﻿{"id":68,"date":"2009-12-07T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-07T21:17:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T21:17:52","slug":"protecting-your-ideas-in-a-digital-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/2009\/12\/07\/protecting-your-ideas-in-a-digital-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Your Ideas in a Digital World&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" 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;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 119px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_dYOW3_y9xoY\/Sx1wPdyt1zI\/AAAAAAAACxk\/U4OMIshW2mw\/s200\/head-clickme2.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412605738166900530\" \/><\/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 class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\" color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; font-family:arial, sans-serif;\"><span widget=\"\" cmd=\"msgaction_ext:subjectSearch\" class=\"cgSelectable cgSelectable-over\" title=\"View all emails with this subject\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer; \">Seth&#8217;s Blog : How to protect your ideas in the digital age<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\" ;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; \">If we&#8217;re in the idea business, how to protect those ideas?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; \">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 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; \"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; \">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 class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/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 protec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,7,71,69,70,72,73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/businessofcraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}