Copyright Articles

1). CD Duplication: What Is It And How Does It Work? By : Andrew James
Many times, when people think of CD duplication, they think of something that is not legal. There are some many articles in the newspapers today dealing with issues of copyright infringement and CD duplication. This is true especially with music, dvds, and computer software. However, CD duplication is legal and also many times is a needed service
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2). Stop Stealing my Copyrights By : steve barnes
Have you ever been stolen from? Do you know how it feels? You work hard to achieve, to acquire, or to create and then some undeserving fool steps in and takes it all away from you. You feel violated! Your efforts were in vain. Something meaningful that was rightfully yours is snatched away. As a young man, I developed a real love for music. I grew up in it, with Mom on the piano, my uncle on the guitar, and my aunt and sisters singing.
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3). Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights--What’s the Difference? By : Terry Williamson
Patents A patent protects inventions through federal law. Inventions are your creative ideas for new products (articles of manufacture), machines, processes, methods, compositions of matter, ornamentation on products, or new plants. An improvement on an existing product may also be patented. Utility patents protect the majority of these. To be patentable, your invention must be useful, novel and non-obvious.
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4). Choosing the Right Attorney By : John Purdy
What if you could simply pick up the telephone and contact an attorney to get advice about any and all legal matters of interest to you? The attorney could draft your will, examine it and update it for every other year, place telephone calls on your behalf and prepare letters to negotiate your contracts and represent you in court.
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5). Silly Writing Expectations By : Shania Duncan
Do you think you can play the piano like Mozart without any lessons? Can you swim like a fish, never having been in the water before? What about fly an airplane like an expert pilot? Or even bake a cake without a recipe? This is a no-brainer. Of course you cannot. It does not take a genius to figure this out. No one would expect you to be able to do these things unless you were some sort prodigy.
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6). Protecting Your Website From Online Thieves - Part 1 By : Andy MacDonald
Why people steal Publishing online is very easy for anyone to do; it's also very easy for others to steal. As the web expands in size, so do the number of thieves. Online thieves steal anything from a single image or a paragraph of content to an entire web site. Every web site is vulnerable. If you have a web site, chances are you will come across another Web site showing your original work and passing it off as its own.
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7). Use Your Business Entities to Brand Yourself! By : Germaine A. Hoston
How do you establish an effective brand? Branding--creating a distinctive corporate identity for your business--is critical to your success as an entrepreneur. You can, and must, use the process of setting up and managing your business entities to establish your own distinctive brand. The world's greatest companies have mastered this art of branding.
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8). How to Work With Your Intellectual Property Lawyer By : Mikki Barry
Intellectual property law is a daunting challenge to even the most seasoned business person. How does one choose the right way to protect your most coveted assets; your intellectual property? Here are a few pointers that can help.
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9). When Circumvention is Necessary for Fair Use By : Mikki Barry
Much has been said about the copyright holder or distributor's rights to keep their investment safe from piracy, but not enough has been said about a consumer's fair use rights.
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10). Protecting Your Website From Online Thieves - Part 2 By : Andy MacDonald
Prevention cures copyright In this design article, we will go over the most important steps to take for protecting your web site and web graphic images from these online thieves. 1. Place a copyright notice on every web page The first thing to do is display your copyright notice on the bottom of your home page - and preferably on all pages of your web site.
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11). Protecting Your Website From Online Thieves - Part 3 By : Andy MacDonald
Act now for your copyright In the previous design article Prevention Cures Copyright, we covered how to protect your web site files and gather evidence of your copyright ownership. Now we will look at how you can take all of your preparation and use it to find your online thieves. Use the major search engines To tell if someone has stolen your web site or your web graphic images, you can use the major search engines.
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12). Copyright FAQs - What Exactly is the Significance of the © Copyright Symbol? By : pete arkwright
There are two major international multilateral copyright conventions which operate in the global system. One is the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Berne) and the Universal Copyright Convention. Most European and Commonwealth countries belong to Berne, however up to recently the US only belonged to the Universal Copyright Convention.
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13). Wise Business Decision Making: Outsourcing your Logo Design By : Russell A.
You’ve been in business for more than a couple of years. You’ve enjoyed moderate success through positive word of mouth and by delivering top-level quality of service, but your industry is becoming more and more competitive and the need for a more professional look is becoming imperative. Sound familiar? The truth is that in today’s market even the best companies need to sell its image and brand in order to succeed.
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14). What Copywriters Need to Know About The Proper Use Of Copyright By : Chris Marlow
What copywriters need to know about copyright, and how this protects them and their clients.
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15). Steal this Ebook By : John Tello
The hippie bible "Steal this book" was an anti-capitalism manifesto, widely remembered because of its creative and aggressive title plus its subvertive message. Paper books like that one were not easy to steal, because of the guards in the bookstores and the costly effort of retyping, mastering, printing, binding and distributing. In the digital era you can get an ebook, crack or OCR it if protected, and copy-pasting it.
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16). Copyright and music, the right way to protect your rights. By : Sherif
If you enjoy writing and recording your own music then you probably just want to concentrate on that, but it is worth taking a few steps today that can save a mountain of trouble later on. Register your work: If you want to get published, or even if you self publish your work, you will be sending copies to your agents, record companies, or other individuals.
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17). Magnanimous Music Mogul Maneuvers Magnificent Marketing By : Jaci Rae
Music and Marketing, learn from the experts
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18). Understanding Business and Government Regulations By : David Gass
Describes business and government regulations and how to deal with them.
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19). How to Get Permission to Quote Somone in Your Book By : Shawn Bremner
How to Get Permission to Quote Somone in Your Book
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20). What Do You Know About Copyrights? By : lar
Copyright laws are very important to understand whether you are a writer, a professional or a student. Anyone found violating copyright laws or infringing on another’s work is subject to penalty.
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21). Media Piracy and Law Enforcement By : Josh Stone
Once upon a time, music played for free on the radio. And you could record a cassette if you wanted to, and you could listen to it as many times as you wanted to, and nobody thought you were a pirate if you shared it with your friends.
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22). Photo Copyright Concerns. By : TJ Tierney
Copyright in most works of art, which includes writing, photography and digital images occur as the work is created. To put it as simply as possible, the second you click the shutter button, the resulting image belongs to you. No formal registration is needed in more that 140 countries in the world, to receive basic legal protection. But regardless, if you do feel that you don‘t understand certain legal points, you would be well advised to speak to your legal advisors.
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23). Licensing Your Copyrighted Works By : SD Lawyer
If you’ve taken the necessary steps to register your copyrighted works, you inevitably will have an opportunity to royalties off of them. To take advantage of the opportunity, you will need to be familiar with copyright license agreements. Copyright License Agreement A copyright license agreement sets for the terms under which a third party can use your content.
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24). How to Get Permission to Quote Someone in Your Book By : Shawn Bremner
Note: the following information was collected by posting many questions on forums for small publishers; in many cases it represents opinions and should not be taken as competent legal advice. As a compiler of a book of quotations, I sometimes get questions like, "How do I get permission to quote someone in a book?" or "What do the copyright laws say about quoting someone?" Here are a few things I learned while researching the subject for myself.
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25). What is Fair Use? By : Sharon Housley
Copyright 2006 Sharon Housley As the Internet matures, users and governments are struggling to manage controversial issues. Lets face it, the Internet did not exist when the US copyright laws were written;let us not forget, while many countries respect copyright laws, the Internet is global without a governing body. There are not only different laws, rules and regulations, but also jurisdiction issues.
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