The digital age allows room for illegal copying and using pictures, videos or music created by others. Copyright plays an important role not only on the internet but also “offline” at events, in galleries, hotels, copyshops, libraries and many other locations. It is therefore necessary to identify the commercial use of copyright protected works, enforce appropriate fees and to discover and track any misuse of these works.
Copyright Observation is important for:
Public-Rights-Organizations (P.R.O.), artists, writers, photographers, journalists and other creators of of public rights protected works, lawyers and law firms as well as public and private associations and organizations
Copyright Observation provides added value:
We support you extensively in terms of determining misuse, unauthorized use or missing and incorrect remuneration by the usage of copyright protected works. Your goal is to obtain revenue from the usage of public rights protected works? We have the appropriate mass data and services you require.
We support you by:
- Determining misuse / unauthorized use of copyright protected works
- Checking on full and correct authorization of use
- Checking on full and correct payment
- Collecting required data from different digital / nondigital sources (online/offline)
- Capturing data in customer system
- Producing and providing evidence
Sources that we use to obtain and evaluate mass data for you:
Public sources: Social networks (e.g. Facebook events, Facebook timeline), websites, epaper (daily, weekly, monthly publications), Twitter, online catalogs, online directories, online portals, discussion forums, event calendars, Google Places, Open Street Map, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, company and industry registers, personal registries, news portals, social media profiles, blogs, etc.
Your internal sources: Databases, specialised applications, content management systems, customer relationship management, production control systems, intranet, extranet, wiki, discussion forums, blogs, archives, filesystems, cloud storage