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Legal support for blogger
Over the past decade, for millions of people around the world, blogging and content creation sphere has become not just an example of a personal hobby aimed at a narrow circle of people with the same interests, but an official source of stable income with a huge audience. However, even nowadays for many authors, it remains an informal way of spending time, bringing in some income from advertising contracts, monetization on platforms and collaborations.
Does blogging require legal formalities?
The mentioned approach cannot be considered correct, since it carries the risks of not only losing additional income for honestly performed work or violating your intellectual property rights, but can also lead to a direct violation of the law, which will cause formal liability for the creator of the content.
In order to avoid such consequences, the Law&Trust International team has prepared this article, which will introduce to you the possible risks of uncontrolled blogger activity, and also explain how exactly we can help you avoid them.
Why is proper legal support important?
A blogger's career, like any other business, requires careful and timely legal support to minimize risks and optimize your income. We consider the following reasons to be especially important when assessing the need for legal assistance for this area of activity:
- Firstly, the goal of any business is to obtain the maximum possible income, while incorrect support of the blogger's activities can lead to significant financial losses, both due to the misconduct of your counterparties and due to incorrect tax planning.
- secondly, the observance of your rights must be guaranteed, this concerns not only your rights under contracts with partners, but also legal rights to intellectual property objects, which you own by the fact of creation. Almost any of your articles, photographs, videos or paintings is a unique work, the rights to which are granted to you by law.
- Equally important is the correct observance of applicable laws, as countries often impose certain restrictions on the content that can be published in their territory. The rules may vary depending on the jurisdiction, but their observance is mandatory.
Risks of Lack of Proper Planning
As mentioned above, lack of proper planning can lead to significant risks, expressed in both financial losses and legal consequences for the author:
- The primary and most obvious risk is the loss of funds. This can happen either due to non-compliance with legal regulations and the imposition of a fine, or conducting activities that create a taxable base in a jurisdiction with high tax rates, or as a result of direct losses caused by fraud on the part of counterparties and partners, which occurs due to inattentiveness to cooperation agreements. In extreme cases, this may also lead to the loss of rights to the content you create.
- Violation of the law can lead to serious legal liability, expressed not only in fines, but also in criminal prosecution. Each country has a certain number of restricted topics that you must avoid in your work, and since their list can change depending on the political situation and public attitude, it can be difficult to track such changes in time.
- the risk of losing the rights to your content, especially for an author planning to work together with other bloggers or through agencies.
Our services
To provide you with the most comfortable and stable format for developing your business, we offer you a range of services that will help protect your interests and optimize profits in all available ways.
- As a basic service, we are ready to conduct a comprehensive analysis of your activities to determine possible prohibited topics, in accordance with your jurisdiction, violations of tax laws, violations of the copyrights of others, as well as to create a list of your intellectual property rights that can be protected, analyze current contracts with your contractors and partners, help you choose the right form of organizing your activities.
- In the future, we will be glad to have long-term cooperation with you, during which we can help with tax analysis of your activities in order to fully legitimize your income.
- We can also help you register copyrights, trademarks, and other rights to various intellectual property objects.
- In the case you would like to expand your business, our specialists from the Corporate Department will help you with company registration in the jurisdiction you are interested in.
- We will prepare the necessary contracts for you, or conduct an analysis of documents from your counterparty, so that you can be confident in the legality and safety of your actions.
- We will be happy to help with any possible issue related to legal and business planning of your activities!
Conclusion
Despite its apparent frivolity, blogging and content creation on the Internet is a full-fledged activity that gives rise to corresponding rights and obligations.
To guarantee your safety and the complete legality of your actions, Law&Trust lawyers are ready to provide all possible assistance at any stage of your project.
