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Most of the information available on intellectual property has a legal focus. Even this blog, which is intended for a business audience, addresses particular legal issues a great deal. That sort of information can be invaluable, but at the same time I am looking to expand a little more into the role that IP plays [...]
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Design patents protect the appearance of a variety of commercial objects. Copyrights protect visual creative works (among other things), such as paintings and sculptures. You may wonder whether copyright and design patent protection overlap or how to you decide which to use.
The Copyright/Design Patent Subject Matter Distinction
Copyrights protect nonfunctional objects. The copyrighted subject matter must [...]
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You may have heard that copyrights arise automatically when you finish a creative work fixed in a tangible form, such as a book or other writing, picture, sculpture, musical recording, videotaped dance or other performance, computer program or website. That is true. However, there is a procedure for registering your copyright with the United States [...]
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If you hire someone to make or design something for you, you might think the copyright would accrue to you. But that is not necessarily true. Copyrights apply to any “work of authorship”- essentially to works of art, such as books, paintings, music, and performances, and to computer programs. Copyrights generally are owned by the [...]
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