Digital Brand Protection: Investigating Brand Piracy & Intellectual Property Abuse provides a framework for rightsholders to protect and commercialise assets in the digital economy. Digital brand protection is a mindset, not a narrow discipline; an approach which emboldens brands and creativity. When it comes to digital brand protection, this book invites you to consider the bigger picture encapsulating all elements of brand IP, brand building and digital culture. Brand piracy is charted across the major areas and platforms which concern brand owners, with over 40 Case Studies included to illuminate the discussion with practical insight, tips and best practices in implementing a successful brand protection strategy. The book bridges the gap between brand protection and brand strategy, enabling decision-makers to contextualise infringements and take appropriate steps which maximise the overall impact of digital brand protection activities. With the digitisation of society has come the rise of brands. Brands are one of the most powerful and long-lasting ways of creating value for a company. The internet enables small and medium businesses to access a wider market than ever before, directly connect with customers and build brands with purpose. Social networks, smartphones, cyber-libertinism, the growth of digital entrepreneurship, the explosion of E-Sports and the constantly connected lifestyle have led to an irreversible transformation in how consumers engage with a brand. The direct-to-consumer channel is rapidly evolving; individuals are becoming brands, including content creators, influencers and key opinion leaders; and even 'causes' have become branded. With this in mind, brand protection cannot be blind to digital culture. The investigation techniques in this book are woven with an appreciation of the online world, digital norms and hyper-connectivity of cyberspace. Combining technical proficiency with cultural understanding is vital in developing a modern brand protection strategy; not only to remove infringements, but proactively prevent future abuses.Intellectual property law can be controversial. Especially when applied online. An entrenched pro-piracy movement has grown with a conceptual belief that everything on the internet is, or should be, free of charge. Support for piracy grew in large part due to overly strong-arm tactics used by some industries in defending their own interests. Unfortunately, digital IP debates tend to pitch the rights of individuals against the rights of large industries. These industries are populated by a shrinking number of organisations which have grown to dominate the digital economy. Intellectual property, at its heart, protects imagination and creativity. A smart IP regime inspires inventiveness and rewards ingenuity. Intellectual property law is intended to protect individual creatives and SMEs just as much as large rightsholders. Scale is merely relative. Fairness is the issue at stake. This book has been written with action in mind, a reference guide prior to an investigation or to stimulate new ideas when all the current lines of enquiry seem to be exhausted. Investigators tend to go deep into the rabbit hole when conducting their research, opening hundreds of tabs in their browser of choice and following the untrodden path. This work is essential reading for content creators, digital entrepreneurs, influencers, inventors, practitioners and brand owners of all sizes. Online resource centre: https://www.ustels.com/digital-brand-protection/

The growth of the Internet has had a profound effect on the way business is carried out, and has provided an unprecedented opportunity for third-party individuals and organisations to attack brands with relative ease. These changes have resulted in the birth of a significant and rapidly-growing new industry: that of online brand protection, consisting of specialist service providers which can be employed by brand owners to monitor and prevent potential attacks on their brand. Brand Protection in the Online World explains the full scope of Internet infringement, and associated monitoring and enforcement options that are most relevant to brand owners and managers. Covering crucial topics such as brand abuse, counterfeiting, fraud, digital piracy and more, Brand Protection in the Online World provides a clear and in-depth exploration of the importance of, and ideas behind, the brand-protection industry.

An essential guide to navigating the shifting Internet landscape The Internet is about to profoundly change when it explodes from a 21 top level domain world to a 500 to a 1,000 .anything top level domain universe. How will you evolve your .com strategy? How will you keep your brands safe in the changing global Internet landscape? In an economic time where global brand protection is more important than ever and budgets are leaner, project leaders inside corporations will welcome the strategies revealed in Domain Names Rewired. Written for executives and branding professionals, this timely book equips you with the tools to address important issues your company will face when creating new brands or derivative brands, as well as protecting your existing brands and .com in a global changing Internet landscape. With this book, authors Jennifer C. Wolfe and Anne H. Chasser skillfully show branding executives and intellectual property lawyers how to increase the value and success of their initiatives within the next generation of the Internet. Features interviews with executives from the world's leading companies, including Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo!, Neustar, AUS Registry, ICANN, Remax, the International Trademark Association, Verizon, and many others Looks at relevant situations your corporation may deal with in creating new brands Provides expert guidance for protecting your existing .com and brand in an exponentially changing Internet world Offers ideas to consider disruptive innovation in expanding .com into .anything The rapidly changing new regime of the Internet is impacting the hundreds of millions of Internet users around the globe, not to mention every business that already has a .com. Maximize your opportunities in the changing digital world and stay ahead of the competitors with the visionary strategies found in Domain Names Rewired.

In the Digital Age of the twenty-first century, the question is not if you will be targeted, but when. Are you prepared? If not, where does one begin? For an enterprise to be fully prepared for the immanent attack, it must be actively monitoring networks, taking proactive steps to understand and contain attacks, enabling continued operation during an incident, and have a full recovery plan already in place. Cybersecurity expert Ray Rothrock has provided for businesses large and small a must-have resource that highlights: the tactics used by today’s hackers, vulnerabilities lurking in networks, and strategies not just for surviving attacks, but thriving while under assault. Businesses and individuals will understand better the threats they face, be able to identify and address weaknesses, and respond to exploits swiftly and effectively. From data theft to downed servers, from malware to human error, cyber events can be triggered anytime from anywhere around the globe. Digital Resilience provides the resilience-building strategies your business needs to prevail--no matter what strikes.

Digital Branding gives step-by-step, practical guidance on how to build a brand online. Through exploring topics like content marketing, social media, search optimisation and web analytics, Daniel Rowles develops a robust framework for brand planning, channel selection and measuring the effectiveness of your brand campaigns. Digital Branding contains real world case studies, a guide to the free and paid tools that can help measure digital branding in each of the different online channels, examples of social guidelines, process and policy and an original step by step digital branding process along with measurement techniques and guidelines.

This collection of essays covers a range of contemporary issues in the field of construction law that should be of use to practitioners, construction industry professionals and academics

This book offers a new method for aligning brand management and user experience goals. Brand management deals with conveying individual brand values at all marketing contact points, the goal being to reach the target group and boost customer retention. In this regard, it is important to consider the uniqueness of each brand and its identity so as to design pleasurable and high-quality user experiences. Combining insights from science and practice, the authors present a strategy for using interaction patterns, visual appearance, and animations to validate the actual brand values that are experienced by users while interacting with a digital product. Further, they introduce a 'UX identity scale' by assigning brand values to UX related psychological needs. The method applied is subsequently backed by theoretical concepts and illustrated with practical examples and case studies on real-world mobile applications.