Do you use your knowledge to teach your audience? Then this post collection will help do it on the legal up and up!
Last time, I gave you an overview of when you can, can’t, and maybe shouldn’t act when you find your content used without your permission. This time I want to give you the exact procedure that I use to make this decision. And it’s all based on four simple questions that you only have to answer […]
Last week I got a call from a friend. The company behind the holiday show she was participating in had called her that morning. They were calling because they wanted to include her in the printed materials they would be handing out prior to the show. She asked a couple questions about what rights they […]
Based on the current data in the survey, my guess is that you are making less than $50,000 per year. When your business is running lean and mean and cash flow is a concern, you might think that hiring an expert like a lawyer or a CPA is out of your reach. I also know […]
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Does your website have: Google Analytics installed? A contact form? Comments enabled? A form to collect email addresses? Then you are collecting information about visitors to your website and should have a privacy policy. The goal is transparency I’m a big fan of keeping the public policy of laws in the back of my mind […]
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Most of the time when people call my law firm they are calling because they are in a jam. While I prefer to work with clients to prevent those jams from occurring in the first place, I have come to accept the fact that most of you only want to talk to a lawyer when […]
If you’ve ever dug into copyright issues, I’m sure that you’ve heard of the term fair use. And I’m sure if you started to research it, you left that research session with a spinning head and more confused than when you began. This is because fair use is one of the most complicated copyright topics. […]
In Copyright Basics, I quickly mentioned that if you placed a copyright notice on a digital file and it was removed, that you might have an additional reason to sue your infringer. Today, I want to dive into this law and how it can help you protect and enforce your copyrights. What is Copyright Management […]
We are going to start off by making sure we are all on the same page about some key aspects of copyright laws. Understanding these underlying principles will be a huge help as we move through the month. We’ve got a lot to cover, so let’s jump in. Why do copyright laws exist? One of […]
So you don’t get a nasty letter, you need to know who created that blog post or image so you can ask permission and give credit where credit is due. When you are trying to search backwards to find the source, these searches are called “reverse searches.” Text based reverse searches are pretty darn easy. You can […]
Figuring out ways to leverage one piece of artwork into multiple sources of income is an issue for every creative business. For visual artists, this becomes even more difficult in our right-click Internet society. The reality is that the only way to prevent your images from being posted without your permission is to not post […]
