To use music, or not to use music? That is the first question. The second question is: how to use it legally?
To use music or not to use music?
I’m of the opinion that you should NOT have music on your website – UNLESS you are a musician. I also think that in very rare circumstances...
Category Archives: Legal
Using Music On Your Wedding Business Website
If You’ve Been Plagiarized
This week we are discussing the ugly fact that there is theft in our industry. Wedding professionals are stealing intellectual property from one another. Intellectual property is the expression of original ideas. Today, we’ll address what to do if you’ve been plagiarized against.
According to plagiarism.org, all of the following are considered plagiarism:
turning in someone else’s...
How to Avoid and Detect Plagiarism
Yesterday, I brought up the ugly fact that there is a lot of theft in the wedding industry these days. Images, design, and writing are being stolen. SAD! It’s really upsetting when you think about it. I mean, here we are… an incredibly creative industry full of brilliant artists… we collaborate, we share, we learn...
Copying Content is Plagiarism and Theft
Recently, I stumbled upon someone using verbiage from my invitation website verbatim. The had literally copied and pasted text to their site. This is happening a lot in the wedding industry right now and it really confuses me. I don’t get steamed with a lot of stuff. I tend to have a pretty even-tempered feeling...
When NOT to Worry about Copy-Cats
I had something funny brought to my attention the other day. Apparently, there is a company that sells bacon-flavored envelopes. The are called “mmmvelopes“. I kid you not. My graphic designer thought they might be a trademark infringement on my brand, mmm… paper. Hmmm… that’s interesting. I do own the registered trademark on my company...