You may be wondering about how to get started and what the best way to share with your audience is. We’ve got your back! We’ve put together a handy guide to help you through the onboarding process, plus 5 tips for you to share, engage and increase your affiliation customers. 

…Onboarding

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Tip 1: Your story matters 

The best way to share is (hands down) through your personal experience! Your personal story is powerful, and users connect to your journey as a source of inspiration. Use these questions to reflect and guide you through this process.

• Where did copyright ownership help you?
• What problem did you solve?
• How did it impact your work & creation process?
• Why do you think your audience should use a service like copyrights world? 
• If you could turn back time, what things would you change, knowing what you know now? 

Tip 2: Let’s Get Loud

We’ve talked about the ‘why’ and the importance of making it personal to connect and inspire your audience. Wondering about the ‘where’ and ‘how’ to share?   

The answer is wherever you connect with your audience. This could be:

• Writing a blog post on your blog and website
• Posting on social media 
• Creating a story on instagram
• Creating a video for youtube 
• Sharing via email to your friends and co-workers
• Sharing on groups, communities and forums with people who will benefit from copyrighting their work as you did. 
• Singing a sea shanty on TikTok

Whatever your experience, is what people want to hear about!

Tip 3: Turn Your Should Haves In To Must Haves 

Remind your audience of the value of copyright protection & infringement monitoring. What can they gain from it? Aaand what do they stand to lose if they aren’t properly protected? Think of copyright protection as copyright insurance for your content, with worldwide coverage!  

It’s the foundation to build their empire! 

• If you are a writer, copyright ownership could have allowed you to self publish your book. 
• If you are a photographer, infringement monitoring could have helped you share your work more freely and keep track of who is using your photos without permission. 
• If you are an influencer or online educator, SocialProtect could have helped you prove proof of ownership in a court of law against a big brand that plagiarized your original content.  
• If you are a blogger, BlogPassport could have protected your blog posts and helped you create more revenue from it. 

Tip 4: Remember your etiquette on social media 

It’s not polite to steal. The same way you wouldn’t walk into someone’s home if they accidently left their door open (we hope), is the same way you wouldn’t share/copy/use someone’s original digital property.

If you or your audience sell digital products (like e-books, online courses), you’re probably already using social media to promote them. Remind your audience about SocialProtect – the perfect tool to help you know who is using your content without your permission. Next step, contact them to stop or make a deal to license it and make more money!

Sharing (with protection) is caring! 

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Here’s to inspiring and empowering creators and creating more revenue for you! 

You had to build your own servers, buy a special fast and super expensive internet connection, maintain and scale the infrastructure and data centres yourself. And all of that, before even thinking about creating a product or even attracting customers in some way.

But during those years all of these hugely expensive and time consuming tasks have been transformed into services that can just be turned on and off and plugged into your own world.

Services like AWS, Salesforce and Hubspot have made the building of a company so much easier that it used to be. And that’s awesome.

Today, if you truly know what you are doing you can assemble a stack of services to support your vision and then concentrate on what matters. Your product, your customers and your strategy.

As I follow the start-up world and the creative world very closely I see some similarities arising.

Creators a few years ago, needed to invest in websites and marketing in order to host their creations and attract eyeballs. Today platforms like Youtube, Instagram and Facebook have made that so much easier for them.

But again, creators did not have the tools to monetise their work. Then Gumroad, Patreon and Fullscreen popped out and tried to solve this problem. And they did, in a big way. Creators can now support their craft by creating and charging for it.

Today there are Youtubers making hundreds of thousands of $ per month and influencers and podcasters making millions per year. A few years ago, this was just fiction.

As a result the number of creators that have become full-time has exploded in the last 2-3 years. It’s a revolution in progress. And the pandemic only accelerated that process.

And that’s something the big distribution companies have now come to realise. They want to get in the game by providing paying solutions and better content hosting services for the creators.

Youtube launched Channel memberships, Twitter Super follows and Facebook Fan subscriptions.  TikTok, Snap, Twitch, Substack, Onlyfans and Clubhouse are doing the same as we speak.

