How to Protect Your Art from Being Stolen - Tips from a LAWYER

Welcome to today's "Heart of the Matter" video where I discuss social media for artists - I help you in learning the law and understanding your five rights. As a copyright lawyer, I also give you social media tips for artists. Are you one of the many artists on social media? If so, you're not going to want to miss this video. I take you through, step-by-step, the rules of social media. You can use these rules for your business or you can treat them as social media tips for individuals. In this video, I discuss the five, not 10 rules of using social media. You can also apply these concepts for a general social media for artists discussion and as a means to getting a copyright strike removed.

The best part of today’s video discussion on social media for artists is that you can get my FREE "Social Media for Artists" Checklist. I encourage you to download this Checklist, 100% FREE, and use it each time you need social media tips or generally want to understand the rules of social media and copyright law.

One thing that is really important to protect pieces of art, as artists on social media, is to register copyright USA. It is significant because it provides evidence to a later courtroom proceeding that you intended to protect your art, learning the law, and had no intention of giving up your copyright.

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[DominiqueHendersonCFP]

Good stuff @Ian! Does Right #1 hold up when content creators have their "art" on platforms like Itunes, Anchor, Spotify? I'd imagine those platforms can't use Right #2 to say this is "Spotify's Art" and we're going to use it now???

[AliceTChan]

Great info. I totally disagree with the court’s ruling ...unfair to the original artist. Especially when it’s so obviously ripped off.

[paulineenewman]

No the court missed the mark. That was clearly an injustice. I love seeing you out and about Ian. Thanks for sharing.

[CelyneSCI]

Wow, that blue dots case made my blood boil! Definitely a big, fat "NO!"

That ruling actually encourages vandalism and copyright infringement.
That ruling could be used to negate everything else discussed, like right to show, right to sell, register and even the shred of creativity right and Franklin could have won the case versus Apple.
Put blue dots on it = copyright automatically transferred. Paste a guitar on it = now have a right to make money off it.

So unfortunate. :(

[leeh]

That case was hogwash! A quarter of the photo was altered. That means 3/4 of the photo wouldn’t exist without the original artist’s input. 👎🏼 he should have been entitled to royalties the very least. There’s my two cents thanks to “The Good Wife”

[andylacivita]

Ian, this is great. I have a copyright lawyer that I pay about a thousand buck a minute. Lol. Little did I know I could get everything I know from your videos! Thanks brother!

[LindaArmstrong]

I think a big fat NO to the first question! And I'm thinking that the law is still a bit vague and people can probably find work arounds to basically steal someone's art, unfortunately. Seems a bit tricky.

[KC-vwhz]

Love the Chicago location! I don't think just the addition of blue eyes justified the "new" art. There needs to be a higher standard of creativity to justify someone saying "they created" something.

[AdrianaGirdler]

It's interesting that people are not supposed to be posting covers of songs - it seems like such a common thing to do now! Didn't know about the licenses you need. Great video, Ian, cheers!

[DooneyAddict]

No and the courts get it wrong often....IMO! Great content Ian!

[milburncherian]

I gave a painting for an auction, and it was returned, unsold. The auction house came to me for another work for an auction, and this new staff blurted without any clue of how her auction house scams artists that the painting earlier was sold. The original is with me. I kept quite. So they made a print on canvas, coated it and sold it as an original. What to do, I'm in India!! Help.

[supermelodia]

Another thing I noticed a lot on facebook on the sale area. Individuals ask others "what you got? show what you make". I see this a lot. And I always had in the back of my mind that these individuals want to copy you. they are not asking to show for them to buy.

[rayy_rat]

This is amazing, I am so happy that I found your channel! So I am an artist and I actually never knew about these rights. Thx for the great video!

[keithsills]

"Lawyered" takes a long time to become proficient at advising people about the law. It's a craft unto itself whether to use facts to disprove or defeat another's argument or protect your rights & property. The artistic creative recovery, which teaches techniques and exercises to assist people in gaining self-confidence in harnessing their creative talents and skills. Your academic discourse and everyday speech is an art form in of itself. Thank you for taking the time and supporting a community with clear well-organized information presented in a workable format and great technic.

[leonardsheatravel]

This is right up my alley. Thanks man. As a songwriter this was very informative! Thanks and nice to meet you.

[jujumacias]

I was thinking of creating a 2nd insta for my drawings. Im getting back into it. What should I do when it comes to making sure ppl dont screenshot it and claim it as theres for either making money from it or sumn else? I just wanna be sure and safe b4 I was to start posting my original art work. Thank u! Ur opinion is highly appreciated!

[RichTriggerBontrager]

Learning this stuff is huge. Thanks! Thanks BOSS !

[LindseyHazel]

Whoa Ian your videos have improved SO much compared to some of your first videos! Love all of the b-roll in this one! Thank you for explaining these rights and giving real life examples! There are SO many music licenses - when I do my video on how to find good music for YouTube I’ll definitely link back to your video for those who have questions! ♥️

[CelebrityQuizzer]

Ian, what a great post! I loved the information and the atmosphere you created! Great Job!

[adaml]

3:01 That case was decided in the 2nd circuit. Have others taken that as doctrine? Alphabet is in California, which tends to lean towards protecting the creator. (For obvious reasons)