What is the difference between a Brand and an Organization?If you have a clothing website, and you sell clothes and shoes from popular names like Adidas, Reebok, Puma, etc. When displaying these names in a list would you mark them up as a Brand or an Organization?Would Brand be the name that you are selling or would it be a specific line of shoes or line of jackets (for example) of that company?So if the user clicks on my Adidas link, it goes to a details page with a short description about Adidas and a list of all the products on the website from Adidas. So is Adidas marked up as a Brand or an Organization?
What's the difference between Brand and Organization in Schema.org?
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The difference might become clearer for cases where the organization name is not identical to the brand name. For example, consider the company Lenovo (Organization) which owns the brand ThinkPad (Brand). A specific ThinkPad product (Product) manufactured by Lenovo could be marked up like this:<article vocab=http://schema.org/ typeof=Product>  <h1 property=name>ThinkPad X60</h1>  <div property=manufacturer typeof=Organization>    <span property=name>Lenovo</span>  </div>  <div property=brand typeof=Brand>    <span property=name>ThinkPad</span>  </div></article>If you want to display both, the manufacturer and the brand, you could of course use the same structure also in cases where the organization/manufacturer name is identical to (one of) their brand names. Albeit named the same, a brand and its owner are still separate entities.To prevent the visible duplication, you could use meta/link elements to hide one of the instances (in the case of JSON-LD, this is not relevant, of course), or you could consider using both types together (but that might be problematic, depending on syntax/consumer).If you want to provide more data about one of these entities, you have to consider what exactly you are talking about. For example, a Brand cant have a PostalAddress etc. Given that the Brand type has only few properties defined, you cant provide that much data about it anyway.