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What is the difference between Copyright, Trademark and Patents? Explain in legal and technical terms with examples.

30 Jul 2026
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Copyright, trademark, and patent are three major forms of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) that protect different types of creations and innovations. In the context of e-commerce and cyberspace, these legal rights encourage innovation, safeguard business interests, and prevent unauthorized use of intellectual assets. Although they all belong to intellectual property law, they differ in their purpose, scope, legal protection, and technical application. Copyright is a legal right granted to the creator of an original literary, artistic, musical, dramatic, or software work. It protects the expression of an idea rather than the idea itself. Under the Copyright Act, 1957 (India), copyright exists automatically once an original work is created and fixed in a tangible medium. Registration is optional but serves as legal evidence in disputes. The copyright owner enjoys exclusive rights to reproduce, publish, distribute, adapt, perform, and communicate the work to the public. In technical terms, copyright protects source code, website content, digital images, videos, e-books, online courses, databases, and multimedia files against unauthorized copying or distribution. For example, if an e-commerce company develops unique website content or a software application, competitors cannot legally copy and publish the same content without permission. Similarly, copying product images or blog articles from Amazon or Flipkart without authorization constitutes copyright infringement. A trademark is a distinctive sign, word, logo, symbol, slogan, design, or combination thereof that identifies the source of goods or services and
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