Copyright is the legal right to a product, only you can use it other people have to gain permission to use it from the copyright owner. This means that no one else can use your logo, copyright lasts for a certain number of years. Copyright means that the ownership of a product belongs to one person, that person is the only one that can legally print and distribute that product.
Trademark is a symbol, word or logo legally registered to a company that represents a product or company. When something is trademarked it means that you cant use it. for example the pepsi logo is a registered trademark and so it cant be used by an other company.
Intellectual property is when someone has created a something i.e. copyrights, this means that it belongs to the person that created it if they have copyrighted it and no one else can use it without permission.
www: you have covered the legal pitfalls when using and creating graphics. well done.
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