iCopyright for Creators!!!

Are you an artist? Photographer? Writer? Then if you have heard of iCopyright for Creators, you're probably already signed up. If you haven't heard of it, it may be just what you're looking for!

In this day and age, it's quite startling how many people copy and paste another's work. That could be happening to your work! You worked hard on it, you created it, it's yours, so you should get the benefits of it! With iCopyright for Creators, your work will be tagged online. This will allow you to assign a variety of different licensing options to your work. You can allow free uses such as a limited amount of free printings, or paid licenses such as purchased copies, or reprint rights or other services such as contacting you, the artist. All of these options are controlled by you. Allow some or all, it's your choice. You get complete control of options and pricing of your licenses. More importantly, the tag will allow the copyright information to be attached to the work letting customers know who owns the copyright - namely you!

iCopyright for Creators is free so sign up at http://creators.icopyright.com.

Your work should speak for itself - so let it!

Cut, Copy, Paste Kills Copyright (for now)

I am often asked by publishers, "Who is iCopyright's biggest competitor?" The answer is not usually obvious and takes them by surprise: "Cut, Copy and Paste!" It has 90% of the available market. That's right. The most generous estimates are that less than 10% of the content that is emailed, copied, posted, republished, or otherwise repurposed for commercial and educational purposes (as opposed to personal use), is done so with a valid license. Contrary to what content owners think, iCopyright does not compete with the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), Mochilla, Voxant, Macrovision, Attributor, or any of the other content licensing or syndication solutions on the market. Collectively, these solutions have less than 10% of the market...mere scraps.

iCopyright competes against a culture that tolerates (and even encourages) people to take other people's content with impunity. One might ask, "How can iCopyright possibly compete with that?" That's a longer and more complicated answer, best saved for another blog.

Here's a hint: In the 1980's and early 1990's, 80% of all software was copied and distributed freely without a license, in violation of the publisher's copyrights. Today, only about 10% of software is pirated -- mostly in countries with weak copyright education and enforcement. The vast majority of software is legally licensed. The tide did turn for software and will eventually do so for digital content. Cut, Copy, Paste may be killing copyright today, but in the long run, copyright will prevail. iCopyright is helping to lead the way.