Ladies and gents. Reminder that if your in-house staff or freelancers / service providers are providing you with work that involves potentially copyrighted material, make sure you let them know its not okay to use licensed material unless they (or certainly you) buy the license. And IF they insist they have a license, thats good but youll need a copy of the license (or check with your attorney, you might be able to get away with having a detailed invoice from them that includes that license as an item so you can pass the liability to them). Ive had images some designers wanted to use from Google images. Thinking its free. Ive had fonts designers used that were not free (blows my mind that a font is intellectual property but then I was never really an art guy). Ive had video snippet and sound effects that were not licensed free. And now, even after I asked a service provider to confirm if a bit of audio was royalty free, he assured me he owned the license... when I asked for a copy, he came clean that he took it from a popular Russian jingle but that it would never cause me problems here (in Canada). Not exactly sound legal advice. :-) Oh and if you want to stay small and have only you and your 11 buddies see the item... then you can probably use whatever you want. Still not legally but nobody will see it, therefore nobody will care. IF you want to run a proper business that is free of these types of liabilities and want wide exposure, you cant afford to be wasting $11,000+ here and there on infringement lawsuits. And if you need to understand IP law (intellectual property law) better, go hassle Andrei Mincov .
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 06:32:39 +0000
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