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Copyright lawyers play an important role in helping authors, artists, programmers, musicians, and photographers to take action against the infringement of their rights.
With copyright being such a complex area within intellectual property, many persons unknowingly infringe on the rights of the copyright holders. In other cases, people simply use copyrighted work without license agreements in place because they don’t care for the rights of others.
It doesn’t matter whether infringement takes place intentionally or on purpose, copyright lawyers can help you to take action against such infringement.
The Internet is one place where copyright infringement takes place on a daily basis. Persons new to website design often take pictures from other websites, borrow code, and even wording all without the written permission from the website owners.
This is not a new problem, but one that continues to plague the Internet. The sheer volume of web pages on the Internet makes monitoring of copyright infringement a nightmare.
You as the copyright holder however, can take steps to protect against such infringement, by disabling the right click button, adding special images within the images that will immediately identify copying of your images to another site, place copyright traps in the text, and have a page that warns against copyright infringement.
In addition you can make use of software to scan the Internet daily for any copyright infringement regarding written documents, images, music, and videos.
Should you find web pages where such infringement of your copyrights take place, get the help of copyright lawyers.
They will contact the website owner, hosting company and third party providers on the Internet to have the work removed. The copyright lawyers will advice you on further steps to be taken and will also handle litigation that needs to follow.
If you need assistance against copyright infringement, contact us at Smit & Van Wyk.
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