MAKING IT LEGAL
Protecting Your Ideas
As a maker, your ideas and what you make are important to you. You might want to start selling your idea and make money. Or maybe you want to give your idea away, as long as people also contribute their improvements for free. Either way, you may want to protect it with intellectual property protections.
Unfortunately, you can’t protect something if it’s just a thought. If you can creatively express your idea, you can protect it with a copyright. If you can turn it into an invention, you can protect it with a patent. If you keep your processes secret and sell the result, you can protect it with a trade secret.
Copyrights protect an original expression in a ...
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