Copyright Caveats

Posted October 22nd, 2009 by admin

Let’s take a quick quiz on copyrights.
Question 1
You write a rhyming recipe book, indicate your copyright with ©, and register it with the Copyright Office. Someone then clearly takes one of your recipes and puts them in their own recipe book.
Has your copyright been infringed?
Answer
No. Copyrights, and patents and trademarks, for that matter,  don’t protect [...]

The Truth About Trademarks

Posted October 7th, 2009 by admin

A trademark is one of the most important things any company can own, and yet many people with new businesses know next to nothing about them.
Here’s what I’ve learned for my part, some of it painfully, but thankfully not fatally.
Trademarks are for phrases, names, and logos. The most important thing to trademark is usually your [...]