From the course: Copyright for Creatives: Protecting Your Work

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Reasonable email

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Reasonable email

- [Instructor] You've created your artwork, you own the copyright to your artwork, you've registered your copyright, your copyright has been infringed upon, and now you're responding to infringement. We covered the four types of infringers, now I want to go over several ways you can respond to each type of copyright infringement. Before you respond to any infringement, do some simple research on the individual or business first. Document as much as you can before you respond in any way. Collect visuals of clear usage, screenshots of websites, et cetera. Remember, don't give an infringer a heads-up before you respond. You want to hit them blind-sided with a concise, evidence-based response. After all, they didn't inform you before they ripped off your art. The first response method we'll cover is reasonable email. So, not too far back, I had a European hockey team take my hawk graphic and use it on all their uniforms and on their website and in other various ways. They way I responded…

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