Intellectual property (IP) is not necessarily a priority in the minds of all entrepreneurs. However, the violation of copyrights and other infringements of intellectual property rights could lead to a significant expense, so it is important to know the legal limitations and the possibility of you breaking the law.

In order to avoid Intellectual property issues, you first need to understand what the IP is. An IP can either be protected by trademark, patent, copyright or trade secrecy.

Trademarks
Trademarks are commonly used to protect branding aspects that define brand, goods, services, brand and company, these include brand color, taglines and symbols.

Copyrights
Copyrights focus majorly on original artistic work such as book, music, video, picture, website, computer software. Copyrights laws help address intellectual property issues that arise from utilization or commercialization of non-original work while allowing authors to monetiz Read More