There Are Things More Essential than Saving Money

| Tuesday, February 15, 2011
By Mike Gallaham


There will always be a lot to consider and consider when you are starting up your business. One of your greatest anxieties is what kind of money everything is going to cost you. Your website will be expensive. Promotion will probably cost even more. Finding a person that will help you with things will probably cost lots of money. You may even be slightly tempted to cut corners. The simple fact is that, while it is important to figure out some ways you could save some money, sometimes this kind of thing can even hurt you. You could get incredibly hurt. The area that it affects you the most is when you violate copyright along with intellectual property laws. Check out all these examples.

Stealing internet site models. It is one thing to obtain a no cost theme for your website as well as to use a free website builder. Totally stealing another individual's design, however, is a seriously terrible idea. Obviously the internet is a giant place and it isn't very likely that the original artist is ever going to be made aware of your theft but that doesn't mean that you should take the chance. If you really love the design and are looking for a design for your own site, why not just get in touch with the site owner or the original designer and ask that they give you permission to use the design or ask the original designer how much it will cost to develop a new design that is just yours.

Using pictures and photos not having permission. Just because you find a graphic or photo during a Google image search does not necessarily mean that that graphic or photo is a part of the public domain. When Google indexes an image, they put up a url to the original website on which that image is discovered. This is fine. Posting the photo or graphic with your site before you obtain permission from the owner or the creator, however, is a violation of copyright law. If the owner finds this, you could get sued. Always speak to the image owner first for permission to work with the picture. You could be charged some cash but it is sure to be less than you would have to pay after getting sued. If your finances are low, you can always search for free images or images launched with the Creative Commons licenses that allow people to use images commercially. Those are usually fine for open use.

Using someone's published written content. If you wish to employ content that is not your own on your website, you'll want to make sure that you give credit to the original creator of the content. If the content you use is from another web page, it is imperative that you make sure you put up a link to that site. This can help you obtain the favor of the original writer. If you don't offer credit or backlinks to the original author, you can get in substantial trouble for copyright infringement and intellectual property theft. You'll spend far more for the infringement than it could cost you to simply link to the original or even to hire someone to create the original content for you.

It is obviously far better to err on the side of caution with regards to building your business. Saving money is definitely something you need to do but make absolutely certain that you save it legally. If you don't then you definitely may just be facing a much larger cost than you would have otherwise.




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