Copyright Protection for Your Images and Photographs

We are all aware that it is easy to cut and paste both content as well as photographs from the internet to personal documents as well as other locations on the internet.  Photograph and image owners, and artists, should consider copyright registration for their works, especially if those works appear on the internet.  Timely copyright registration will afford you the benefit of statutory damages and attorney fees from a copyright infringer in the event that your works are stolen and appear in an authorized location on the internet or any other location.  Consistent with the Traverse Legal promotion of technology in its legal practice, you should consider the use of technology to protect your images on the internet.  Digimarc is a company that provides watermarking solutions that protect and provide you the power to control your images on the internet.  Watermarking allows you to search for and track your watermarked images on the internet to detect infringers and to identify the source of an infringement.  Traverse Legal is experienced in locating and representing artists and photographers against copyright infringement on the internet. 

Contact Traverse Legal to discuss copyrighting your images and artwork or for discussing protection against copyright infringers of your works. 

Tips from Copyright Infringement Attorneys | Copyright Your Web Site

You have spent thousands of dollars and likely hundreds of hours developing your web site.  It always makes sense to spend the $30.00 copyright registration fee in order to protect your content.  Copyrighting your web site creates a public record of your work.  If anyone infringes on your web site's intellectual property, you are in a position to sue for copyright infringement.  However, you must register with the copyright office.

Hollywood Faces New Piracy Threat, This Time From Cyber-lockers

In addition to the rapidly growing popularity of downloading ‘pirated’ films for free over the Internet Film companies now have to deal with subscription sites that utilize ‘cyberlockers’. Cyber-lockers are characterized on Yahoo News as being run by foreign, often mob-run, businesses that aggregate illegally obtained movies into internet storage sites. These for-profit storage sites are spawning an array of sophisticated and reputable-looking ‘cyberlockers’ and usually enable users to download an unlimited amount of digital movie files for  a flat rate (usually as little as $5 a month).

In addition or in replace subscription fees, cyberlocker sites also make advertising off of (hopefully) unwitting mainstream advertisers such as KFC and Netflix. These advertisers typically are notified by the film companies that they are advertising on a site used to facilitate the illegal download of copyrighted material and then the ads are usually taken down. But the process keeps continuing, with ‘cyberlocker’ sites becoming more and more lucrative and prevalent on the Internet.

Internet Slander Law | Posting Defamatory Comments Could Subject You In Another State

Be careful who you defame, and where you defame them.  If they are located in a far away state, you might be dragged into court and sued for online defamation in a far away state.  You probably don't know an internet slander attorney there.  And it is going to cost you money to defend the case.