Copyrights
Learn how copyrights can protect your creative work and how to handle infringements, license agreements, and more.
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Does Your Website Violate Copyright Law?
Just because web content is easily accessible doesn't mean it's free. Much of the material on the internet is copyrighted and if you're using articles or photos that belong to someone else on your site, you may be breaking the law.
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What You Can Do When Someone Steals or Misuses Your Photos
With social communities, using cameras phones to upload and instantly share images on the Internet has become a regular part of our lives. With this, the potential to have your photos stolen or misused becomes all too real. But there are laws that can help a sticky situation from getting worse.
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Do Bloggers Receive the Same 'Source' Protection as Mainstream Journalists?
Apple Computer Inc. sued 25 unnamed individuals, possibly Apple employees, who allegedly leaked specifications about a digital music product code named 'Asteroid' via various blogs: PowerPage, Apple Insider, and Think Secret. Read more to find out about the outcome.
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What Is Creative Commons? 5 Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to your Creative Commons questions here.
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Can Fashion Designs Be Copyrighted?
Recording artist Gwen Stefani recently filed an infringement suit against Forever 21, alleging that the 'fast-fashion' retailer improperly used the heart and heart/box trademarks from her upscale Harajuku line on its own merchandise in a 'virtually indistinguishable' way.
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Christmas Carols & IP Rights
This holiday season, many of us download and play Christmas carols to our heart's content without any thought to copyright ownership. By downloading and playing these songs, are we infringing on the author's copyright protection? Check out this primer on intellectual property rights, including what's protected, how long it's protected for.
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Blogging and Intellectual Property Law
Following these guidelines can help you stay on the right side of the law and understand your own rights.
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E-Publishing and the Importance of Copyright
With the popularity of e-books and growth of the technology to support them, electronic publishing has become a lot easier. Yet with that ease and a wide open marketplace, it becomes even more important you take the necessary steps to protect your creative work with a copyright.
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The State of the 'Fair Use' Defense in the Art World
The great French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin once said, 'Art is either plagiarism or revolution.' More than 100 years later, this statement is still up for debate among artists, some of whose work is being found to infringe others' copyrights.
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The Copyright Commons: Works in the Public Domain
Many of us have looked at a piece of art, watched a movie, or listened to a popular song and thought of using it to create something new. Well…can you?
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