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Trade secrets require some amount of effort by a business to protect them legally. Copyrights are easy to obtain legally, but difficult to enforce in practice.

Patents are somewhat difficult and often expensive to obtain and enforce.

Trademarks are easy to obtain but not always easy to enforce.

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