Have you received a letter of demand accusing you of infringing copyright online? If you have, you've come to the right place, because I'm going to share with you my seven tips on how to overcome this problem. What it is: a letter of demand...
Continue Readinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYMS9yCc2kg Here is one simple tip to protect your copyright that you can do for free, yourself. You can do it yourself, you don't need a lawyer. All it is, is applying the © copyright symbol. I have been in a workshop recently and I had a little...
Continue Readinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phwXcIuLG4c Are you experiencing business bullies? Seriously, who you going to call? Do you have an action plan? As with most emergencies, having an action plan in advance can save a lot of stress (and expense). You know, business sometimes can be a hard place, and not a very...
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Have you received a letter of demand accusing you of infringing copyright online? If you have, you've come to the right place, because I'm going to share with you my seven tips on how to overcome this problem. What it is: a letter of demand...
Continue ReadingThere are many reasons someone might want to claim and/or enforce copyright in a creation. Some of these reasons include: So they can make money out of it. This is the one most people think about first. So they can prevent the distribution of their...
Continue ReadingCopyright is the right to prevent others from copying and modifying what the law calls a “copyright work”. There are certain types of “copyright works” listed in the Copyright Act. Only these types of works attract copyright. Examples of copyright works are written works (e.g. books, blogs,...
Continue ReadingBusinesses we deal with are sometimes confused how to protect their content. Here are our top 3 tips for protecting your content: Mark each page/post that has content you have generated with a © (copyright symbol), the year(s) and the person/organisation that owns the content. The...
Continue ReadingSocial media sites take impression and click-through revenue from articles generated by the hard work of their membership. Some sites can also copy and make use of any of your posts, including altering them, for whatever purpose that they want, including making all of the content private...
Continue ReadingImagine someone stealing your book and then publishing it as theirs! The link below contains a cautionary tale. Alarmingly, the fraudster works via eLance, a very popular outsourcing website (although that is not how he stole the book). NOTE: it is an American story, so when...
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