Copyright Basics: How to Protect Your Work from Piracy

Protect your most valuable asset - your intellectual property.

Created by: Len Smith
Freelance copywriter and communications consultant

Created by: Sean Kaye
Enterprise Technologist and Online Marketing Expert

What Will I Learn?

• In this course you will learn the basics necessary to protect your work from piracy – including how to create the copyright symbol © on your PC or Mac
• The difference between copyright, patenting and trade mark protection. Why protecting a product design is different from a graphic design.
• The ins and outs of registering copyright
• The misconceptions - and there are lots!
• How to find out if someone has already registered a trademark
• How the music industry and book publishers are protecting themselves against internet Pirate sites
• How, even as a one-man band, you can get someone who infringes your copyright to desist - without going to law.

Requirements

• None

Target audience

• Anyone who wishes to protect their creative work from piracy – writers, artists, graphic designers, website owners and developers, photographers, musicians, start-ups.