Copyright is the protection of an expression of an idea.
Copyright applies to pretty much anything; If there's a file format for it, (music, video, text, graphic) it's copyrightable.
Trademark is the protection of anything that is commonly associated and synonymous with particular company or individual E.G company logos, slogans, names.
Patent is the protection of anything that can be invented or designed, process or object; in the UK there ae strict definitions on what processs and objects are patentable.. I don't think it works that way in the US.
Off to look up the particulars... for the record, I have studied this at college.. so hope I got most of it right! :D |
