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What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement. 2024 Update

Traverse Legal Blog

Preventing Accidental Infringement: Respect Copyright: Avoid copying others’ work without permission. Even in situations where a business owner contracts a third-party web designer to build their website, both the business and the web designer can be held liable for copyrights violated if they are used on your website.

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Why You Should Never Use the Stock Content in a Website Theme

Plagiarism Today

To help with this, many web designers, especially those that are new to it, get help in the form of themes or stock templates that can be obtained from a variety of sites. Make Changes Before Going Live: Once your site is live and visible to search engines, that is when rightsholders can detect copied content and begin to take action.

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Amazon, Lee Child & John Grisham Win $7.8m Judgment Against eBook Pirates

TorrentFreak

A preliminary injunction was quickly handed down by a Washington court which prevented payment processors, domain registrars, hosts, back-end service providers, affiliate program providers, web designers, and search engines from doing business with the sites. The court also ordered assets to be restrained. ” Court Awards $7.8m

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DMCA Scammers Exploit Sites Linked to Mental Health Issues to Boost SEO

TorrentFreak

A copy from the Wayback Machine also reveals that the photographs of the therapist are drastically different when compared across sites, an indication of a deliberate switch. As the archive copy of the Beyond Boundaries website on the Wayback Machine clearly shows in the footer, the site was created by web design/SEO company i New Media.