Copyright

Did You Just Get Slapped With A Trademark Violation?

Fruit crate label for Sunkist California Oranges

This will set you back on your heals… and may give you a sick feeling in your belly.
All of us have to be so very careful when it comes to Trademark Violations… which is a totally different animal than public domain.
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Are These Public Domain Images Copyright Protected Or Not?

This is one of those cases of “Is this copyright protected or not”? That little tiny bit of wording at the bottom of a website that says everything on this website is copyright protected will stop most Public Domain content researchers dead in their tracks. But… is everything “really” protected under the copyright laws???
First… let’s [...]

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Public Domain News March 2011- Will Congress Remove Works From The Public Domain?

WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 8: A television camera c...

Another one of those “Silly Goose” times – where someone thinks that the internet is Public Domain:
A law firm that targets the unauthorized use of news content on the Internet has filed 32 lawsuits in federal court in Colorado seeking to stop the use of a Denver Post photograph showing an airport pat-down. [...]

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Claude C. Hopkins Book Public Domain or Not

I found a link to this in my email yesterday:

http://www.billiondollaradsecrets.com/
hmmm… I have a few questions about this “too good to be true” offer.  (of course it’s an offer – no one would give all these “forbidden secrets” away for free – right?)
Is there recorded evidence of Hopkins publishing a 3rd book?
If they really did discover [...]

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Using Public Domain Content To Create Valuable Bonuses & Free Thank You Gifts

You probably already know that you can use Public Domain content to create products, right?
Ok, duh. That’s a given…
But, I read an article today by Internet Marketing “guru” Yanik Silver about using Public Domain material in other ways to add additional value to existing products. You don’t always have to sell Public Domain content as [...]

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US Government PD Works in UK

After I released my new Government Public Domain Content book I received an email from John:

Hi Debra,
Thanks for the manual re US Government PD works – very impressive and comprehensive.
Being UK based and taking the advice in your manual, I sent off a question regarding my use of this information to the UK [...]

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How To Use PLR errr… Public Domain Content

Wedding Planner G.A.G.

Image by Paul Chenoweth via Flickr

I am busy as a bee working on the wedding plans for my son (I am the designated wedding planner)… and today I realized that I hadn’t sent you anything new in about a week!
Today I got a email directing me to a great video about using PLR – which [...]

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Public Domain News December 2010

Among all the other plates I have spinning – I’m spending more time keeping up on what’s in the Public Domain News.
First… this is important for everyone – It’s about protecting your Copyright protected content:
State of the World Wide Web
I’m jl scott, Founder and Director of the International Council of Online Professionals (iCop™). Members of [...]

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The Internet Is Not Public Domain You Silly Goose

Learning to use Public Domain content is fun.  I can get lost for hours reading…  it’s one of the “good problems” we all have.
Quite often I come across a bit of news regarding the use of Public Domain content.
I’m not a news junkie… but I figure if the news is about something related to my [...]

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Official Public Domain Treasure Hunter’s Survival Kit Review Part 1

I’m calling this an Official Review for several reasons.

I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea and think that I am reviewing a different product than our own. Nope – this is an official review of our own product.
I want to make sure that when this series of review articles show up in [...]

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