Uk Copyright Law: A Quick Guide For Freelance Writers
Posted on February 14, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
As a freelance writer, ideas are your bread and butter. Getting a commission means revealing your idea for a great article to an editor or someone else. There’s no way around it, but how can you prevent people from ripping you off? Here’s what you need to know about UK copyright law.
Read More..>>Copyrighting Infringement - Is The Threat Real For Artists?
Posted on January 18, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
Many artists have asked me recently about protecting their images from online theft. Downloading photos from websites is as easy as 1-2-3 so… what can you do to protect your work, and more importantly, should you be worried about it?
1. Why is your work online?
Read More..>>Copyright Procedures; Quick And Easy
Posted on January 17, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
The digital age of cyber publishing and intellectual property, raises many questions about copyrighting. If you have never published anything in your life, you still hold copyrights. If you do publish your work, how do you know your copyrights are in place? Copyrighting is not complicated or difficult, there is a quick and easy way to copyright any creative you produce.
Copyright law in the United States is extremely generous toward the creators and owners of new works. Legal copyright protection is in effect immediately and automatically upon the creation of any “original work of authorship” that is “fixed in any tangible medium of expression.”
Read More..>>Copyright Infringement Lawsuits Affect Individuals And Businesses
Posted on January 16, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
A copyright infringement lawsuit can occur for any number of reasons: someone using a song in a podcast or radio program, a writer “borrowing” information from another work, copying video or mp3 off the Internet without permission (or sometimes, even to another CD or DVD). Copyright infringement lawsuits are not generally brought to the average person, unless they’re downloading a LOT of music or movies, but usually for large operations: software pirates reselling goods on eBay or to some other unsuspecting victim, someone “sampling” a song to make another, or maybe a person reselling mp3s online.
Read More..>>Intellectual Property - Copyright Infringement In Computer Software
Posted on January 10, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
The case of Point Solutions Ltd v Focus Business Solutions Ltd and Another [2007], which was heard in the Court of Appeal, involved a claimant who carried on business as a provider of computer software services, and in particular software for the creation and use of electronic application forms for provision to the financial services sector.
At the material time the defendants had for a number of years been the dominant supplier in that market. In April 2001, the claimant and the defendants entered into an outsourcing agreement under which the claimant carried out work for the defendants, work which included a review of a module in the defendants’ Goal software. In order to carry out that work, the claimant was provided with three modules of the defendant’s Goal software.
Read More..>>When Does Copyright Expire On My Music?
Posted on January 1, 2008 - Filed Under Legal and Law | Leave a Comment
The expiration date on your copyrighted music isn’t something you have to worry about, at least not in your lifetime. The music that you’ve written is copyrighted the moment you’ve put it onto paper or recorded it. The reason you don’t have to worry about expiration is because the music is protected until 70 years after the death of the author. In the case of your music, that author would be you.
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