Tips and tricks for handling copyrighted content on the internet
Toronto lawyer and trade-mark agent Ashlee Froese recently shared her thoughts on handling copyrighted content, the importance of legal advice for copyright owners and how copyright law applies on Twitter as part of a Social Media Ref event in Toronto, hosted by Cision Canada.
“Copyright law is not the simplest piece of legislation, there’s a misconception that if something’s on the internet, it’s a free-for-all for everyone to take and I think that hopefully, people have learned that it’s the exact opposite. If something is on the internet, think about it first before you use it, republish it or what have you,” says Froese, a lawyer with Gilbert’s LLP. Watch Cision Canada video – the major takeaways from the social media ref
In terms of user-submitted content on Twitter, Froese says “the general rule with Twitter is you are responsible for all of the content that you post on there. However, you’re giving the Twitter platform a non-exclusive licence to reproduce or republish that. So basically you’re saying ‘I’m going to upload it, do with it what you will’, but you’re still responsible for it.” Watch Cision Canada video – user-submitted content and the shared space
Froese’s practice focuses on trade-mark and copyright prosecution and conducting trade-mark availability and registrability searches. She also has a keen interest in assisting fashion designers protect their creative ingenuity and maintains the website www.canadafashionlaw.com, which looks at the business and law of fashion from a Canadian perspective.
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