This week I listened to a few podcast and I was surprised by what I found out about some of the legal liabilities that could make your company or break your company.
Let’s start with Trademark laws, there are many new trademark laws coming into existence when it come to domain names not only in the USA but in other countries as well. Brazil has recently added Trademark and Patent laws when it comes to domain names and advertising with upcoming Olympics coming there in 2016. The Brazilian PTO has recently made changes to many laws that will take a few years to take effect. I suggest that you listen to this podcast very informative about new laws that may be important if your company has ties overseas.
I also listened to a podcast on non-compete agreements. There were many great things I got out of it, from my standpoint I will try to get my employees and individuals I hire to sign them but like they talked about in the podcast I will have to pay more if I expect someone to be exclusive to me when I hire freelancers.
The last podcast I listened to was a Citizen Media Law podcast. This podcast talked about copyright laws. The biggest thing that I took from this and wanted to touch on was how the copyright laws recognize fair use. I can understand from one point why this would be applied in some cases but as a creator I do not believe it is fair to the creator. I believe that the final say should come from the original creator. The way I see it if there use is fair to both parties then it will most likely be given permission to be used, if not then the person wanting to use the creation should have to be forced to look elsewhere.
I strongly suggest that you take the time to listen to the following podcast.
Reference:
Trademark Law Podcasts http://www.lexisnexis.com/community/downloadandsupportcenter/media/p/51.aspx
Freelance Radio, Episode 40: Non-Compete Agreements
Citizen Media Law Podcast #6: Copyright & Fair Use in Savage v. CAIR (Audio podcast)
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