SOCIAL MEDIA & ONLINE PLATFORMS – IP TIPS & GUIDELINES ON TAKEDOWNS
Join a FREE ACID webinar at 11am on 10 November 2021
With the expansion of global markets come the challenges of finding solutions when copying is discovered on social media and online platforms. In the second of this webinar series, Kelly Hudson – Chartered Trademark lawyer and IP specialist from McDaniels Law (one of ACID’s Legal Affiliates) will help us by providing tips, guidelines, and solutions to removing infringing copies.
When: 10 November at 11am
Where: Online via Zoom – click to register
What to expect? In this 45-minute webinar with 15 minutes Q & A, designers, designer-makers and manufacturers will be guided through the fundamentals of IP; before launching into how you take practical steps to protect your online content and bolster your confidence in navigating what, to many, is a maze.
Who should attend? This webinar is for all designers, designer-makers and manufacturers at all stages of their careers, who are keen to learn more about navigating their way around online social media platforms and how to meet unauthorised online-misuse with confidence.
What will you takeaway?
Angus Gardner, MD of Caroline Gardner Publishing said, “Intellectual Property is very much at the heart of the Caroline Gardner Publishing brand and every time a new product is designed a copy is lodged on the ACID IP Databank. Our cards have an extremely loyal following and are both instantly recognisable and highly sought after by a diverse group of consumers. We are pleased to be part of the ACID Community and support ACID’s consistent aims to raise awareness about IP infringement and press urgently for design law reforms.”
Designers face many business challenges – not least navigating around the different social media platforms. It can be daunting discovering knock-offs and being unsure of what to do. With this in mind, why not take some time to learn some simple steps you can take to stop unauthorised use of your content (©)?. Whatever your design sector, content is king and more importantly – YOUR content. This is all underpinned by intellectual property, which needs to be protected.
Navigating around the labyrinth that is social media and how it affects designers from an intellectual property perspective is a hot topic. Whether you are creating your own content or sharing images or videos, you need to ensure that you protect your IP rights and, just as importantly, make sure you are not inadvertently infringing the rights of others
British designers and makers are some of the best in the world but unfortunately, there are those that want to take the fast track to market by free riding on your content online without your permission. Now is the time to gain knowledge to be more proactive.
Further Information – On 10 November at 11am, ACID’s co-founder and CEO Dids Macdonald, OBE., will introduce Kelly Hudson – Design Law expert, Trademark Attorney and Director of ACID’s legal Affiliate, McDaniel’s Law, to share some of her practical insights into building a proactive intellectual property strategy to beat online infringement and unauthorised use of YOUR content. Taking a few steps to better understand the laws that protect designers can make all the difference.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS – Kelly Hudson, has a first-class degree (LLB Hons Exempting) Degree and is a Registered European Trade Mark Attorney. She joined McDaniels Law in 2008 as a Trainee Solicitor and remained with the firm following qualification. She is now a Director specialising in Intellectual Property.
Kelly has experience across a range of IP matters, particularly in Trade Mark, Copyright and Design matters. This work includes both dealing with protection strategies and enforcement and litigation matters having conducted cases on clients’ behalf in both the High Court and the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court. Kelly has significant experience in Trade Mark matters including filing and prosecution of UK, CTM, foreign and Madrid trade mark applications, trade mark opposition and cancellation proceedings. Kelly has a good commercial focus and can identify and assist in meeting clients’ actual business needs. This enables her to give structured legal advice with a clear commercial focus. Previously, Kelly worked on secondment one day per week with a major UK fashion brand over a three-year period and therefore has a significant understanding of brand management and development issues.
Random fact: Kelly once ran a half marathon dressed as a giant banana!
Dids Macdonald, OBE., has over 30 years’ experience within the design industry initially owning an interior design company and latterly as a designer-maker. She launched ACID (Anti Copying in Design) because her products were consistently copied. ACID began informally in 1996 as a round table action group and has developed into a not-for-profit trade organisation representing thousands of designers within the creative industries. Dids lectures widely on IP issues concentrating on lone, micro and SME’s both nationally and internationally. In June 2015 Dids was made an Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) and the same month Dids was also made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in Her Majesty’s Birthday Honours for her services to the design industry. ACID is supported by the Alliance for Intellectual Property of which Dids is Vice Chair.
Random fact: Dids was once air cabin crew on Concorde!
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