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Originally Posted by drcoastline
Any copy wright trade mark experts?
Does an image used in business need to be copy righted and trade marked? As an example, Pelicans, Pelican, I assume it is copy righted? As the company Logo is it also trademarked?
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Those would all be trademarks.
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Originally Posted by drcoastline
What protections are afforded by each that one or the other does not afford?
Any ideas on costs to copy right or trademark?
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It costs nothing to register a copy right. And that's what it's worth. A copy right is worthless unless you are protecting something you are willing to spend a LOT of money to defend. I've had hundreds of my photographs plastered on the internet with no attribution and no regard for the fact that I own them. Entire magazine articles that I went to great effort and expense to create have been reprinted on the 'net with no mention of where they came from. It's not worth my time or my money to pursue the thieves. In some instances the articles contain reproduced images from museums and archives that cost me hundreds of dollars to buy one-time rights to. I don't know if the institutions I paid for their use ever pursued the thieves, but I doubt it. Sometime I worry that they will come after
me.