5 Copyright Application: Step-by-Step
Take a tour through the single copyright application with this replay of a live step-by-step session. Move quickly through the tricky parts. Complete with cost saving tips and clear explanations.
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8 Copyright Lessons from Shark Tank
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.
Read More1 Metadata, the Fingerprint for Your Creative Work
Using metadata in your online creative work now will protect it later. Here’s how to do it.
Read More22 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 More11 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 More4 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.
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