They want to make it easy and more accessible for creators to share content and get paid. And of course they want a piece of that pie.

But we are only scratching the surface here.

There are thousands and thousands of new companies that are created for the creators. Services that can accommodate every creator need and help them become full-time on their craft. This could be the “job” of the future.

NFTs are changing the game once again bringing the value of the “authentic”, “original” and “one of a kind” creation to the online world. A single image was sold for 69M and Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet for 2.9M just some weeks ago.

Some info on NFTs: NFTs’ actual ownership is blockchain-managed. They are unique, rare and indivisible digital assets. Non-fungible tokens contain permanent metadata – like a certificate of authenticity for a rare painting. Also, developers have the power to limit the number of rare NFTs, making them scarce and desirable. Finally, NFTs cannot be split into smaller denominations – you can only trade them as a whole.

This is crazy (but is it?) and it’s only going to get more and more interesting.

The new Creator Economy is booming. Only in the USA creators earned a baseline of $6.8 billion just on the nine top platforms in 2017. 

We could be living Renaissance 2.0. This is really big and it’s only going to get bigger as time goes by.

The internet was created by people for the people and now the same people can live out of the internet not by building a business online, but by tunnelling their creativity into it. Like fuel.

The possibilities are endless here. NFTs, VR, AR, Blockchain and many more technologies embrace the dreams of creators and are used to implement service for the creators era.

The era where people’s job will be just to express themselves and share those expressions with the rest of us. 

A beautiful era.

In today’s digital world, with the advent of the internet, and even worse, with the existence of all the social media platforms, the battle seems to be lost. Social media platforms offer access to a huge amount of information and allow the connection among millions of internet users who share their creations in a way that was never before possible. 

But what about intellectual property rights? 

Many people believe that the best way  to protect your intellectual property in social media, is not to put it there at all. Nevertheless, we all use social media, and every day more and more people share with the rest of the world everything they create, such as photos, videos and music, without taking time or effort to read each platform’s terms of use. 

A quick look in those terms shows that no platform owns what has been posted on their site. The copyright still belongs to the owner. But when we come to the license of use, things change. 

Let’s take a look at some of the most popular social media platforms and their copyright terms of use. 

Facebook:

The Facebook terms of use state that once you share, post or upload your creation, of which you own the intellectual property rights, you retain those rights. You grant though the host the ability to use, modify, copy, distribute to others, or even create derivative works of it, without giving you any royalties or credits. When you delete your content from the platform, this license stops existing.  

Twitter:

Twitter’s terms of use are quite similar to those of Facebook. You still hold the copyright of your creation, but by posting it on the platform, you give Twitter the license to use, copy, modify, and make it available to the rest of the world and with retweet let others do the same. This content can be used in any other media or distribution channels now known or later developed, without any compensation paid to you.

Tiktok: 

In Tiktok’s terms of use, things are even “stricter”. You still own the copyright of what you create, but here you submit the “unconditional irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual worldwide” license to use, download, modify, share, publish and distribute, not only to Tiktok but to other users and third parties as well. This is different from other social media platforms which state that users either upload their own original content or content that they have permission to use.

Moreover you grant the free license to use your username, image, voice to identify you as the source of any of your User Content

Pinterest: 

In Pinterest you can upload and share photos from your website or business and thus promote your work. 

In Pinterest’s terms of use is stated that the copyright of those photos remains to you, but as an exchange you grant Pinterest the license to use, store, save, reproduce and distribute your content for free, without paying something back to you.

If you think that someone infringes upon your intellectual rights in any way, Pinterst gives you the opportunity to submit a DMCA notice by filling out a copyright complaint form. 

It is more than clear that by posting on social media, you still keep the copyright of your creation. Nothing changes with it. 

The key word is the word “licence” which you give up for a variety of purposes depending on the platform you use. In some platforms you even grant the host the ability to keep a copy of your post and use it even if you delete it. 

So, before posting anything on any platform, spend some time reading its terms of use, and then decide whether to use it or not.