Difference between trademark and copyright?- TBCY

Simbarashe P Makahamadze, Founder, AllThingsIP Africa

He is the founder of AllThingsIP Africa, which is an organization that handles intellectual property.

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A seasoned and passionate Intellectual Property and innovation practitioner with more than 12 years of experience covering intellectual property protection, management, strategy & advisory in Africa & the Middle East, United Arab Emirates, African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO), and Zimbabwe accredited IP Agent.
He is the founder of AllThingsIP Africa, which is an organisation that handles intellectual property.
He is an Intellectual Property Consultant for PalladiumIP Consultants.

AllThingsIP Africa is an interactive online platform that simplifies access to and engagement with top-rated and verified lawyers in any city and country in Africa. Our mission is to make the African legal experience extraordinary by providing direct access to high-quality and cost-effective legal services.
Through our technology, we offer online, innovative, and transparent legal solutions at a fraction of the cost and time of the traditional legal system.
We coordinate and manage a functional and cooperative ecosystem of Lawyers, IP attorneys/ Agents, and IP Experts/ Consultants across the African continent under our AfricaIP Network.

The main challenge in Africa is enforcement, and it involves different stakeholders.
When it comes to Africa, the judiciary is very critical in terms of our enforcement of intellectual property.
Intellectual property protection is not generally a random fit, it is market-driven, and is a business that intends to venture into the African continent.

A trademark can either be a name or a sign or a logo, or a combination of both.
That serves the purposes of differentiating the goods and services provider from another.
And then when it comes to copyright, I will differentiate the trademark, from the copyright on the basis of definition, like the word says, copyright, the rights to copy.
When it comes to copyright, we look at the protection of artistic works, books, music, movies, and software.

A seasoned and passionate Intellectual Property and innovation practitioner with more than 12 years of experience covering intellectual property protection, management, strategy & advisory in Africa & the Middle East, United Arab Emirates, African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO), and Zimbabwe accredited IP Agent.
He is the founder of AllThingsIP Africa, which is an organization that handles intellectual property.
He is an Intellectual Property Consultant for PalladiumIP Consultants.