Task 6 P6

Copyright: Copyright is the legal right to a piece of work that you make whether it be a poem, book, song and so on. Copyright lasts the whole duration of the artists life and then 70 years after in the United Kingdom and United States, however certain things such as photographs only have copyright over them for 25 years. So what does it actually do? Well, in summary copy right does exactly what it say's in the title, it prevents people the right to copy your work, or any other's original piece of creativity.

Trademark: A trademark is a signature or a recognizable symbol/design which represents or identifies a company, team any kind of source. A trademark doesn't necessarily belong to a business organization, it could also be a single individual if he designed him itself. In business companies for example you will find the trademark on everything related whether it be packaging, voucher or even the company building itself. Much like football, your team's jersey will have their badge a.k.a their trademark on itself, the stadium and everything related to the team. 

Some differences between the two: Like discussed previously copyright lasts the duration of the artist or author's life and 70 years after whereas trademark lasts an unlimited amount of time as long as the owner renews it every 10 years and continues to use it. Another difference is that where as copyright is automatic and free of charge with trademark you have to pay maintenance fees and if you don't you could lose the right of ownership to it. And lastly an obvious difference is that copyright is in place to protect author's, artists and any creative professional where as trademarks are often for business' or product owners.

Intellectual property: Intellectual property covers the side of plagiarism. Plagiarism is when you take somebody else piece of work and pass it off or claim it to be your own. An example of this is for example this is as if somebody was to take these exact word I am writing now and try to use it as their own that would be them plagiarising my work. So if I was to be a designer and I made a new design I would automatically gain the intellectual property of that design (unless I was working for a company and made it for them) and therefore I am protected by thieves due to plagiarism.