Definitions

Copyright

'A copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to the
creator of an original work or their assignee for a limited period of
time upon disclosure of the work. This includes the right to copy,
distribute and adapt the work. - Wikipedia, Copyright

In simple terms copyright is a protection for creators of their orginal
work. Its an ownership for any work that has been created.
Copyright covers areas in copying, adapting, distributing, communication
with public, renting to public and even performing.
Copyright is not applied by any official registration system.


Patent

'The term patent usually refers to an exclusive right granted to
anyone who invents any new, useful, and non-obvious process,
machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any
new and useful improvement thereof, and claims that right in a
formal patent application.' - Wikipedia, Patent

This stetement means that patent copyright can be obtained if
an author created an innovation and he/she doesn’t want it to be
reproduced if there isn't license arangement.
Anything can be patented as long as it is new and
hasnt been discovered previously.


Trademark

‘A trademark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual,
business organization, or other legal entity to identify that
the products or services to consumers.
A trademark is typically a name, word, phrase, logo, symbol, design,
image, or a combination of these elements.
The essential function of a trademark is to exclusively identify the
commercial source or origin of products or services, such that a
trademark, properly called, indicates source or serves as a badge
of origin. In other words, trademarks serve to identify a particular
business as the source of goods or services.’ - Wikipedia, Trademark

This statement is self explanotary. Trademark sign is used when
products are involved in trade. Trademark sign however is more
powerfull than copyright that is why trademark sign and copyright
sign are never used togather. In some cases they might, but not
under the same type of product.


Design Right

‘The design right is the appearance of a product, in particular,
the shape, texture, colour, materials used, contours and ornamentation.
To qualify as a new design, the overall impression should
be different from any existing design.
Typically the creator of the design owns any rights in it, except
where the work was commissioned or created during the course
of employment, in which case the rights belong to the employer or
party that commissioned the work.’ - UKCCS, Fact sheet P-15: Designs and design rights

Design right is more about the visual identification that belgongs
strictly to the author. This type of copyright can be aplied only if
the work is orginal.


Copying

'Copying is the duplication of information or an artifact based only
on an instance of that information or artifact, and not using the
process that originally generated it. With analog forms of information,
copying is only possible to a limited degree of accuracy,
which depends on the quality of the equipment used and the skill
of the operator.' - Wikipedia, Copying

There is a very fine line between dupliation of the work/copying
and manipulation of the work that can be used. Based on the
statement above it is also about the quality of the work not always
identicality.
Copying may refer any form of creativity; music, design to text to
softwere.




Crediting

‘In general, the term crediting in the artistic or intellectual sense
refers to an acknowledgement of those who contributed to a work,
whether through ideas or in a more direct sense.
In the creative arts, credits are an acknowledgement of those who
participated in the production. They are often shown at the end of
movies and on CD jackets. In film, video, television, theater, etc.,
credits means the list of actors and behind-the-scenes staff who
contributed to the production.’ - Wikipedia, Credic (creative arts)

There is a very fine line between dupliation of the work/copying
and manipulation of the work that can be used. Based on the
statement above it is also about the quality of the work not always
identicality.
Copying may refer any form of creativity; music, design to text to
softwere.
Well crediting is very simple to understand as it is simply additional
people that contributed to the work/production. They are usually
secondary people not an author.