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Intellectual Property: What Are the Differences between Patent, Trademark, and Copyright?

More Than Your Mark

Here’s an easy guide to understanding the differences between copyright, patent, and trademark. Copyrights protect creative works. Whether it’s a book, a piece of music, a sculpture, an architectural drawing, a movie, a fashion design, or even this very article, the intellectual property right in the work itself is a copyright.

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What are the intellectual property rights for startups?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Under copyright protection, startups have the exclusive right to reproduce their works and distribute them to the public. Copyrights also provide startups with the authority to create derivative works based on their original creations. Design patents: Design patents protect novel ornamental designs for an article.

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WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

LexBlog IP

To avoid these issues, religious groups can implement copyright law to prevent all impermissible copying and distribution of the religious works and any derivative works, and therefore maintaining their doctrinal purity. Before turning to other matters though, let me just note something concerning patents and yoga.