Copyright Infringement

When you steal our fine, Shmoopy prose. It's all copywritten, so that'd be copyright infringement.

As they say in Hollywood, we'll have our lawyers call your lawyers.

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Finance: What are trademark v copyright?12 Views

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finance a la shmoop what's the difference between a trademark and a

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copyright all right well here's that little TM thingy for trademark or an R [Trademark and registered trademark symbols appear]

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in a circle for registered trademark and here's that little C thing for copyright

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so there's a starter the letters and well the artwork are different both are

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assets if a company owns them shmansi assets called intellectual property

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trademarks and copyrights are basically legal boats like the mode around a [Man discussing trademarks and copyrights]

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castle filled with sharks in the human crap nobody else can use those

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trademarks and/or copyrights without permission and that permission usually [Permission slip appears]

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comes with a check written from the user to the company who owns them so that's

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how they're the same but what about how are they different mm-hmm all right well

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here's the quick and dirty answer copyrights protect artistic or written

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work trademarks protect goods and services if it's a copyright you want [Trademark definition appears on dollar bill]

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well you'll register for one through the US Copyright Office you know them well

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here at shmoop or if a trademark is more what you're after you'd hop on over to

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the u.s. trademark office so your manifesto on the importance of brushing [Manifesto appears]

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your teeth yeah you'll want to copyright that maybe actually invented a new

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toothpaste that makes your breath smell fresh like strawberries yeah trademark [Strawberry toothpaste appears]

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that wrote a new piece of music you're hoping to sell on iTunes

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yeah copyright that pedaling your new music software trademark okay yeah so

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well let's come back to shmoop what about us our world-beating learning [Shmoop video appears]

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guides and courses our original written material so yeah we copyright them

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but our snazzy logo and the company itself yeah trademarked there now you

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speak copyright but we still speak student

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