How to check if something is trademarked or copyrighted in the print on demand world, right? So I've been getting a lot of comments people asking me how can I find out if a t-shirt is copyrighted? If a t-shirt is trademarked where can I go and check it out? So I'm actually going to show you right here right now on my computer But before we get started, please consider hitting that subscribe button If you haven't already subscribed 60 or 70% of the people that watch this haven't subscribed and it would mean so much to me If you hit that subscribe button, let me know in the comments down below you've done that Kick the bell notifications because I'm bringing out a new video every single day and it takes so much time and Literally it would make my day if you subscribe to this channel. Okay, so firstly, let me just quickly read this description Of the difference between copyright and trademark. I found it online So while both of the intellectual property protection they protect different types of assets copyright is geared towards literacy and artistic works such as books and videos a trademark protects items that help define a company's brand such as its logo So if we zoom into this Copyright is like original works of authorship such as books articles songs photographs sculptures choreography sound recordings motion picture and other works and Trademark is any word phrase symbol and all design that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of one party From those of others. Okay, so it's very important to understand the difference between a trademark and copyright and a lot of the time people are saying how can I check the copyright well firstly checking copyright isn't so easy Anything that someone makes technically is copyrighted if I design t-shirt that doesn't exist yet That is now copyrighted you cannot design the exact same t-shirt however You can design a very similar t-shirt and just change it like a tiny little bit It's very very simple to get around that which is why it's so hard to actually copyright it for example If someone took a photo I could take the exact same photo at just a shutter speed higher and it would be different photos so like copyright is very hard to kind of Enforce really so if you have a t-shirt design or yeah, we're gonna stick with t-shirts We're not gonna say you're doing mugs or socks or anything Let's just say t-shirts if you have a t-shirt design and you want to know if it's copyrighted let's say your design is dogs About the pug life t-shirt what you would do is you would search Google for pug life You would do as much research as you possibly could to try and find that exact design if you cannot find it Then go ahead and do it you can assume that no one has done it before if someone comes along and says actually That's my design we'll find out what date that they published it and if they published it before you then yes It was their design but if they published it after you then it's your design So that is how you can do the copyrighting side of it the trade marking side of it Which doesn't really come into place so much with the print on the mark business except for like the obvious ones like the NHL NBA Movies the Avengers Disney that kind of stuff that's called trademark that sort of stuff you can't even begin to Create anything around But the way you would check that is literally you would go to a website called trade mark here dot com Let me get that website up for you That website is called trade mark here Dot com okay, and it looks like this. I'm just gonna show you here. It's easier Right it looks like It looks like that. Okay. It's very simple. You would put your search in over there You click search and you would see if something has been trademarked right it's Really really simple. So let me put you back to the way you were Let me get you back to good light Okay, so that is how you would check the the trademark using trade market dot com and that's really honest I mean this wasn't going to be a complicated video But a lot of people are asking me doesn't mean it's a complicated subject. So that is how you check copyright That is how you check trademark try and be careful with these kind of things you do not want to be getting sued You just want to try and start your own business now a lot of the time with websites like t-spring red bubble amazon If you create something that if copyrighted or trademarked a lot of the time it flags them automatically and removes that listing So that in itself is quite good because if you if you launch something that you weren't sure about and then it deletes Then you can assume it was copyrighted or trademark. So that is that is a good way But other than that don't panic don't worry about these kind of things Look no one is coming after your tire family money in your house in your car really don't worry just Do your due diligence and be a bit careful and you'll be absolutely fine So that's what I want to say this is a very quick video for five minute video But before I end I just want to say again if you haven't already subscribed and hit that subscribe button And if you want me to create more print on demand videos Let me know in the comments what kind of videos you want to see i'm happy to do any kind of print on demand video As well as any other type of videos amazon related business related finance motivation any of it Let me know in the comments down below and yeah, hopefully i will see you in this video. Thank you so much for watching