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Can someone help me understand
Last post 10-14-2008 11:44 AM by beadgamma. 2 replies.
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  • 08-23-2008 11:26 AM

    • lalaa
    • Joined on 06-07-2008
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    Can someone help me understand

    If you make something out of a magazine like bead and button you cant sell it even though i used different colors? Please help me understand this. Thanks.
  • 08-26-2008 2:07 PM In reply to

    Re: Can someone help me understand

    lalaa

       I think that it has to do with copyright laws.

  • 10-14-2008 11:44 AM In reply to

    Re: Can someone help me understand

    As someone who writes copyrighted material, and patents products, I have taken these excerpts from the USPTO office.  Please check their website at www.USPTO.gov for clarification on any issues regarding your question.

    "Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of “original works of authorship” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished.The copyright protects the form of expression rather than the subject matter of the writing. For example, a description of a machine could be copyrighted, but this would only prevent others from copying the description; it would not prevent others from writing a description of their own or from making and using the machine."

    "A TRADEMARK protects words, names, symbols, sounds, or colors that distinguish goods and services from those manufactured or sold by others and to indicate the source of the goods. Trademarks, unlike patents, can be renewed forever as long as they are being used in commerce."  Typically a trademark is a logo of some sort.

    A PATENT protects a product from being copied.

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