Jeremy started up a business selling t-shirts with images on them. He quickly found that if he printed photos from popular movies that he found online on the t-shirts, they outsold t-shirts with his images. He soon started selling only t-shirts with movie photos printed on them. A few months later, Jeremy received a letter from a law firm telling him to stop selling t-shirts with the movie photos. Which type of intellectual property is at issue in this example? Service Mark Trademark Copyright Patent

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Jeremy started up a business selling t-shirts with images on them. He quickly found that if he printed photos from popular movies that he found online on the t-shirts, they outsold t-shirts with his images. He soon started selling only t-shirts with movie photos printed on them. A few months later, Jeremy received a letter from a law firm telling him to stop selling t-shirts with the movie photos. Which type of intellectual property is at issue in this example? Service Mark Trademark Copyright Patent

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The type of intellectual property at issue in this example is Copyright. Copyright law protects the use of original works of authorship, such as photographs, and prevents others from using them without permission. In this case, Jeremy is using photos from popular movies without permission, which is a violation of the copyright holder's rights.

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