Have Social Media Copycats Caused You to Be Overly Protective of Your Creative Ideas?
You have great ideas about creative projects you want to do and share on social media, but will someone steal your work?
From exploration to ideation to execution, your creative projects take time, effort, and money before you introduce them to the world. And while you want to share your works of art with others, the social media copycats got ya shakin’ in your artistic boots.
What do you do? Yes, you can copyright, patent, and trademark. But with a smaller platform, if you copyright, patent, and trademark everything you do, it will break the bank.
So, how do you know which creative projects to protect from a plagiarist/thief on social media ready to claim your work as their own?
Disclaimer: This information is for education purposes only. I am not an attorney. Please seek a legal professional for all legal advice.
If you’re like me, in the future, as your writing career and digital publishing business grows, you will have to do more to protect your creative work. But in the meantime, your projects are small, but you don’t have a big enough platform to ward off copycats.
Here are some simple actions I am taking for now:
- Email a copy of the work to…
