R - read through ezines, and your competitions websites. Gather information that may be of interest.

E- examine ads. See if their products and services are offering anything original, eye-catching and different, that may enhance your business.

A - accumulate all information from any possibilities that caught your eye and that may fit into your business.

D- Design your own creative ideas from information you gathered.

Whatever you do, do not copy anyone's ideas. Use them as a foundation to create your own unique product or service. You can take another businesses ideas, gather any other information you can find about it, and twist it around, add some of your own blends to it, and Whoa-La...your ON THE ROAD AGAIN!

This may not be as easy as it seems, but ideas are out there. We just have to find them. So you can make a decision; SIT AROUND SINGING THE ROAD BLOCK BLUES! or GET UP AND START SINGING..ON THE ROAD AGAIN!

-What works are NOT protected: Several categories of material are generally not eligible for federal copyright protection. These include among others: -Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression -Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering, or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents -Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries, or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation, or illustration -Works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship (for example: standard calendars, height and weight charts, tape measures and rulers, and lists or tables taken from public documents or other common sources)

And for all copycats out there, here is exactly how much of someone elses work you can take without getting permission:

--Under fair use doctrine of U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports. There are no legal rules permitting use of a specific number of words, a certain number of musical notes, or percentages of a work. Whether a particular use qualifies as fair use depends on all circumstances.

Copycats are despicable people, who do not have a creative bone in their body. They actually think they are running a business by copying other businesses works and putting it on their site. Put pity on copycats… If they are not smart enough to create their own work, then you know they are not smart enough to succeed at anything. Now, you know basic laws of copyright. For more detailed information, please visit: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/

You will be able to get all information you need pertaining to copyright laws and also all contact information you may need for registering your own copyright for your business.