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Using Metadata to Monitor Your Portfolio
Using metadata in your online creative work now will protect it later. Here’s how to do it.
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22 Advocating for Creative Rights Is Personal
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.
Read MoreTrademark Registration Costs and Timeline
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.
Read More9 Privacy and the Copyright Office
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.
Read More2 Creative Entrepreneur: Running a [Jailhouse] Business
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.
Read More9 How to Protect Your Archive of Creative Work
If you have a large portfolio of creative work that needs copyright protection, here’s a simple formula for deciding what to protect first.
Read More3 How to Protect Designs from Illegal Copying
It can take as much ingenuity to protect your designs as it does to create them. Designers in fields like graphic art, jewelry, furniture, and fashion need to use different laws in combination to catch copyists. Here are some examples of how copyright, contract, and trademark law work together to protect your work.
Read More25 A Successful Creative Career Comes From Copyright Registration
Registering your creative work with the U.S. Copyright Office (even as a foreign national), creates opportunity for multiple revenue streams from a single work. It’s a best practice for your creative career. Here’s why.
Read More16 Charles Dickens and the American Copyright Problem
American copyright law was not always a powerhouse protecting the rights of creators. Back in the day, foreign writers had their work ruthlessly plundered by American publishers. Charles Dickens was active in bring the United States into the international copyright fold.
Read More4 Model Releases: Who Needs Them and When are They Needed?
When do you need a model release from the person whose image you are using in your work? Should you ask permission or forgiveness?
Read MoreRip-Off Protection Report for Creative Professionals
This free report shows you four basic steps for:
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