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Copyright Concerns When Using Others to Create Content

Erik K Pelton

Many of my clients have contractors or vendors or virtual assistants who assist them with writing blog posts, creating newsletters, doing social media posting and work. When you hire someone to write or post or do social media for you, or create most types of content, it is generally a work for hire type of agreement.

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Their Copyrights Expired. The Legal Threats Keep Coming.

Copyright Lately

Rather than challenge a works public domain status in courtwhere they might face a public loss and a court-ordered fee awardsome rightsholders find it more effective (and economical) to rely on public statements, cease and desist letters, and convoluted legal arguments to chill potential users. The post Their Copyrights Expired.

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Airline Sues to Stop Popular Web-Scraping Service–American Airlines v. The Points Guy (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

On January 9th, American Airlines sent TPG a cease-and-desist letter. Power Ventures involved a social media aggregator’s consensual use of its users’ Facebook passwords to access their Facebook accounts. The service that Power Ventures sold was a platform to manage multiple social media platforms together.

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Infographic | Anticounterfeiting and Antipiracy in a digital era in Colombia

Olartemoure Blog

Create trademark alerts for your main brands, block them on Google, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social media. Request verification of your account from social media. Take advantage on this to request purchasing licenses. Authorities are always curious about your products.

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Small business trademark protections are more critical than ever

Erik K Pelton

Believe it or not, I even had to face changing my brand name early on as a result of receiving a cease and desist letter! More challenges to license or franchise the brand. Missed opportunities to reclaim social media usernames registered by others. Less valuable brand assets to monetize in a sale of the business.

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Court Orders Universe IPTV to Pay DISH $7m in Copyright Infringement Damages

TorrentFreak

According to DISH, the pirate provider had not obtained a license to transmit any of DISH’s 400 channels in the United States, neither did it have permission to distribute copyrighted works for shows for which the company owns the copyrights.

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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license”), and there is no allegation that it was corrupted, changed, or deleted. The service that Power Ventures sold was a platform to manage multiple social media platforms together.

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