Category Archives for "Copyright & Content Protection"
Copyright Protection for Blogs
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.
How to Protect Your Unpublished Writing
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 There are ways to protect unpublished writing.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.
Is it Fair Use? Using the Creative Work of Others
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?
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.
Understanding Your Copyrights
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.
How to Copyright a Series of Books
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.
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.
Who Owns Rudolph’s Nose?
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.
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.
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.