According to Entrepenuer.com social media ads are slated to hit $50 billion by 2019. As a small business owner, I understand the value of social media ads to the marketing of my firm. But in creating ads, business owners need to ask whether you are fully protecting and extracting the maximum value in the content you are creating.  

This year has been a banner year for intellectual property legislation and judicial decisions.  For example, patent law has seen big changes to long established legal precedent.  One of the big changes on the legislative front for trade secrets has been the passage and enactment of the 2016 Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA).

Let's not get ahead of ourselves and forget the importance proper IP compliance before diving headlong into a crowdfunding campaign. A few dos and don't's...