You’re an artist… a graphic designer… you’re writing a book… you’ve developed a website, you’re a photographer, you’ve recorded some great music.. .. you’re a start-up.
You’re an artist… a graphic designer… you’re writing a book… you’ve developed a website, you’re a photographer, you’ve recorded some great music.. .. you’re a start-up.
In that case, you really need to understand how to protect your intellectual property. It could be your most valuable asset- and the easiest to steal.
Someone breaks into Coca Cola’s premises and steals a truck. That’s easy to sort out. A truck is physical. Coca Cola owned the truck, they taxed it, they registered it. They even insured it against theft.
Intellectual property
Your photos. Your designs. Your novel. Your music composition are your intellectual property, so you need to understand the basics of copyright protection.
What will you learn in this Copyright Basics: How to Copyright?
And I’ll show you how, even as a one-man band, you can get someone who infringes your copyright to desist - without going to law.
In fact, I’ll share a real-life Case Study where another writer copied my own website - wholesale. How I stopped her in one day flat.
Plus some interesting anecdotes and history about copyright to amuse you along the way.
Take this Copyright Basics: course right now and learn how to copyright your intellectual property.
In this session we…
· We look at the three different FORMS of protection – copyright, trademarks and patents.
· Explore what ‘copyright’ can offer you
· And learn what ISN’T protected – and there ARE some surprises there.
Learn when and how your work becomes copyright. Find out what is meant by ‘A FIXED, TANGIBLE MEANS OF EXPRESSION’. Discover what the Copyright Symbol © is really all about - and how to create it on a PC or a MAC.
We also look at the Phonogram symbol for music copyright.
DOWNLOAD NOTES - registering your copyright
After each video session, you will find a downloadable hard copy that you can print off, make notes on - and so on.
To download the pdf, simply go to the 'EXTRAS' button, top right of the course page. A 'drop down' menu will then give you the option to download.
We describe a number of strategies for proving the date that you work became copyright - some of them free. We look at copyright and printed/electronic books and explain what an ISBN number is.
DOWNLOAD NOTES - irrefutable proof
After each video session, you will find a downloadable hard copy that you can print off, make notes on - and so on.
To download the pdf, simply go to the 'EXTRAS' button, top right of the course page. A 'drop down' menu will then give you the option to download.
The growth of Torrent sites and Filhosters. We se how the DMCA helps and describe 'cease & desist' and 'takedown' letters - including how to write a takedown email.
We also look at the new breed of online companies that will automate the detection and takedown of copyright infringements.
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