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- A copy right is the exclusive right of an author to reproduce,publish and sell his or her creative work.
-Copyrights are registered by the copyright office in the library of congress under present law they are good for the life of the author plus 50 years. They cover a wide range of creative efforts: books, magazines, newspapers, musical compositions and lyrics, dramatic works, paintings, sculptures, cartoons, maps, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings, and much else.
-A patent grants a person the sole right to manufacture, use, or sell "any new and useful art, machine manufacture, or composition of matter or any new and useful improvement there of."
- A patent is good for a varying number of years today, 17 years on the patent of an invention. the term of a patent may be extended only by special act of congress. The patent and trade mark office in the department of commerce administers patent laws.
-Copyrights are registered by the copyright office in the library of congress under present law they are good for the life of the author plus 50 years. They cover a wide range of creative efforts: books, magazines, newspapers, musical compositions and lyrics, dramatic works, paintings, sculptures, cartoons, maps, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings, and much else.
-A patent grants a person the sole right to manufacture, use, or sell "any new and useful art, machine manufacture, or composition of matter or any new and useful improvement there of."
- A patent is good for a varying number of years today, 17 years on the patent of an invention. the term of a patent may be extended only by special act of congress. The patent and trade mark office in the department of commerce administers patent laws.