The legal rights protecting creative works including patents, trademarks, and copyrights from unauthorized use is called?

• A. Intellectual property
• B. Bibliographic instruction
• C. Reader's advisory
• D. Assessment

Answer: (A)

The term that names the legal rights protecting creative works from unauthorized use is intellectual property. Intellectual property is the broad umbrella covering patents for inventions, trademarks for brand identifiers, and copyrights for original creative works. These rights let creators control how their work is used and often provide a way to earn from it. The other terms refer to different library or evaluative concepts (bibliographic instruction helps people locate sources, reader's advisory guides readers to books, and assessment involves evaluating learning or performance), which is why they don’t fit here.