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A copyright is protection for written or artistic intellectual property, while a trademark protects goods or services.
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Transcript
- 00:00
finance a la shmoop what's the difference between a trademark and a
- 00:06
copyright all right well here's that little TM thingy for trademark or an R [Trademark and registered trademark symbols appear]
- 00:12
in a circle for registered trademark and here's that little C thing for copyright
- 00:18
so there's a starter the letters and well the artwork are different both are
- 00:23
assets if a company owns them shmansi assets called intellectual property
Full Transcript
- 00:29
trademarks and copyrights are basically legal boats like the mode around a [Man discussing trademarks and copyrights]
- 00:33
castle filled with sharks in the human crap nobody else can use those
- 00:38
trademarks and/or copyrights without permission and that permission usually [Permission slip appears]
- 00:43
comes with a check written from the user to the company who owns them so that's
- 00:47
how they're the same but what about how are they different mm-hmm all right well
- 00:52
here's the quick and dirty answer copyrights protect artistic or written
- 00:56
work trademarks protect goods and services if it's a copyright you want [Trademark definition appears on dollar bill]
- 01:02
well you'll register for one through the US Copyright Office you know them well
- 01:06
here at shmoop or if a trademark is more what you're after you'd hop on over to
- 01:10
the u.s. trademark office so your manifesto on the importance of brushing [Manifesto appears]
- 01:15
your teeth yeah you'll want to copyright that maybe actually invented a new
- 01:20
toothpaste that makes your breath smell fresh like strawberries yeah trademark [Strawberry toothpaste appears]
- 01:25
that wrote a new piece of music you're hoping to sell on iTunes
- 01:29
yeah copyright that pedaling your new music software trademark okay yeah so
- 01:35
well let's come back to shmoop what about us our world-beating learning [Shmoop video appears]
- 01:38
guides and courses our original written material so yeah we copyright them
- 01:43
but our snazzy logo and the company itself yeah trademarked there now you
- 01:47
speak copyright but we still speak student
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