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8 When to Protect Creative Work

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.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was a work for hire, but the department store employer returned the copyright to the author. This is how copyright registration turned Rudolph into a gold mine for the writer’s family.

using metadata to monitor your portfolio

Using metadata in your online creative work now will protect it later. Here’s how to do it.

Protect your creative rights by challenging those who would take them from you. It’s not always easy. Here’s what happened when I was caught off guard by someone who blatantly admitted stealing the creative work of others.

Trademark registration may not be the first thing you want to spend your money on, but plan for it in your budget. Successful businesses are built on branding.

The need for privacy is a concern for many writers and artists. Filing an application with the Copyright Office for a copyright registration on your work creates a public record. There is a natural tension between protecting your work with a public filing and protecting your privacy, but it can be done.

It takes a certain kind of person to be a creative entrepreneur. A successful business is made up of more than just a good idea. Good ideas are key, but they are also a dime a dozen. Solid execution is needed to bring that idea to fruition, to turn that idea into a going concern, to have that idea make money.

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8 When to Protect Creative Work

5 Understanding Your Copyrights

69 How to Copyright a Series of Books

8 Copyright Lessons from Shark Tank

28 Who Owns Rudolph’s Nose?

1 Using Metadata to Monitor Your Portfolio

22 Advocating for Creative Rights Is Personal

0 Trademark Registration Costs and Timeline

10 Privacy and the Copyright Office

2 Creative Entrepreneur: Running a [Jailhouse] Business

Rip-Off Protection Report for Creative Professionals

This free report shows you the basic steps for: