Trademark for your YouTube channel or podcast name?

What's all this buzz about trademarks, and do you need one for your podcast or youtube channel?

Welcome to another episode of Legit Podcast Pro from Gordon Firemark, The Podcast Lawyer™

A Trademark is a distinctive word, symbol or phrase that is affixed to goods or services to identify their source or origin, and to distinguish one product from the other.

Imagine that you've spent time, money and energy building your brand, and then someone else comes along, starts their own show or channel, names it the same as yours, or in a way that could lead to confusion about its source, and your audience starts finding them instead of you. Can you see how that could hurt your business? Your traffic? Your revenue? Your reputation?

A registered trademark gives you the tools... the ammunition you need to prevent that from happening... and to quickly resolve things if it does occur.

And, while it does cost something to register your trademark, it's a good bet that the cost is far outweighed by the harm that could come if you haven't taken this important step.

Bottom line, getting your intellectual property rights in order is one of the most important legal steps to take if you want to build and grow a successful media venture,
Intellectual Property strategy is one of the pillars of my Easy Legal For Podcasters program, where you can learn step-by-step, how to handle it for yourself, if you're so inclined.

And, if you're more interested in a done-for-you solution, visit the link below for more information, and to book a free consultation.

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[SoCalClip]

Awesome videos sir! I been having this idea for years of making a YouTube series of visiting some certain type of storefronts showing the viewers the location inside and out, asking the manager questions “what separates your store from others” “what’s the best selling item” etc etc. My question is, besides protecting the name of the series and brand (looking into doing shirts and hats with logo) should I look into doing anything else to protect my content?

[Whatalovelyday]

Also sir do you have a direct link for a consultation?

[Whatalovelyday]

If someone has a YouTube channel with very low subscribers but they don't have a trademark on it would you be able to take that name and put a trademark on it? And if so what would that mean for the YouTuber what do you have to change his name?

[craigypd]

Great Vid
Im in the UK how do i trademark my youtube channel brand/logo
Thanks

[gpariz]

How to I protect my Channel having in mind that usually, protection are made for that particular country. Example: If I creat an YouTube channel and podcast in US, how can I protect it from a person in another side of the world?

[wattsunplugged]

so i created a YouTube channel, and working on creating a podcast and a brand. I also am creating a logo to be used on shirts and hats etc. Do i copyright the name, or the logo, or is it one in the same? and for example, i have many different designs of shirts, but all under the podcast name/logo. Wondering how i go about protecting the brand.

[FreshSqueezedLightning]

Do you know if I have to get a business license before being able to trademark my business name/youtube channel? Been trying to figure that out.

[PoKeyWIZ]

How much should it cost to trademark your YouTube channel name and does my name clarify as a logo or do I have to do both and is the $350 government fee upon approval or before hand I had someone trying to do my trademark for me and I wanted to get a second opinion

[DreamCream]

What website do I go to make a trademark??

[heypappy]

gene simmons said there was bands called kiss, , he trademarked it