How many of you know what Intellectual Property Rights means? Well, if you have your own web site and/or blog, it is something you need to educate yourself about.
According to Wikipedia – “Intellectual Property Rights is a legal concept which refers to the creations of the mind for which exclusive rights are recognized. Under the Intellectual Property Rights Law, a user is granted certain rights to a variety of intangible assets…like music, photographs, artistic works, inventions, words, phrases and designs. These intangible assets include your original works on your web site blog! Things like blog design, text used in your blog posts, your original photographs and more.”
When someone uses these intangible assets as their own without your permission, you will often need to hire an Intellectual Property Rights Lawyer to help you get compensation or to have their bad actions stopped. Trust me…it can be a real hassle if you try to handle it yourself.
To put all of this information in layman’s terms…You can not run around online and steal other people’s articles, text from blog posts, web graphics, photographs, videos, business slogans and all sorts of other creative works.
In addition, if someone does steal your own creative work and uses it for themselves or uses it in a business application…you have RIGHTS and need to exercise those rights swiftly and legally.
You can find all kinds of reputable legal help online from locating a business attorney in Newport Beach to finding legal aide services in Pennsylvania. There is affordable legal counsel out there who can help you get compensation and help you protect your legal rights.
I remember you commenting and complaining about internet thieves. I didn’t realize that there now was a lawyer for intellectual property similar (I guess) to a copyrights lawyer.
Sounds almost as if you have had this hassle yourself. I don’t have a blog or any other kind of site that would bring about this issue, as a matter of fact I didn’t realize this existed. But in this day of cyber dishonesty it is good to know that a person has options.
Hi Robin
Thank you for your comments. Yes, I have dealt with internet thieves many times as I have been online and running businesses since 1996. However, the past 5 years have been terrible with people running around & stealing images, text, content, sponsors and all other types of things.
I educated myself on it and YUP…I fight back, legally if need be.