Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Infringement means "violation." Intellectual property rights include patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other legal arrangements that give someone the right to restrict other people's use of some idea (or "concept"). Specific kinds of infringement include software piracy, which is one kind of copyright infringement, as is pirating audio or video recordings. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.