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Protecting your Intellectual Property – A look at trademark

Protecting your intellectual property
A look at the Trademark

By Matthew B. Harrison, esq.
PhotosAndTheLaw.com

As an arts and entertainment attorney, I find myself counseling clients with an ongoing mantra consisting of “protect your intellectual property.” Intellectual property (IP) refers to a legal entitlement that sometimes attaches to the expressed form of an idea, or to some other intangible subject matter. The term IP reflects the idea that the subject matter being protected is the product of the mind or the intellect, and that IP rights may be protected at law in the same way as any other form of property (even though the property may be intangible).

In the case of an artist, intellectual property may be all that they really have in terms of assets. An artists name as a manner in which their clients may identify their work, and the copyright protection that exist in the work, are two types of IP that immediately come to mind.