Trademarks and Avoiding Consumer Confusion: Crash Course Intellectual Property #5

In which Stan Muller teaches you about our third branch of Intellectual Property, trademarks. A lot of people confuse trademark and copyright. Trademarks apply to things like company and product names and logos, packaging designs, and commercial designs. Basically, copyright protects ideas, but trademarks protect the things that help consumers tell companies apart. This ensures that consumers know the source of the goods they re buying. Without trademarks, it would be really difficult to buy the same product twice, and very easy for unscrupulous companies to pass off fakes and knock-offs of the products you want. I m telling you, you like trademarks. Thank you so much to all of our awesome supporters for their contributions to help make Crash Course possible and freely available for everyone forever: Pablo Soares, Brad Mohr, Stephen DeCubellis, Ian Gallagher, Vanessa Benavent, Lázaro Clapp, James Hood, Damian Shaw, James, H.G. Redekop, Carl Ayres ***** Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thecrashcourse/ CC Kids: http://www.youtube.com/crashcoursekids