Copyright Trademarkvs.

What Does it Protect?

C ROriginal works of authorship, such asbooks, articles, songs, photographs,sculptures, choreography, soundrecordings, motion pictures, and otherworks.

Author’s life plus 70 more years.

Any word, phrase, symbol, and/or designthat identifies and distinguishes thesource of the goods of one party fromthose of others.

Requirements for Protection

Term of Protection

Rights Granted

A work must be original, creative and fixed in a tangible medium.

A mark must be distinctive (i.e., that is, it must be capable of identifying the source of a particular good).

For as long as the mark is usedin commerce.

Right to control the reproduction,making of derivative works, distributionand public performance and display ofthe copyrighted works.

Right to use the mark and to preventothers from using similar marks in a waythat would cause a likelihood-of-confusionabout the origin of the goods or services.