Legal-ease For Entrepreneurs: Empowering Creatives About The Legal Aspects Of Running A Business

This week's guest - Allison Puryear - a clinical therapist in Asheville North Carolina was going about her business - which happens to be helping other therapist build their business - when she got sued for copyright infringement.  At first she thought it was a joke, then later discovered that a photo she downloaded and had been using for two years had been federally copyrighted and the photographer was coming after her. So I know what you're thinking - she probably just cut and pasted it from google and didn't give the photographer credit (and I would never do that!).  Nope!  Wrong.  She downloaded the photo from a stock photo website - a free one as best as she could recall.  So she basically got sued for something we all do every single day.   In Episode 13 - I talk about the benefits of registering your copyright.  But today, I flip the script and Allison and I discuss steps you can take to protect yourself so that something like this never happens to you.   Allison contacted a couple of lawyers to help h