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Instagram and copyright make strange bedfellows. Instagram is all about images. And legally using images is a major issue when it comes to social media. Some things you should think about when using Instagram: Are you posting your own images on Instagram? If so, what use and re-use can others make of your images? Are…
Your lawyer’s role in managing copyright issues is key to your role in copyright management. Managing copyright issues leads to copyright compliance. It’s usually undertaken on a day-to-day basis without consulting in-house or outside counsel. Examples of copyright compliance issues include: A librarian photocopying or scanning an article The marketing department uploading photographs to an…
Copyright literacy is about educating fellow employees and the public about copyright law and raising their awareness of how copyright law affects them. WIPO Magazine’s article Understanding Copyright – A Life Skill, by Lesley Ellen Harris, discusses the importance of copyright and intellectual property education on a broad basis. Once the preserve of specialists, copyright has…
How can you lower copyright risks? Lowering copyright infringement risks is a goal of every library, organization and business. This article provides tips for identifying your copyright risks when using third-party content, and keeping those risks to a minimum. Copyright Risk Management Checklist When Using Third-Party Content Applying copyright law to the use of third-party content…
How to protect photos you post online may be both simpler and more difficult than you realize. These days everyone’s snapping photos with cameras, phones and tablets. Although you may think that your images are amateur and simply family images, you still have rights in them. You may even take a fabulous picture that has…
Are you legally using images? Where do you obtain your images? Are you using images that you created, or images created by fellow employees? Are you using images you found on a website or on Instagram or FaceBook? To determine whether you’re legally using images, first consider the source of the image, then consider your…
Do you use images in presentations? This article will help you establish best practices for legally using images in presentation slides and minimizing your risks of copyright infringement. Images include photographs, charts, maps, illustrations and more. You may also like our online copyright course that includes an entire module on legally using images. Are You…
Happy Pi Day! This post celebrates Pi Day by examining the copyright protection of numbers and, of course, pie. Copyright protects creations that are fixed in some form and does not protect ideas and concepts. While we don’t have to define pie for you, we did look at the definition of pi in the dictionary….
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