What is the differents between trade mark and copy rights?
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Copyright protects original works of expression, such as novels, fine and graphic arts, music, audio recordings, photography, software, video, cinema, and choreography by preventing people from copying or commercially exploiting them without the copyright owner's permission.
Copyright laws specifically do not protect names, titles or short phrases. That's where trademark law comes in. Trademark protects distinctive words, phrases, logos, symbols, slogans, and any other devices used to identify and distinguish products or services in the marketplace.
There are, however, areas where both trademark and copyright law may be used to protect different aspects of the same product. For example, copyright laws may protect the artistic aspects of a graphic or logo used by a business to identify its goods or services, while trademark may protect the graphic or logo from use by others in a confusing manner in the marketplace. Similarly, trademark laws are often used in conjunction with copyright laws to protect advertising copy. The trademark laws protect the product or service name and any slogans used in the advertising, while the copyright laws protect the additional creative written expression contained in the ad.
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35 yrs exp in adv
Quite simply, a trademark is a corporate symbol or other identifying graphical device. Traditionally a logo or picture that represents the company, a product, or a service. It can be protected by filing some basic forms with the US PTO or United States Patent and Trademark Office, on-line for $275. and it can take up to 18 months to get one: http://www.uspto.gov/
A copyright can also be applied for online with the US Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov/
It protects the intellectual property rights of anything from books, songs, artwork or other original creations.
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Let me put it very simple
Copy rights: Has all the clauses and laws related to a product or information. It prohibits from some one copying your product (may be a novel, graphics, web designs, etc..esp used for information related products)
Trademarks: These are logos and symbols.
example: If you write a book and take few lines from others with out their permision (and if that passage is copy righted) it is infringement of copyrights
If you write a book on your own but uses some publishers logo (maybe wiley, kogen or some one else) that is infringement of trandemark
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