Helping eCommerce Entrepreneurs, Information Marketers, & Authors protect what's theirs—their valuable Intellectual Property!


Investing in an initial conversation with a legal expert BEFORE you venture into using or creating intellectual property can save you valuable time, energy, and money. Getting clear on your long-range strategy for protecting your valuable content, ideas, inventions, and more, is likely the best business judgment decision you can ever make. What kind of products will you create? What services will you engage in? Will you hire employees to create your products or will you engage the services of independent contractors? Should you spread out the creation of product over time, or is it best to produce everything at the outset? What do you want your company brand to represent? How will you protect that brand? Will your trademarks and copyrights be registered? Should they be? A competent attorney can assist you in answering these and other questions.

Why You Should Consult with an Attorney before Using Intellectual Content

Investing in an initial conversation with a legal expert BEFORE you venture into using or creating intellectual property can save you valuable time, energy, and money. Getting clear on your long-range strategy for protecting your valuable content, ideas, inventions, and more, is likely the best business judgment decision you can ever make. What kind of products will you create? What services will you engage in? Will you hire employees to create your products or will you engage the services of independent contractors? Should you spread out the creation of product over time, or is it best to produce everything at the outset? What do you want your company brand to represent? How will you protect that brand? Will your trademarks and copyrights be registered? Should they be? A competent attorney can assist you in answering these and other questions.


Different Types of Legal Issues Your Intellectual Property Lawyer Can Handle

An intellectual property lawyer can help you handle a variety of different types of legal issues.  There are many legal issues which are prevalent when it comes to anything that relates to digital content.  The increased use of the Internet has created many issues related to the formation and reproduction of digital creative works. This is why it is important to consult with an attorney to take advantage of the benefits that digital information can offer.

There are basically eight different categories of creative works which should be protected by copyright registration and the laws associated with it.  Your attorney can help you with copyright registration as well as with legal issues that accompany each particular type of work.

  • Broadcasts – This type of creative work includes media broadcasts such as television and radio which is intellectual property delivered via these media sources.
  • Literary Works:  Literary works include books, newspaper articles, case studies, dissertations, emails, ebooks, and other digital information.
  • Musical Works:  This category includes music recordings, scores, creative songs, and move soundtracks.
  • Sound Recordings:  This type of work includes recorded presentations, oral tapes, historic programs, and documentaries.
  • Drama Works:  Drama Works can include play manuscripts and performances, musicals, and play books.
  • Artistic Works:  This category covers creative works such as images, paintings, photos, and graphic design works.
  • Typographic Works:  This type of work can include website structure and design and translated digital content for websites.
  • Cinematography:  This category includes films and videos.

All of these categories have their own set of legal issues which range from intellectual property rights, clearing and managing digital rights, licensing, and protecting intellectual property, to name a few issues.

Other Reasons to Use an Intellectual Property Attorney

In addition to handling copyright registration, trademark registration, contracts, patents, trade secrets and other issues, an intellectual property lawyer can also help you with information technology issues that relate to organizations such as ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) which oversees the logistics of Internet Protocol addresses and domain names, ACPA (Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act) which aids in the prevention of cybersquatting which is the unlawful use of domain names and trademarks to profit from the goodwill associated with these names, and the UDRP (Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy) created under ICANN to protect trademarked domain names.

So as you can see there are many reasons you should use an intellectual property lawyer to handle all of the responsibilities which are associated with protecting your intellectual property. 

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