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What does copyright mean to you?

What does copyright mean to you?

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What does copyright mean to you?

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- Would you like to be sued for $250,000 the first day you start your business? Probably not, but that's a risk if you don't ask yourself another basic question. What does copyright mean to you? The fact is that Google Images has made it really easy to get access to images of every kind with a click of a mouse, but many business owners don't realize that taking an image from the web and using it on your website is usually a violation of someone's copyright and the cost of making this mistake can be massive. You must ask yourself these questions before you launch and every day afterwards. What images and text am I using? Did my people create it from scratch or did they poach it from someone else? If you can't answer these questions definitively, you may be in for expensive trouble and here's what you can do about it. Never take images from the web. Get images and video clips from royalty-free stock image websites,…

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