If you take a photograph, make up a poem, or invent a product, then by default the copyright belongs to you.
The problems arise when others do what is known as passing off. People try and do to use your trademark, steal your ideas. Protection of these ideas are known as intellectual property. Design Rights, Patents, Trademarks are all types of IP
Further down the line if a person or company steals (purposely or inadvertently) your rights are safe.
Design Rights - this relates the to LOOK of a product aesthetically
Patent - relates to a new invention which has not been done before
Trademark - These are signs which identify the origin of goods or services and these can be registered include words, logos, shapes, sounds or even smells.
If you need to get protected or protect your copyrights seen a reputable design rights/patents/trademarks lawyer
The problems arise when others do what is known as passing off. People try and do to use your trademark, steal your ideas. Protection of these ideas are known as intellectual property. Design Rights, Patents, Trademarks are all types of IP
Further down the line if a person or company steals (purposely or inadvertently) your rights are safe.
Design Rights - this relates the to LOOK of a product aesthetically
Patent - relates to a new invention which has not been done before
Trademark - These are signs which identify the origin of goods or services and these can be registered include words, logos, shapes, sounds or even smells.
If you need to get protected or protect your copyrights seen a reputable design rights/patents/trademarks lawyer