One of the obvious risks of social media that people sometimes ignore or forget about, is that your secrets, your secret formula, your secrets teaching strategy, might find its way onto social media. Which means that to a certain extent, you could lose your competitive...
Continue ReadingHow do you keep out of legal hot water on social media? This is a big topic and I've got an entire course on this, but I thought I would just share a couple of quick tips with you. One of the big social media...
Continue ReadingI have a client who wrote a book, she had a book and then she also created a course. She obviously wanted people to come on the course, she created the book really to create interest in the course. She wanted people to come on...
Continue ReadingThe legal myth we are busting today, is that you paid to use an image online and therefore you are safe from a demand for copyright infringement. I'm talking about if you've used a stock image site, you've paid for it, and you've popped it up...
Continue ReadingHave you ever named and shamed somebody online, or been tempted to, or have you ever encouraged somebody else to? You need to be careful with this, because as the name suggests the reason for making it publicly known, is to lower people's impression of...
Continue ReadingThe legal myth that we are busting in your small business today is about free image websites. I'm sorry if you've heard me talk about this before, but this is still happening. People think that free image websites are safe to use, I can tell...
Continue ReadingDid you know that so-called free image websites pose a massive risk to businesses? Many clients that have used free image websites, and then received letters of demand saying that they're infringing copyright. How it actually works is websites like Pixabay, and other free image...
Continue ReadingSocial media and employees or contractors, what can you do? What should you do in regards to limiting what your employees or contractors post on social media, and why should you care? The dreamworld tragedy that happened where some people were killed on one of the rides,...
Continue ReadingThe Legal Myth that we're busting today relates to social media and this one actually happened to me. If you followed me for a while, you'll know that I'm always telling you not to copy other people's things. Don't copy their images, don't reuse them,...
Continue ReadingToday we are busting the myth that if you change something by 10%, then you're not liable for copyright infringement. I'm talking about a copyright work or something that might be under patent or protected by a registered design. I've heard this repeated so many...
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