Archive for the ‘Internet Law’ Category

I’ll be speaking on social networking ethics this Wednesday, September 8, at the Americana Music Festival in downtown Nashville, if you want to join the conversation in person. In case you can’t make it, I thought I’d give you a sneak-peek with the following legal tips on social-networking for musicians and artists:

Blogging seems as innocent as jotting down your daily musings in a diary. But with blogging, 1) you’re revealing those musings to the world, and 2) you’re inviting the world to muse along with you. Those important differences bring bloggers within the realm of…gulp…THE LAW.

How lucky we are to have the Internet nowadays to market our creative wares — whether our song or drawing or poem. But with this new marketing frontier comes a new risk: ease of theft of the work by a mere click of a mouse.

You might be one of the many who recently lost a job. And you might be one of the many who’s turned lemons into a lemonade stand and parlayed unemployment into that new business you’ve always dreamed of launching. When you’re starting your new business, you’re more likely thinking about budgets and net profits than trademarks and copyrights. But an important part of your business is its intellectual property, and considering your intellectual property up front can save you money and trouble down the road. Read on for four questions every new business owner should answer before displaying the “open” sign.