what's tha difference between a trademark & copyright...please???

Answer 1

Copyrights can be obtained for things of an artistic nature. This includes, of course, poetry, films, sculptures, music, fiction, etc. But can also include things that may not necessarily seem "artistic" in the general sense of the word. Copyrights can also be obtained for advertising copy, games, software programs and blueprints, to name just a few.

Trademarks can be names of products or services, logos, slogans, packaging and even sounds and smells. In essence, a trademark can be almost anything that is used to identify a particular product or service. Registering a trademark grants the owner exclusive rights to the mark within the specified industry.

Of course, it's necessary to research the mark comprehensively prior to filing to ensure that there is no possibility of infringing upon another party.

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!

Answer 2

In my words:

Trademarks identify the SOURCE of goods . This can be a name (Nike), a logo (swoosh), a color (John Deere green), a sound (Harley Davidson motor), etc. Basically its something that tells you the source of goods. Copyrights on the other hand protect original works from reproduction by non-authors by creating a reproductive right in the form of a license. It's much more complicated than that, but thats an easy way of looking at it. Think of the trademark in a Nike shoe being the swoosh, but that an art display of a sculpture made from shoes would be copyrighted. Also, copyright rights exist by creating the original work, but trademark rights are only established through use in commerce. Neither require federal registration, but it is much better to have it than not. The little symbols that people are posting about are not needed to have protection! The only thing is that to use some of them you must have federal registration- but you have common law protection without the federal registration and use of the symbol. The symbol only serves to put competitors on notice that the mark or copyright is claimed.


From the US Patent & Trademark Office:

A Trademark covers the protection of a unique name covering a business (service mark) or a product (trademark). A Copyright protects "original works of authorship" that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. Copyrightable works include the following categories:

Literary Works
Musical Works, including any accompanying words
Dramatic Works, including any accompanying music
Pantomimes & Choreographic Works
Pictorial, Graphic, & Sculptural Works
Motion Pictures & Other Audiovisual Works
Sound Recordings
Architectural Works

These categories should be viewed broadly. For example, computer programs and most "compilations" may be registered as "literary works"; maps and architectural plans may be registered as "pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works."

Answer 3

think of a copyright like a bundle of sticks...a lot of little laws make up a copyright, and a trademark could be considered one of them. I should know more about this than I do since I just went over it with my lawyer a week ago. As far as I can tell, though, a cpyright is much more official and protects the user more effectively. I believe a trademark doesn't have to be registered even, but I may be wrong. I suppose you could look it up on the internet as the other person suggested, even if rather harshly.

Answer 4

trademark, trade mark, ™ or ® is a distinctive sign of some kind which is used by an organization to uniquely identify itself, its products and/or services to consumers, and to distinguish the organization and its products or services from those of other organizations. A trademark is a type of industrial property which is distinct from other forms of intellectual property.

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally "the right to copy" an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. The symbol for copyright is ©, and in some jurisdictions may alternatively be written as either (c) or (C).

Answer 5

A trademark is a legal registration of a symbol or slogan usually associated with a commercial product. A copyright applies to written material, which could be ad copy, or a short story, novel, or newspaper/magazine article, or any other intellectual property, like a movie script, or a photograph.

Answer 6

A Trademark is usually a symbol representing something. A copyright is a protection of intellectual property such as original stories, films, etc.

Answer 7

trademarks defend your sort it is generally a tag, sort or sort-call, and copyrights protects the product (sort, layout, psychological attempt ,and so on) occasion: McDonald's is the trademark, the vast Mac is a product that has copyrights very own by using McDonald's, so no different eating place could have the McDonald's call without procuring the franchise neither sell a large Mac it is an invention secure by using copyright or a patent.

Answer 8

trademarks have a little "tm" subscript by them, and copyrights have a circle-c subscript.

Hey, here's an idea....look it up...you have the internet, idiot!