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Could You Be the Victim of a Copyright Scam?

http://freshdesignza.ca/blog/could-you-be-victim-copyright-scam/

Publisher:  Fresh Designza
Date Written:  04/08/2014
Year Published:  2014  
Resource Type:  Article

Some tips for avoiding scammers that try to make people pay them money for supposed copyright infringement.

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The first type of copyright scheme involves a content creator distributing a piece of content such as an image as free-to-use and making it available for people to share, then relabeling it with a more restrictive license.

The owner of that image then uses a program to crawl the internet and track down every copy of that image and figures out who is using it.

Once the scammer has a list of targets, they can change the license and demand their victims pay them a licensing fee, threatening a law suit if they don’t....

Scammers specialize in posing as legitimately honest people, so many victims never even know they were scammed.

Being familiar with copyright law and knowing how a legitimate copyright infringement claim is handled is the only sure way to determine when you are being targeted by a scammer.

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