{"id":179022,"date":"2022-12-22T06:05:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T06:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/?p=179022"},"modified":"2023-01-18T03:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T03:47:36","slug":"copyright-or-trade-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalvision.co.uk\/intellectual-property\/copyright-or-trade-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Copyright More Important than Trade Marks in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Copyright and trade marks are both important types of intellectual property in the UK. Both provide essential protections for your products or services and provide you with exclusive rights over your intangible assets. Legal protection is vital for any business, and there is no hierarchy of importance unless one type of IP is more advantageous to a particular product or service. However, there are benefits to both copyright and trade marks, which we will discuss in this article.<\/span><\/p>\n

Key Differences Between Copyright and Trade Marks<\/span><\/h2>\n

Copyright and trade marks serve two different purposes concerning intellectual property. <\/span>Copyright protection<\/span><\/a> provides you with exclusive rights over the use of your original work, whereas <\/span>trade marks<\/span><\/a> protect specific identifiers of your brand, such as symbols or logos. Therefore, copyright is more associated with a particular product, whereas trade marks protect your overall business brand.<\/span><\/p>\n

The length of protection between the two types of IP rights is also very different. The length of copyright protection depends on the type of work you are protecting and the length of the creator\u2019s life. For example, copyright protects written or artistic works until 70 years after the author\u2019s death. After this time has passed, anyone in the public domain can use the copyrighted work without permission. On the other hand, trade marks last indefinitely, provided the owner uses them and renews them every ten years. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Trade Mark Essentials<\/div>\n
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The Importance of Copyright<\/span><\/h2>\n

Copyright protection in the UK is an automatic right. This means you do not have to apply to the <\/span>Intellectual Property Office<\/span><\/a> to achieve legal copyright protection. Further, you also obtain this automatic right upon creating your copyrighted work, such as:<\/span><\/p>\n