IP
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Intellectual Property.
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Internet Protocol: a communications protocol for computers connected to a network, especially the internet, specifying the format for addresses and units of transmitted data.
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internet protocol: a code used to label packets of data sent across the internet, identifying both the sending and the receiving computers
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law intellectual property
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Short for Internet Protocol. A protocol that specifies the way data is broken into packets and the way those packets are addressed for transmission.
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See more at TCP/IP
Example Sentences
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Government Accountability Office examined in its recent review of IP and sustainment planning.
From MarketWatch
The company has been working to defend its IP recently, including with a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance regarding its AI video generator.
“And if you don’t refresh the coffers with new IP to create new franchises, at some point you get to Chapter 10 or 11 and people start to move on.”
From Los Angeles Times
For those who create and read fanfic, rewriting stories that aren’t originally yours isn’t wanton IP infringement; they’re an extension of the formative, meaningful texts that, read over and over, feel like they become yours.
From Salon
Seedance's developers were likely to have been aware of potential copyright issues around the use of Western IP and took a risk anyway, says Shaanan Cohney, a computing professor at the University of Melbourne.
From BBC
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