Bloggers Stay Alert From Copyrights

Bloggers Stay Alert From Copyrights!

Bloggers should be pay great attention to copyright and blogging rules in order to delivery an interesting blog that audience will enjoy reading. 

In regards to the type of blog you write or your blog audience size, there are always legal issues bloggers need to consider, understand and follow. The rules and legal issues are in addition to the blogging rules that every blogger should follow if they want to get into blogging community and have a chance for their blogs to be popular and keep on growing. 

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If your blog is public and you don't want to get into legal trouble, then you need to keep reading and learn about the legal issues for bloggers listed below. Ignorance isn't a viable defense in a court of law. The responsibility is on the blogger to learn and follow laws related to online publishing.

Therefore, follow the blogging rules and issues relates to blogging and always check with an attorney if you're not sure if it's legal to publish specific content or not (This relates to any size of blog you are writing on "High profile businesses or individuals"). When in doubt, don't publish it. 

You cannot publish untrue information about anyone or anything that could negatively affect that person or thing's reputation on your public blog. It doesn't matter if you get no traffic to your blog. If you publish something false about a person or entity that could damage their reputation, you've committed libel and could be in big trouble.

Copyright Legal Issues

Copyright laws protect the original creator of a work, such as written text, an image, a video, or an audio clip, from having that work stolen or misused. For example, you can't republish another person's blog post or article on your blog and claim it as your own. That's plagiarism and a copyright violation. Furthermore, you can't use an image on your blog unless you created it, have permission to use it from the creator, or the image has been copyrighted by the owner with a license that allows you to use it.

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If your blog is related to a large size company and contains copyright issues, the company will not be pleased but happy to sue you for copyright infringement.

Company Trademark Legal

Companies communications typically use the copyright registration symbol © or the Service Mark or Trademark symbol following the trademarked name or logo the first time of that name or logo is mentioned.When other companies refer to competitors or other brands in their business communications, they are expected to include the appropriate copyright symbol.

If you use a trademarked brand name or logo in anyway to mislead visitors to your blog into thinking you're affiliated with the trademark owner or represent the owner in any way, you will get in trouble. Even if you use a trademark symbol, you'll get in trouble. That's because you can't mislead people into thinking you have a relationship with a trademark owner that could affect commerce in any way when in reality you don't have such a relationship.

Privacy

Privacy and internet have a solid relationship between them. In the most basic terms, you cannot capture private information about visitors to your blog and share or sell that information to a third party without permission from each person. 

If you do collect data about visitors in any way, you need to disclose it. Most bloggers provide a Privacy Policy on their blogs to explain how data is used.

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