Copyright Infringment Lawyer, Internet Defamation, and Internet Privacy

Intellectual Property Theft: Prevention and Recovery

Matt: Hi, and welcome back to Copyright Law Radio! I'm Matt Plessner. The laws of copyrighting and theft on the internet can be very undefined sometimes. The internet is a medium that's still very young, and thus can be subject to, I guess, kaleidoscope of different legal issues. We've referred to the internet as the "wild, wild west" in many of the interviews past, and that is very true. One such issue is intellectual property theft. Today, we're going to be discussing what this means, as well as some preventive and recovery methods. And of course, at Traverse Legal, we work with COPYSHIELD.COM which is a site that helps with matters such as these. And to help us with these we are welcoming Copyshields's very own Justin Mikula. Justin, we appreciate you taking some time to talk with us today.

Justin: Thanks for having me.

Matt: Now Justin....Well, for those people who haven't heard, I guess, our other interviews, can you just give us a little brief overview of Copyshield and what you do exactly?

Copyright Infringement Liability for Online Retailers

Weather you run a store on eBay or Amazon, operate your own ecommerce website, or otherwise sell goods online, you may face liability for the sale of goods that infringe the copyright of another. Well the digital millennium copyright act common namely section five twelve, provides protections to those internet service providers who are notified of infringement materials in comply with the statue, retailers may still face copyright infringement liability. If in fact they are selling their own products that are alleged to infringe another’s copyright, they may face directive copyright infringement liability. Moreover, if you are merely reselling third party products that are alleged to infringe the copyright of another, you may still face direct or secondary copyright liability.