{"id":30,"date":"2009-12-08T01:15:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businessofcraft.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2009\/12\/08\/protecting-your-ideas-in-a-digital-world\/"},"modified":"2009-12-08T01:15:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:15:30","slug":"protecting-your-ideas-in-a-digital-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/2009\/12\/08\/protecting-your-ideas-in-a-digital-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Your Ideas in a Digital World&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/Sx1wPdyt1zI\/AAAAAAAACxk\/U4OMIshW2mw\/s1600-h\/head-clickme2.gif\"><img style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;width: 119px;height: 200px\" src=\"http:\/\/businessofcraft.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cb6ef_head-clickme2.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter you know by now that one of my heroes\/mentors is Seth Godin.  Today his blog post was so important and rang so true for me that instead of writing a post I am directing you to his blog.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span><span title=\"View all emails with this subject\">Seth&#8217;s Blog : How to protect your ideas in the digital age<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span><\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re in the idea business, how to protect those ideas?<\/p>\n<p>One way is to misuse <strong>trademark<\/strong> law. With the help of search engines, greedy lawyers who charge by the letter are busy sending claim letters to anyone who even comes close to using a word or phrase they believe their client &#8216;owns&#8217;. News flash: trademark law is designed to make it clear who<em>makes<\/em> a good or a service. It&#8217;s a mark we put on something we create to indicate the source of the thing, not the inventor of a word or even a symbol. They didn&#8217;t invent trademark law to prevent me from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2009\/12\/how-to-protect-your-ideas-in-the-digital-age.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+typepad\/sethsmainblog+(Seth's+Blog)&amp;utm_content=Yahoo!+Mail\">FOLLOW THIS LINK<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/businessofcraft.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cb6ef_3342389675394866384-1934120489104633487?l=businessofcraft.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter you know by now that one of my heroes\/mentors is Seth Godin. Today his blog post was so important and rang so true for me that instead of writing a post I am directing you to his blog. Seth&#8217;s Blog : How to protect your ideas in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}