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Do You Copy?

To © or not to ©: How a copyright can protect your creative works

You already know you can get protection for a unique gadget or other invented product by filing a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). But what about a song, story, sculpture or software program? Patents can't help you here--they don't protect those kinds of creations. The good news: Copyright protection does.


Tomima Edmark, the woman famous for her Topsy Tail invention has now turned her creative talents to the competitive retail arena of intimate apparel, HerRoom and HisRoom.

This article was originally published in the November 1999 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Do You Copy?.

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