Legal Question in Intellectual Property in California
I am developing a website that offers marketing templates to small businesses. This includes an interactive template to help company's write their own press releases. Since most of the content is my own intellectual property based on my own industry experience, what is the best to protect the content that I create? Is it by adding my copyright information to everything? Can you suggest verbiage/language that I should include on my website, and on template documents that I allow people to download for a fee from my site?
2 Answers from Attorneys
No one will review that for free. Your issue is complex, even though you think it is simple. See a Cali IP attorney for help.
To protect material you write, including templates, I strongly advise actually copyrighting it, and each significantly-different version thereof. Then, use the circle-C device and indicate the date of copyright on all covered material. Tell clients (in writing) that the fee covers a limited license to use, but not re-sell, etc., the material you furnish. Maybe buy yourself a paperback self-help law book for authors covering how to protect your material by copyright. Oh, and please note that "company's" is the possessive, not the plural, of "company."
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