Sooner this month, June 2017, we had the privilege of attending the MAPPING Conference on the Future of IPR in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Conference addressed the deficiencies and shortcomings of the current system of protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in the European Union and worldwide. The IP experts attending, from a wide variety of backgrounds, The IP experts attending… Read more →
Let’s imagine that you find your work is being shared or sold somewhere, online, without your permission. What to do? Firs of all, stay calm. As we always say, the best policy is to refrain from following your first impulse, which may be to send an angry email to the offender. Maybe they misunderstood the work’s license, or they made… Read more →
Last year, on September 14th, the European Commission proposed a package of modern rules “for European culture to flourish and circulate”. (We encourage you to read the complete press release for more detailed information.) This package of rules is a key part of the European Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy (DMSM). We think it is important for you to know… Read more →
After Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, and with Christmas coming, your Facebook newsfeed must have been filled with ads for days. This article is aimed at helping you stop impulsive purchases and encourage you to do a little research before paying. Some of the most popular items that we’ve seen on ads these days are (surprise, surprise) jumpers, mugs,… Read more →
During the first three days of this November, Safe Creative travelled to Prague to attend the Second General Assembly of the MAPPING project. This is a European initiative created to propose alternative solutions to privacy, intellectual property rights, and Internet governance. We wish to thank the event’s organisational team for the chance of participating in these three days of talks and… Read more →
Last month, Google received over 91 million URL removal requests, from copyright holders and organizations who represent them. This number has been increasing month by month: Since there’s an increasing number of people who decide to take action and claim their copyrights when their works are being misused online, it makes sense that more tools should appear to facilitate making… Read more →
The dream of many artists is to turn their passion into their full-time job. If that’s your case, and you are considering to take the first steps in that direction, making money out of your works, then these tips might help you. There are many different ways to get started. In this particular case, we want to focus on the… Read more →
If you use the Internet to spread your works and share them with the rest of the world, it is possible that you will eventually come across someone else who is using them without your permission. Sometimes, they even pretend to be the original author! In such cases, the first thing you can do is send a Cease and Desist… Read more →
This week, from February 22nd to the 28th, we celebrate the Fair Use Week. And it arrives just in time. Since last week, all YouTube has been talking about this subject, claiming the rights of certain Youtubers to use fragments from movies, video games, etc., in their own videos. For further information, follow the hashtag #WTFU (Where’s the Fair Use?) on social… Read more →
Licenses are present almost every time we share content online. We can be more or less aware of their role, but they are still there. Sometimes we use them so other people can know the specific conditions to use our works; other times, we use them to search songs, images or videos for our own projects. Lots of platforms such… Read more →
