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happy holidays; new article on site

Posted on | December 19, 2007 | No Comments

Howdy all! I hope that everybody’s holiday season is happy and bright so far. Remember to take a breath and don’t let those nasty shoppers get the best of you in the mall parking lot!

I added a new article to the site…it’s got a lot of helpful information about protecting the content on your website.

Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents, Oh My! Understanding Intellectual Property


By Kelly Sims (c) 2007

You are a business owner with a web presence. During a routine Google search for your page ranking, you discover something disturbing. There is another company out there with a name very similar to yours and almost identical content on their website. What do you do? Is your company name and website content automatically protected by copyright law? Should you have registered your company name as a trademark? Can you demand that they change their name and dismantle their website immediately?

Intellectual Property can be a confusing topic, and one that all business owners should know about. Sadly however, many entrepreneurs simply don’t. Intellectual property is in very simple terms an idea that legally belongs to somebody, be they a company or an individual. Only the owner of that idea, or somebody the owner has a legal agreement with can use the idea. Generally, the owner of the idea is usually its creator unless someone paid them to create the idea, in which case the idea’s owner is the person who paid for the idea. There are different kinds of intellectual property, but for the purpose of this article, we will focus on copyright, patent and trademark.

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