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Sorry, I, I couldn't hear you.
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Oh, that's probably because the rock just got the copyright for
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Nicknames and phrases from WWE That's stop Paris Hilton owns that
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can you smell what the rock is coming?
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I'm super confused about celebrities and trademarks.
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If only we had a famous lawyer to explain.
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We have Taylor Thieman from legal mega.
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Hi Taylor. So I think a lot of us are a
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bit confused. What's the difference between a trademark and a copyright
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Yeah. Good question.
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Everyone gets this confused.
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Copyright is more along the lines of like things you're creating works
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of authorship. Creative works trademark is more along the lines of
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your branding, business name,
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stage name slogans. So there are two different types of intellectual
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property law but they often intersect with each other because when we're
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working in these areas,
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both of those things kind of happen all the time.
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Why do celebs fight for like trademarks?
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Like what's the benefit?
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how do they get paid?
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Is the rock and sue us probably not,
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celebrities usually are fighting for their trademarks.
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And what it looks like in this situation is that the Rock
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didn't actually own his own trademark and trademarks like the Rock and
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some other names and phrases before it looked like WWE actually owned
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those. So the Rock is benefiting off of those,
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obviously, if he owned his actual trademark.
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So licensing deals, sponsorship deals,
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any sort of collapse he's doing,
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he is not making as much very likely if he's not the
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actual owner of those trademarks,
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where can people, if they want to start filing?
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What's the first step that someone should do with?
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Do they go to the website?
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Do they contact a lawyer?
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I would definitely suggest checking out the trademark website,
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which is us pto.gov.
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That's where you can file federal trademarks.
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That's where all of the celebrities and big businesses are filing their
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trademarks and there's nothing stopping you from filing one there.
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If you want to as well,
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they have a lot of information on that site.
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But if it's confusing and you're not familiar with the process,
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then you might wanna talk to an attorney.
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So if someone is watching this and they want to reach you
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so that you can help them,
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where can people find you?
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I'm at Lego Mega on Instagram.
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and then Lego meal.com and I'm all over socials.
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I'm always messaging people and stuff.
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So I'm pretty busy over there.
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Thank you so much for joining us Taylor and congratulations as well
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I saw on your Instagram the big news she's pregnant.
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There's so many babies.
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That's the theme for today's episode.
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Congratulations. Thank you.
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Thank you. I feel like everybody's pregnant right now.
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It's the time of the.
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That's impossible. That's funny.
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Any food. But thank you so much Taylor Taylor on the
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next time I said you really got me with that one.
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That's impossible. Same.
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