{"id":2681,"date":"2025-07-30T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/loomevargus-ja-plagiaat-kuidas-enda-loomingut-kaitsta-ja-teiste-teostest-turvaliselt-inspiratsiooni-ammutada\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:53:26","slug":"inspiration-vs-infringement-how-protect-your-creative-work-and-understand-fair-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/en\/inspiration-vs-infringement-how-protect-your-creative-work-and-understand-fair-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration vs. Infringement: how to protect your creative work and understand \u201cfair use\u201d policies in copyright law?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is very common in the graphic design landscape that we get our inspiration from someone else&#8217;s work or replicate the work of a popular designer subject to copyright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s a Superman logo in an ad clip, the Queen&#8217;s photo post on a newsletter, Pippi Longstocking on a show at a Christmas party or Arvo P\u00e4rt&#8217;s soundtrack in a video background &#8211; if they do not take copyrights into consideration, or pay royalties to the rights owner, this can easily lead to a litigious litigation. Therefore, it is important to specify in advance which copyrights (both moral and economic) are used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 26, we celebrate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wipo.int\/ip-outreach\/en\/ipday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Intellectual Property Day<\/a> and NJORD Law Firm is hosting a morning seminar, where Attorney at Law Liisi J\u00fcrgen, Lawyer Evelin Simer and Legal Assistant Gertrud Sein discuss the issues of theft and plagiarism and give answers to most common questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Product development and design &#8211; How to create a product design that does not violate anyone&#8217;s rights?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How to conclude a contract so that nobody later misuses your work and what are the main points of the contract that should be included?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Place:<\/strong><br>NJORD&nbsp;Law Office<br>Veerenni 24, D entrance, Tallinn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong><br>Thursday,&nbsp;April 26, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8.45\u20139.00&nbsp;arrival<br>9.00\u201310.30 seminar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Participation:<\/strong><br>The seminar is free, and we offer morning coffee and snacks at the seminar.<br>Registration by <strong>April 20, 2018<\/strong> at the latest at <a href=\"mailto:seminar@njordlaw.ee?subject=Seminar%20%22%E2%80%9ERahatrahv%2032%20000%20EUR.%E2%80%9C%20%20Tervitades%2C%20%20Andmekaitse%20Inspektsioon%20%22%20osalemine\">seminar@njordlaw.ee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View the event also in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/462604204156137\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is very common in the graphic design landscape that we get our inspiration from someone else&#8217;s work or replicate the work of a popular designer subject to copyright. Whether it&#8217;s a Superman logo in an ad clip, the Queen&#8217;s photo post on a newsletter, Pippi Longstocking on a show at a Christmas party or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3269,"href":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/3269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njordlaw.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}