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4 Trademarks for Creative Professionals

Trademarks help customers find you in the crowd. It’s an integral part of your brand, the promise you make to your customers. A good trademark is a powerful business asset. This is how they work.

Did the NRA make fair use of Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate sculpture? Or is its inclusion in an NRA promotional video an infringement? Fair use could decide the case of Kapoor v. NRA.

As the author of a creative work, you are the one who owns copyright to it unless you are an employee or the work is for hire. If you own the company, you can choose whether to own the rights or assign them to the company. Here’s how to make that decision.

Copyright protection for blogs can be efficient, effective, and affordable with a few simple tweaks to your website. That, plus an understanding of how the Copyright Office handles online work, will give you the protection you need.

Can you confidently send a manuscript to editors and beta readers without the worry that your ideas will be stolen or your work infringed? There are ways to protect unpublished writing. And it’s easier than you think.

Do you need permission to incorporate someone else’s work into your own? Or have you transformed their work in a way that makes it fair use?

Deciding whether and when to invest time and resources to protect creative work can be a challenge. If you find yourself in any one of these three situations, you need to take action.

A copyright can be your golden ticket. There are unlimited ways to license your rights to create multiple revenue streams if you know what your rights are.

Can you register your book series with the Copyright Office on one application and pay only one fee? If you are a certain type of writer, you can.

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A hopeful entrepreneur told the Sharks how she shut down someone who infringed her design. They weren’t impressed. This is the enforcement strategy she should have used to make copyright infringement pay.

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4 Trademarks for Creative Professionals

9 Kapoor v. NRA: A Fair Use Analysis

14 Who Owns Copyright? My Company or Me?

4 Copyright Protection for Blogs

11 How to Protect Your Unpublished Writing

2 Is it Fair Use? Using the Creative Work of Others

4 When to Protect Creative Work

0 Understanding Your Copyrights

27 How to Copyright a Series of Books

8 Copyright Lessons from Shark Tank

Rip-Off Protection Report for Creative Professionals

This free report shows you four basic steps to: