Integrated circuits are an industrial product, and in the minds of the public, they have nothing to do with copyright. However, in today's era of information society, they are indeed connected. This connection is a recent development in intellectual property law. 1. The principle of originality enters the field of integrated circuit protection. Traditional intellectual property law can be divided into two parts: copyright law and industrial property law. Integrated circuits are an industrial product. In the public mind, they have nothing to do with copyright. . However, in today's era of information society, they are indeed connected. This connection is a recent development in intellectual property law. 1. The principle of originality enters the field of integrated circuit protection. Traditional intellectual property law can be divided into two parts: copyright law and industrial property law. It can also be divided into three parts: copyright law, patent law and trademark law. They have respectively established basic legal principles suitable for themselves based on the different objects they protect. Copyright law requires that protected works be original. Specifically, the copyright law does not require the creation of works protected by it, regardless of the quality of the work, or whether there is an identical work before it, as long as the work is completed by the author's independent intellectual work and is not plagiarized from others. Works can be protected by copyright law. It is under such principles that the creation of literary, artistic and scientific works can be rich and colorful. In contrast, patent law imposes stricter requirements on novelty, inventiveness and practicality for the technology it protects. Among them, inventiveness requires that the protected technology has a certain level of creativity, that is, it cannot be an obvious result that can be inferred by an ordinary skilled person from the existing technology. It can be seen from this that technology without a certain level of creativity cannot be protected by patent law. The above is the integrated circuit copyright