Stephanie Morrow
Stephanie Morrow has been a contributor to LegalZoom since 2005 and has written about nearly all aspects of law, from taxes and business formation to intellectual property and estate planning. In addition to her work at LegalZoom, Stephanie is a college professor for four different universities and teaches various communications and humanities courses, including communications law, advertising and public relations practices, propaganda and policy, political speechwriting, and journalism.
Stephanie earned her bachelor's degree in communications from West Chester University of Pennsylvania and her master's in journalism from Temple University, with one of the focuses of her master's thesis being copyright and trademark law within the communications realm. Stephanie is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in media and communications from Temple University; her dissertation thesis uses narrative theory and semiotics to investigate how the 1969 York, Pennsylvania race riots, which resulted in two murders, were covered by the media.
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Driving Web Traffic to Your Unknown Website
The old saying "build it and they will come" doesn't always work in the vast world of the Internet. After you build your Web site, you must take certain steps to make sure your site is visited. So, what can you do. Read more to find out about marketing your internet website.
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Patent Squatters: Is It Possible to Patent an Invention that Everyone's Been Using for Years?
Can you patent a new product that stems from an old favorite?
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Christmas Carols & IP Rights
This holiday season, many of us download and play Christmas carols to our heart's content without any thought to copyright ownership. By downloading and playing these songs, are we infringing on the author's copyright protection? Check out this primer on intellectual property rights, including what's protected, how long it's protected for.
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The Copyright Commons: Works in the Public Domain
Many of us have looked at a piece of art, watched a movie, or listened to a popular song and thought of using it to create something new. Well…can you?
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Developing an IP Strategy
Protecting your invention, logo or creative work with a patent, trademark or copyright is important. But equally important is creating an IP strategy.
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Maximizing Your Patent Application
Creating an invention might seem like the final step in becoming anovernight success, but successfully filing for a patent can be a challenge. By maximizing the effectiveness of your filing, you can ensure not only the protection of your invention, but a substantial head start in the marketplace as well.
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Nontraditional Partnerships that Have Started Successful Businesses
There seem to be as many kinds of business success stories as there are businesses. But is success attainable when a business partnership is founded within a more personal relationship, such as marriage? Here's a look at how it can be accomplished.
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Using Pinterest as a Marketing Tool
Social media has become a lucrative medium for marketing goods and services, whether it's giving away coupons to potential customers who “like” a Facebook page, enticing users to “follow” your business on Twitter, or posting commercials and how-to videos on YouTube. However, a social media network that many business owners have not yet tapped is Pinterest. This site has millions of potential customers who may be interested in following your company's new interests and branding techniques.
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Five Easy Steps to Maintaining Your Corporate Status
You have gone through the daunting task of starting a corporation. But you may be asking yourself "now what?" Although the steps to creating a corporation can be fairly straightforward, you've only begun; now you must run your corporation properly.
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Running Your Corporation: 5 Easy First Steps to Run Your Inc.
You've gone through the daunting task of starting a corporation. Your business name is chosen and registered, you've created your articles of incorporation and bylaws, and selected your directors, Now what?
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