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What Is Accidental Copyright Infringement. 2024 Update

Traverse Legal Blog

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. 2024 Update first appeared on Traverse Legal.

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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. Many times, designers choose images or text based upon how it looks or reads, not whether they have permission to use it.

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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.

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Trouble in Paradise: Copyright Office Rejects AI-“Authored” Work for Copyright Registration

JD Supra Law

AI has advanced significantly in creative industries, including music, web design and development, art, and social media, begging the. By: ArentFox Schiff

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Biggest Colorado Decisions Of 2023

IP Law 360

Supreme Court loomed large in Colorado this year, with the state suffering two major defeats, including its prominent anti-discrimination loss involving an anti-gay web designer. Here, Law360 looks at some of the biggest decisions affecting Colorado in 2023.

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Creative Agencies: Creative Hobby to Creative Career

Art Law Journal

Here we break down the different types of firms, agencies, and design companies so that you can make an informed decision that makes the most sense for you! Today, agencies and design firms come in many shapes and sizes. CREATIVE AGENCY / DESIGN AGENCY. Top Design Agencies. INTERACTIVE DESIGN AGENCY. Leo Burnett.

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

TorrentFreak

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. Given that the scammy hypnotherapist website was copied from a website that I-New Media originally designed, we wanted to clarify the facts with the company.