Intellectual Property

My definition of intellectual property would be someone's literary work, pictures, designs which are used in books, novels, poems and websites that are published with their names on the work for everyone to see and use as items that will help them out with the information that they need. The definition that experts use for intellectual property would be, "a work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a manuscript or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc." Examples of intellectual property are novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, drawings paintings, photographs, sculptures, and architectural designs. This concept gets manipulated by people copying their work word for word. The writers aren't getting paid for what people are taking from them, so therefore, it would be considered stealing. Also another example of it being manipulated and shared is if a writer gives one person the permission to use their work, and it ends up getting used my many people that have never even asked for their permission to use the original work.