Hi Jodie, Good question! I believe you can register and trademark a hashtag. But you can’t copyright one.
I probably wouldn’t bother though. I can’t really see how you could enforce your legal rights to it, especially if they were operating in another country.
Say you have 50 physical photo albums, with a label on each. Five of these might be labelled “Holidays”. So by glancing at the cover, you can easily find the photo albums containing holiday photos.
A hashtag is simply a way of labelling things online, eg #holidays
So when someone searches for “holidays” or “#holidays”, then the posts in which you added the hashtag #holidays will appear in that person’s search results.
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How do you buy the Hashtag so that it belongs to you?
Hi Jodie, Good question! I believe you can register and trademark a hashtag. But you can’t copyright one.
I probably wouldn’t bother though. I can’t really see how you could enforce your legal rights to it, especially if they were operating in another country.
I may be dense but I still don’t understand about using hashtags.
Hi Gayla. I agree it is confusing at first.
Think of a hashtag as a label or a tag.
Say you have 50 physical photo albums, with a label on each. Five of these might be labelled “Holidays”. So by glancing at the cover, you can easily find the photo albums containing holiday photos.
A hashtag is simply a way of labelling things online, eg #holidays
So when someone searches for “holidays” or “#holidays”, then the posts in which you added the hashtag #holidays will appear in that person’s search results.
Thanks, Andrew, that clarified it a lot. Thanks again
Any time!