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Someone Copied Your Framework? What You Can Actually Protect (and What You Can't)

A former student launches a program with your steps, your order, and your promise under a different name. Before you post a callout or call your lawyer, find out which kind of problem this actually is. Attorney Tamsen Horton explains why you can't own the idea behind a framework, and the three things you can protect: the name (trademark), the way you've written and presented it (copyright), and what the other person agreed to in writing (contract). A broken contract is the sharpest knife of the three, and it only works if clear purchase terms were agreed to before someone went behind the…

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