Stay On the Right Side of Copyright & Trademark Law

Learn to Protect Yourself in the Digital Age

Do you know when it’s safe to use a photo taken from the Internet for a blog post or advertisement? To use popular music behind a video? To embed a video into your website? If not, you can learn the basics of online copyright and trademark law in this session.

• Discover how to protect yourself from copyright infringement claims about your blogs, videos and website.
• Learn about copyright’s application to social networking.
• Find out how to use a competitor’s trademark safely — and to guard your own.

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Dr. Ashley Packard is a professor of communication and digital media studies at the University of Houston — Clear Lake. There, she chairs the communication program and teaches in the digital media studies graduate program.