What you need to know about copyrights for your IM/social goodies

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This morning,

http://www.business2community.com/so...media-01593105

caught my attention.

Copyright.

One thing you definitely do NOT want to do is use copyrighted materials!!

The above is a good article about what Copyright Law covers:
  • Literary works
  • Musical works, including lyrics
  • Dramatic works, including music
  • Choreographic works
  • Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
  • Motion pictures and other audiovisual works
  • Sound recordings
  • Architectural works

and other thingees.

There's some excellent insights about copyright laws as they apply to marketers too:

It's definitely something to keep in mind as you build your business.

Enjoy!
#copyrights #goodies #im or social
  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Burritt
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    Here's a couple good tips to help avoid any potential copyright issues.

    -Put a copyright description at the bottom of your site.
    -Put a few legal disclaimers at the bottom of your site.
    -Write your own material.
    -Create your own art.
    -If you do hire writers or designers, get the original files (psd, ai, etc.) from them and make sure they are releasing any rights and giving you all ownership rights.
    -If you buy any PLR, make sure you keep a record of your purchases, and understand any limits on the reuse/resell rights.
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    • Profile picture of the author jimbobo2779
      Originally Posted by Jeff Burritt View Post

      -If you buy any PLR, make sure you keep a record of your purchases, and understand any limits on the reuse/resell rights.
      Sadly, in the UK at least, this isn't enough to protect you from someone trying to sue you over using their copyrighted materials.

      If someone releases a book and then someone else takes it and sells it on as PLR and you buy it and begin distributing you would be just as responsible for distributing copyrighted material as the scammer that sold it to you.

      Sadly unless you can prove that you have the rights to distribute something from the original creator you could get into legal issues for distributing it.
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
        Originally Posted by jimbobo2779 View Post

        Sadly, in the UK at least, this isn't enough to protect you from someone trying to sue you over using their copyrighted materials.

        If someone releases a book and then someone else takes it and sells it on as PLR and you buy it and begin distributing you would be just as responsible for distributing copyrighted material as the scammer that sold it to you.

        Sadly unless you can prove that you have the rights to distribute something from the original creator you could get into legal issues for distributing it.
        As far as I know, it works the same way in the USA.

        "I didn't know the license was bogus" is not a legal defense. Just ask anyone who has used a Getty image or a Disney character after finding it mislabeled on Google Images...
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      • Profile picture of the author Sid Hale
        Originally Posted by jimbobo2779 View Post

        Sadly, in the UK at least, this isn't enough to protect you from someone trying to sue you over using their copyrighted materials.

        If someone releases a book and then someone else takes it and sells it on as PLR and you buy it and begin distributing you would be just as responsible for distributing copyrighted material as the scammer that sold it to you.

        Sadly unless you can prove that you have the rights to distribute something from the original creator you could get into legal issues for distributing it.

        As John said...
        Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe

        As far as I know, it works the same way in the USA.

        "I didn't know the license was bogus" is not a legal defense. Just ask anyone who has used a Getty image or a Disney character after finding it mislabeled on Google Images...
        The same IS true in the U.S. and as a result, one should be really careful when planning to sell PLR rights to products that one purchased rights to from a PLR site.

        Since most PLR sites do not create their own products...
        it's important to understand whether or not those sites indeed have the right to sell you a PLR license.

        If they create the product(s) themselves, or have had the product created specifically for them (i.e. via an outsourcing contract) then they own the copyright and can legitimately sell PLR rights. They CANNOT legitimately sell the copyright to more than ONE single entity, and ONLY that copyright holder can legitimately sell full PLR rights (which requires distributing a copy of the rebrandable source to each buyer).

        If you see the same product, with PLR rights assigned, available from more than one source...
        all but one of those sources is bogus and cannot legally sell full PLR rights.

        P.S. When republishing PLR products, no copyright statements should be changed from the original source. A PLR license does not/cannot convey copyright.
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