Basic information about copyrights
Copyrights protect expression. Patents protect inventions. Trade secrets protect commercially valuable ideas and information that are kept secret. A copyright may protect the expression of an idea, but it does not protect the idea itself. For that, recourse must be had, if at all, to patent, trade secret or unfair competition laws.
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Copyrights protect creative expression. Trademarks protect brand identifiers. The owner of a copyright has an exclusive right to make certain kinds of uses of an original work of authorship, whether for commercial purposes or not. A trademark owner has an exclusive right to use a particular word, phrase, logo, etc. in commerce to identify the
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A copyright is a kind of intellectual property that protects the owner’s exclusive right to make certain kinds of uses of an original work of authorship.
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