If you are in business chances are your marketing plan includes some sort of social media. Your social media goals include increasing your following and interaction on these platforms. You know the importance of building your email list so that you can stay connected to your followers on your own terms. For many the disabling of the popular Hollywood gossip site The Shade Room’s Facebook page was an epic reminder of exactly why having your own list is important.   For me, it served as an epic reminder of why copyright awareness is important to business owners.

Young entrepreneur, Angelica Nwandu’s popular social media page, was shut down yesterday after multiple violations of copyright infringement. At the end of 2015 my Markers (the name my lovely legal intern and I just came up with for the wonderful ambitious entrepreneurs and business owners that follow me who are leaving their mark on the world) made a vow to implement better business practices. It’s 2016 and some business owners are still playing games as it relates to using material that does not belong to them. They choose to rely on common copyright myths instead of learning the facts. I am hosting a free webinar to discuss and dispel these myths but here are three things you should know about copyright infringement. Read about the three myths here