People want to know how to protect ideas. Maybe they have a concept for a new business model, or a play, or a series of books. Or something else entirely. Either way, they want to protect ideas important to their business. How To Protect Ideas This article provides...
Getting a DMCA Safe Harbor registration in place is easy and cheap and can protect your business from a world of hurt. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) includes various provisions that keep online services from getting sued because of content that their...
I go on and on about copyright registration and copyright registration benefits. I write about it a lot and I am always haranguing my clients to do it. That’s because I think it’s important and it’s one of the easiest things that you can do to enforce your rights if...
Grace Bonney started an excellent conversation with her recent article, 50 Shades of Grey: Copying and Credit in Design. Go ahead and read it now, if you haven’t already. Her ideas are spot-on, and I wanted to add a little bit more in the hopes that it will help to...
Last week, the New Yorker published an article entitled “Taking Pictures: A Way for Photographers to Protect Their Work”. It chronicles the methods that one particular photographer, Yunghi Kim, protects her work. She uses a variety of techniques that would be helpful...