Yikes, all! The good news is I’ve been practicing what I preach and applying some of my intellectual-property knowledge to my own life, as I pursue some lightbulb moments of…
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Having just jumped on the Twitter bandwagon (barely catching it as it sped by my old-fashioned self), I’m still learning how to “tweet” — and even what “tweeting” means. Twitter’s…
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…
The call usually goes like this: “Hi, you’re a trademark attorney, right? So the thing is, I’ve come up with the next great catchphrase. It’s bigger than ‘Who let the…
I was recently introduced to the world of design-based business owners when I wrote an article on copyright tips for the popular design blog Design*Sponge. What a nice bunch of…
As a writer of songs and books, I, too, have had that frustrating experience of coming up with what I think is the most brilliant, original idea in the world,…
You might be one of the many who recently lost a job. And you might be one of the many who’s turned lemons into a lemonade stand and parlayed unemployment…
Art imitates life, or so they say, but when does art imitating life as captured in a photo become copyright infringement? I was a college newspaper editor when Kurt Cobain…
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…
A copyright is the right to own your creative work. It includes the rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the work and to prepare derivative works from your original...
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