Copyright, Patents, and Trademarks

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Interesting fact: Every year the music and the movie industry lose billions of dollars because of the making or downloading of illegal copies of movies and songs. This substantially hurts these industries sales and profits.

Businesses also lose money because of trademark violations. A trademark violation is when another company steals the design or symbol that is used to identify a product of a company and starts making fake products. Some famous trademarks are the Luis Vuitton's symbols on its products. Another famous one is the Nike Swoosh symbol on shoes. Companies engage in trademark violations produce counterfeit products, like fake Luis Vuitton purses or fake Nike shoes.

The counterfeit business is a billion dollar a year industry. Counterfeiting not only hurts many businesses sales and profits, but it also hurts consumers who think they might be getting an authentic product.

PowerPoint on Copyrights, Patents, and Trademarks.

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