This, to me, is the crux of the issue. The interchangeable use of “copyright” and “trademark”, a misunderstanding of intellectual property overall. Many critics were the types of people who would post a clip of a TV show with the description “no copyright intended” like it’s a viable sentence, even respectable YouTube creators were jumping on the…

Except intellectual “property” isn’t property. It is a (supposed temporary) license granted by our constitution to creators as an encouragement to create. Your “ownership” monopoly is subject to judicial interpretation of its constitutional roots. Therefore, for copyrighted work, we have concepts like fair-use, which have no analog to your ownership…

The Startup Glossary: Legal & IP

Posted by Drew Zias about 6 hours ago

The legal and intellectual property (IP) stage is a critically important element of creating a startup, where business matters are put onto paper and agreements become binding. Successful startups enter this…

They need to make that policy absolutely crystalline.

There’s too much haziness regarding intellectual property on the internet.

Big movers and shakers need to create some hard lines. They’re the only people who can.

The Fine Brothers Fiasco: One Bad Move to the Next

The Fine Brothers messed up. Maybe not in the way people think, but they messed up, none the less, as experienced YouTubers. You can defend and/or analyse the intellectual property issues which were misunderstood by some and not so much by…