Have you ever entertained registering a domain name containing your personal name, maybe to market your trade or hobby or to post personal information for your family and friends, only to find that someone else has snatched up the name? Hey, that’s your name! Can you get it back?
How lucky we are to have the Internet nowadays to market our creative wares — whether our song or drawing or poem. But with this new marketing frontier comes a new risk: ease of theft of the work by a mere click of a mouse.
Blogging seems as innocent as jotting down your daily musings in a diary. But with blogging, 1) you’re revealing those musings to the world, and 2) you’re inviting the world to muse along with you. Those important differences bring bloggers within the realm of…gulp…THE LAW.
I’ll be speaking on social-networking ethics this Wednesday, September 8, at the Americana Music Festival in downtown Nashville, if you want to join the conversation in person. In case you can’t make it, I thought I’d give you a sneak-peek with the following legal tips on social-networking for musicians and artists.
