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CHAPTER XIIIIntellectual Property1. IntroductionWithin the Mexican legal system “inventions and creations” enjoy, as in almost all othercountries, a special protection for their titleholders, derived from Section XV of Article89 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, which can be summarizedas “granting exclusive privileges for a limited period of time, in accordance with theappropriate law, to authors, discoverers, inventors, or improvers of any branch of industry.”These concessions or privileges establish an exclusive right over such creations orinventions, a right of exclusivity that has required, given its complexity, a specific branchof the law that applies to the development and protection of the various legal formsencompassing different types of creations.The aim of this chapter is to help readers to understand such branch, by explainingthe characteristics, the protection, and the legal scope of intellectual propertyrights.2252. CopyrightCopyright can be considered as recognition by the State of every creator of literary orartistic works, and implies for him/her the enjoyment of exclusive prerogatives and privilegesboth personal (a moral right) and economic (an economic right). Such prerogativesand privileges are included in specific protection granted to the works from themoment that they are affixed to a material support, which is to say when they can beperceived by the senses, regardless of their merit, use, or form of expression.The aforementioned protection does not require registration or documentation of anykind. Nor is the fulfillment of any formality required; only the materialization of the workis necessary inasmuch as the work is a personal, original, and new expression of one ormore natural persons called authors.