Work bloggers is associated with certain legal risks - if the law is violated, he may be brought to administrative or criminal liability
One of the significant risks is
copyright infringement
. Despite the fact that copyrighted works can be used for personal purposes, but at the same time quoting and indicating the author, it is still illegal to use them for commercial purposes without the consent of the author. Otherwise, this will lead to conflict and, as a consequence, long legal proceedings.
It must be remembered that
citation must meet certain conditions
– the author’s text must be used for scientific, educational or cultural purposes, indicating the source, and its volume should not exceed 13%.
When using copyrighted content for a commercial purpose, it is necessary to conclude an agreement with him, which stipulates the transfer of the author’s rights to the results of his intellectual activity.
Liability for violation of an exclusive right associated with the unlawful use of copyright content is regulated by Article 1301 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, and for illegal use of a trademark - by Article 1515 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
On the other hand, and
blogger has the right to protect his content
. One of the methods of protection is depositing the material. In this case, it is placed for storage in a secure cell with the authorship, date and time of downloading recorded, and the author receives a certificate confirming copyright, which can be used in court.
No less important techniques for confirming authorship are the use of a symbol
, various technical means of protection and
adding watermarks
, which are used, as a rule, on visual content indicating the name and address of the blog. You can add disclaimers warning of criminal liability for copyright infringement.
According to Russian legislation, bloggers can use
alias
in the process of its work, having previously registered it in the International Register of ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier), and subsequently as a trademark. Also
you can register the first and last name of the author, the name of the company or brand, slogan
, used for marketing promotion (for example, bloggers Katya Clap, Maryana Ro, and many others have registered a trademark - Maryana Ro for classes ICGS 3, 16, 25, 29, 30, 32, 45, 41, 43, No. 807655; Kate Claap for class MCGS 38, No. 650330.
It is important to remember to comply with certain conditions in order to protect the content of blogs on social networks. Thus, for each new resource it is necessary to create a new password, and when restoring or confirming it, it is safest to use a phone number rather than an email address, which should not be indicated when registering on social networks.
In addition, for security reasons, it is necessary not to go to dubious sites and enable two-factor authentication.
Thus, the content of the blog also refers to objects of copyright protected by law in accordance with Art. 1255 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. That is, the blogger has exclusive rights and personal non-property rights that are inalienable and always assigned to him: the right to name, authorship, integrity and the right to publication, which arises at the time of content creation. In the event of legal disputes, the blogger is obliged to provide legal documents confirming his copyright in the created work.
