literary, artistic and scientific works; (2) The right of performing artists to perform, record and broadcast; (3) About the people's right to strive for inventions in all fields;
(4) the right of scientific discovery; (5) Style right of industrial products; (6) The rights of trademarks, service trademarks, names and marks of manufacturers; (7) The right to stop unfair competition; (8) All other rights arising from intellectual activities in the industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields.