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Have you ever read something so good that you just wanted to Blog about it? Or maybe you’ve attended an awesome teleseminar and wanted to Blog about that. Just remember, that if you do, you must adhere to copyright and intellectual property laws or else you could face the threat of a potential lawsuit.
 
No one wants to be on the receiving end of an email telling you that what you’ve written on your Blog is proprietary information and you can’t have it. Well, maybe you can have it; as long as you give proper credit. That takes the form of citing your sources. And, in the case of blogging about something you heard in a teleclass somewhere, you need to be especially careful about making that information publicly available.

Authors own their *intellectual property* and they can do what they want with it. Everyone else cannot. If there is an article written by someone else, that you find inspiring enough to want to share with your own audience, it is imperative that you quote the original author. If you copy the whole article you must make mention of that in your post and include a link to the original article.

If you take bits and pieces of that article and weave them into your own, you must place quotations around those parts that are not your own words. And then you must make mention of this in your post and include a link back to the original article.Same goes for commenting on information you may have gleaned from a teleclass or webinar you attended. You may think the information is great and wish to make a Blog post about it. In this case it is best that you seek permission from the original speaker. They may have other plans for their information. They may be planning on writing a book or an article using the same information. That is their right as owners of the material.

Always ask for permission first or else you may regret it later.If you do not give proper citation or seek permission first, you could be accused of plagiarism and find yourself on the receiving end of a document threatening to sue you over intellectual property theft or copyright infringement.

To learn more about proper citation methods and copyright information please go to http://www.carrollcc.edu/library/research/citing/faq.asp