Archive for February, 2010
The Devil Wears Prada: Criminals Involved in Fake Goods Are Often Involved in Human Trafficking
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010On January 11, 2010, National Human Trafficking Awareness Month was launched across the U.S. Human trafficking involves horrible mistreatment of children, with some abuses too difficult to even speak of, much less imagine. Did you ever wonder who makes those “cheap” GUCCI knockoffs? Those DKNY items on street corners? Many of them may well have involved child labor, some of them akin to slavery.
What’s your copyright worth if it’s not registered prior to someone stealing your work?
Monday, February 1st, 2010Visual and graphic artists are particularly vulnerable to unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted images on the Internet. It’s literally a simple “right click,” “copy,” and “paste.” Many such infringements go undetected. Those that are discovered are often let go without remedial action.