Copyright is one of the intricate topics – however, numerous specialists don’t have to enroll in the copyright – except if and until a design turns into a major seller. Being the maker you own the copyright on it. You don’t have to enlist it to guarantee the copyright – the copyright is yours as long as you are the first maker. Registering your designs can let you save yourself from any kind of infringement.
Having copyright places you in a powerful position in a case of infringement if proven successful.
Note: If the designs are registered before the infringement takes place then only you will qualify for statutory damage. Copyright registration after infringement takes place will look like a material benefit. But you can get the claim of future infringement.
In a nutshell, if you think your designs can be infringed and you would like to proceed with the legal procedure means filing a lawsuit. In this stage, you have to consider the cost of a lawyer and the associated cost. On the off chance that this sounds good to you, then only register the copyright.
You can publish your designs to your site or on a space you control with the time showing the hour of publishing. This doesn’t grant you legal registration, but it can be taken as evidence of ownership which is helpful.
Trademark
Trademark is a unique symbol used to represent a business or its products. Once registered, other organizations can’t use the same symbol, as long as it remains in use. Google, Microsoft, Walmart, IMB are some of the most valuable trademarks.
T-shirt designs can be registered as trademarks as they don’t qualify as such. To protect your designs copyright will work. Trademarks simply don’t apply.
Where can you consider trademark registration?
Let’s take you to have a brand name under which you are trading and want to register your name as other vendors can’t copy your name. This will also help in removing the confusion of people. For example, there is only one “Mcdonald’s” in the world. Here we are not talking about the different brands but the company. If you have to open Mc Donald’s store then you have to take their franchise, you can’t start it on your own.
Note: This would make sense if your brand is well known or recognizable by the people. They are actively finding the stuff using your brand name.
Other than Logo, let’s take you have created a unique or original phrase related to your brand – now you have to protect that term as you are selling using that term. This would not apply to every case, but only to the unique cases.
