Online content theft is rampant, which is why it’s important to know some of the ins and outs of digital copyright infringement. Whoa, boy. It happened: Someone ripped you off. Stole your stuff lock, stock and barrel. Maybe they even had the audacity to tweak it a bit, hoping you wouldn’t recognize it.But you found out, and now you’re mad. And for good reason: It’s yours, and you should be fierce about defending what you create.
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Sharing Without Stealing: A Simple Guide to Online Copyrights
Internet content isn’t all free, and not everything is yours for the taking just because you found it online. Get the legal facts about 5 common copyright myths. Stealing is just plain lazy. And when you steal someone else’s content, you’re telling the world you’re above the law. You’re saying that a picture you found online of a sofa drawn by an illustrator is of less value than the sofa in your very own living room—the sofa you paid for and would be downright angry about should you come home and find it missing.
Dinosaurs Are Not Extinct: The Tech Illiterate Lawyer – And the Case For Change, Part 2
Shocking as it may seem, the legal world is replete with tech illiterate lawyers who do not understand how to use basic technology like email and word processing programs. This becomes a problem when more complicated technology comes into the picture – like E-discovery – and tech illiteracy begins to translate into ineffi-ciency and increased […]
Dinosaurs Are Not Extinct: The Tech Illiterate Lawyer – And the Case for Change, Part 1
The Information Age has arrived, and its daily growth rate turns out to be faster than many of us can comprehend. Even fewer of us can adequately cope. Things are measured against the speed of light in a world dominated by ones and zeros. As one astute observer put it: “In an era of unprecedented […]