In today’s world, we must watch over many things that could affect our careers and/or businesses. Many people decide to be part of illegal activities by downloading music, films, graphics, and many other creative works. Our company will be able to be protected as much as possible as we register all of our creative work. Between copyrights, trademarks, permits, and all the protective tools we can acquire.
Protection is not only established by registering your work, but also by keeping up to date with cases and situations in the court. Entertainmentlawupdate.com is a great place to start researching and stay updated on cases or situations occurring around the world when it comes to the entertainment industry.
Gordon Firemark definitely sets a great source of information on different issues on copyrights, trademarks, and or infringements. Gordon explains how a controversy between a slogan of a guitar making company and a t-shirt company (2012). The t-shirt company used the slogan “Born to Rock” on CafePress and action against them was taken by the guitar makers, as they sue as part of their rights given by the federal registration of their trademark.
On another of Gordon’s podcasts, he explains how other countries are now offering a protection similar to ours (2011). The European Union has recently added 20 more years to their copyright protection. This puts their protection similar to ours, as the United States federal copyright protection it is set to 70 years.
Having this information at our fingertips will protect our assets and prevent liabilities against others trying to commit infringement or any other illegal activity directed to our work, products, and or services.
Thanks to these amazing tools, our company will have enough ammunition and knowledge to protect ourselves. Not only will we register our work, but also we will keep track of any activity on the Internet for future infringements or possible issues that could create liabilities to our company.
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