Trademarks and Avoiding Consumer Confusion: Crash Course Intellectual Property #5

CrashCourse

Publisher: Youtube

Published: May 27, 2015

Description:

In which Stan Muller teaches you about our third branch of Intellectual Property;trademarks. A lot of people confuse trademark and copyright. Trademarks apply to things like company and product names and logos;packaging designs;and commercial designs. Basically;copyright protects ideas;but trademarks protect the things that help consumers tell companies apart. This ensures that consumers know the source of the goods they're buying. Without trademarks;it would be really difficult to buy the same product twice;and very easy for unscrupulous companies to pass off fakes and knock-offs of the products you want. I'm telling you;you like trademarks. Thank you so much to all of our awesome supporters for their contributions to help make Crash Course possible and freely available for everyone forever: Pablo Soares;Brad Mohr;Stephen DeCubellis;Ian Gallagher;Vanessa Benavent;Lázaro Clapp;James Hood;Damian Shaw;James;H.G. Redekop;Carl Ayres ***** Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thecrashcourse/ CC Kids: http://www.youtube.com/crashcoursekids;CrashCourse;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gWaAJR5L18