How to avoid copyright lawsuits over freelancer logos and website designs
Starting a small business with design help from external freelancers can lead to fears of future copyright lawsuits, ownership disputes, or even platform threats of permanent website disabling over untrademarked logos. Because hiring a lawyer is often unaffordable, business owners feel stuck and fear losing all the work and money they put into their site.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Looking for reliable designers on Upwork or 99designs
- 2Checking work history, portfolios, reviews, and credentials
- 3Asking designers many questions before selection
- 4Using specific designers who perform infringement checks before starting
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Im being required by Wix my website builder to trademark my logo designs on my website or facing permanent disabling.”source ↗
“I’ve only registered my llc last year and mostly use my website for my portfolio so I’m not generating any revenue from it yet.”source ↗
“I don’t want to loose all I’ve put into the website but am at a standstill on how to proceed as I can’t afford a lawyer for this at the moment.”source ↗
“I am starting a small business and I want to get a logo and website help that will be mine? I don’t want to create my shop and 3 years from now have copyright issues and be sued?”source ↗
Where this came up
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