Copyright as a legal concept is an easy and straightforward way to protect your work. It seems clear-cut: if you don’t have a written permission from the artist, don’t use the asset. Simple. No room for copyright infringement.

Content is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, this post is considered a copyrighted material and can only be used by you with our explicit permission. There’s a lot of misinformation floating around the internet on how you can use intellectual property and when that use turns into stealing.

There are approximately 2.6 billion cases of copyright infringement happening on the internet every year. That is a staggering number, a scale that can be hard to grasp. USA has been the long-standing “winner” of the copyright infringement cases. It contributes almost 23% percent of worldwide IP theft.

We all operate under the premise that most small copyright infringements are not malevolent. After all, if an artist found their work using Copyseeker and came to you with an infringement claim, they’re within their right to do so.