This week, I’m talking about something potentially even more valuable that EVERY business has: your intellectual property.
ALL businesses have intellectual property, and for
One of the cool things about copyright is that some copyright rights exist the instant you create the material. Who the author is and who
Did your business leave money on the table this year? Let’s look at whether you maximized the value of your intellectual property or let its
Let’s look at the horror story of overreaching licenses and unintended assignments. The true horror happens when a contract is poorly drafted or poorly understood.
When a creator, influencer, or filmmaker produces a piece of content for a brand, such as a video, a custom song, a photo, or an
What if the contract for your next big brand or marketing deal was actually a monster, and it just swallowed the rights to your best
You don’t need to fear this terror, because you can and should plan to avoid it. If you have high-value patents or trademarks, here are
So why is the standard will, drafted by a general attorney, insufficient to properly transfer patent and trademark ownership?
It comes down to three
Let’s look at the specific risks of poor intellectual property succession planning. These are the ghosts of your assets that haunt your legacy if you
Most people think of their IP like a regular asset that upon their death will either transfer automatically or be handled easily by the executor
The thesis today is simple, yet alarming: A standard will and skimpy business operation documents can be a death sentence for your most valuable intellectual
This copyright jump scare is the termination provision in the 1976 Copyright Act that allows creators who transferred their copyright rights to someone else to
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