What’s the Difference Between Copyright, Registered Trademarks, Trademarks, Copyleft and Creative Commons?

1. what is
R
CC
and
Bonus:
C
C
TM
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2. I am
Occupation : CREATIVE AT IDFCTRY.COM
Education : The Dutch Academy of Art and Design
Rietveld Academie Amsterdam.
Philosophy : Everything is a chance.
Thinks : Reality is chaos.
Naïeve belief : Everybody is creative.
Motivation : Let’s make better mistakes tomorrow.

3. What do those symbols
mean?
Essentially the symbols all refer to all the same
basic question:
“
What is the legal status of ownership
of a brand, service or product?”
Each of those symbols answers to that question.

4. THE Copyright
symbol
An identification of the owner of the copyright,
either by name, abbreviation, or other designation
by which it is generally known.
It’s FREE to use for any rightfull owner.
It is NOT necessary to register this right*.
*
Note: it’s not even necessary to place the symbol. In most countries,
its automatical claimed when created.
C
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_symbol

6. The trademark
symbol
If you want to claim the rights of a name or logo,
use the TM
(trademark) or SM
(service mark).
It gives notice to the public that the rights are
the claimed.
The use of the TM
or SM
Trademark Symbol is NOT
a legally enforceable trademark*.
*
That makes it different to the registered trademark which
is legally protected.
TM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_symbol

8. THE Registered
trademark symbol
Used to provide notice that the preceding mark
is a trademark or service mark that has been
registered with a national trademark office*.
*
In some countries, including China, it is against the law to use the
registered trademark symbol for a mark that is not officially registered
in any country.
In simple words, it screams: get the f**k away
from my mark, because I will sue anyone who use
my mark without permission.
R
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_symbol

10. Bonus: Copyleft and
Creative Commons (1)
These two are not right claiming, but right sharing.
In short: Copyleft = waive all rights
Creative Commons = some rights
Why? Due to the growing demand for high speed
inovations and sharing of information, copyrights
are not serving mankind but holding it back.
The answer: open soure and crowed source!

11. Bonus: Copyleft and
Creative Commons (2)
Food for thought for critics:
“
If I have seen a little further
it is by standing on the
shoulders of Giants.”
Isaac Newton, february 5, 1676
English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher,
alchemist, and theologian, and is considered by many one of the
most influential people in human history.

12. THE Copyleft
symbol
Copyleft* is a play on the word copyright.
Copyleft is a general method for making a work
free of rights, and requiring all modified and
extended versions of the work to be free as well.
Copyleft is mostly used in relation to software.
*Take notice that the symbol has no legal meaning.
C
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

13. Linux is a leading server operating system,
and runs the 10 fastest supercomputers
in the world. Linux is totally copyleft.
www.linux.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

14. THE Creative Commons
symbol (1)
Creative Commons was invented to create a more
flexible copyright model. In basic it’s replacing
“the all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved”.
There are several copyright-licenses within the
Creative Commons domain. These licenses allow
creators to communicate which rights they reserve,
and which rights they waive for the benefit of
recipients or other creators.
CC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons and http://creativecommons.org/

15. THE Creative Commons
symbol (2)
There are six major licenses:
• Attribution* (CC-BY)
• Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA)
• Attribution No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND)
• Attribution Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
•
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA)
•
Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)
*Attribution= a concept in copyright law requiring an author to be credited
CC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons and http://creativecommons.org/

17. Disclaimer
The information in this document is intended for informational and educational
purposes only, to provide readers better understanding about Graphic design
and corporate design.
all Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.
please respect them.
In this special case: The information contained in this document is intended solely to
provide general guidance on matters of interest for the personal use of the reader,
who accepts full responsibility for its use.
in short: IDFCTRY.COM is not responsible in anyway.