#2722 - Failure Friday: A Graphic Designer's Brush with Copyright Catastrophe
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this week's Failure Friday, we hear from a graphic designer who found herself in hot water after using copyrighted images in a client's project. This brush with legal trouble taught her a valuable lesson about the importance of due diligence.
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| 0:00.0 | A graphic designer's brush with copyright catastrophe. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey friends, Sidessel School here, Chris Gillipo, your host. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to a new episode. |
| 0:18.0 | This is episode 2,72. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to a new segment known as Failure Friday, or this week's segment, I should say. |
| 0:26.4 | It's all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of course failure. |
| 0:30.4 | What can we learn? |
| 0:31.6 | How can we learn? In fact, I believe we can learn as much from |
| 0:33.9 | failure as we can from success if not more. So in this segment you get to hear |
| 0:37.7 | directly from a side-ussler who has struggled in some way or otherwise |
| 0:41.8 | encountered a difficulty. |
| 0:43.4 | They're going to tell you this short story of what went wrong |
| 0:46.8 | and what they learned along the way. |
| 0:49.2 | So today's short story, without further ado, |
| 0:52.2 | we're going to hear from a graphic designer who |
| 0:54.6 | found herself in hot water after using copyrighted images in a client's project. |
| 1:00.3 | Now this was a pretty simple and reasonable error in the sense that like I can just totally |
| 1:05.9 | understand how it happened but then of course you know it does create difficulty so what does she do? |
| 1:12.1 | This brush with legal trouble taught her a valuable lesson about the importance of due diligence. |
| 1:17.0 | And no judgment with these stories, by the way. In fact, it's the opposite. I appreciate very much people who share honestly and transparently about something that they did wrong perhaps or a mistake because we have all made mistakes. |
| 1:30.0 | So let's hear the story from her. Her name is Julia. |
| 1:33.2 | She'll talk about this issue as well as what she learned from it. |
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