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Manage Your Intellectual Property

Johanna Rothman

The company hires you, pays you a wage, and in return, your intellectual property belongs to them. Every time you create something, you create intellectual property. That property has value over your lifetime plus 70 years according to general copyright law. Often, they had no idea they were doing something wrong.

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Digitizing Your Genius: Showcase Your Intellectual Property

Chad Barr

It’s incredibly important to “digitize” your intellectual property, manifesting your ideas in podcasts, articles, blogs, videos, e-books, newsletters, and other online media. What if, instead, they had shut off their ideas from those around them, and never showcased their amazing intellectual property?

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Tips to Protect and Profit from Your Intellectual Property

Emerson Consulting Group

Today licensing of intellectual property is a multi-billion dollar industry. In order to capitalize on such growth, entrepreneurs are seeking ways to protect and maximize the value of their ideas, inventions, artistic creations and other forms of intellectual property. Author’s Rights.

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The Use of the Word Transparency in the World of Social Media

Melissa Agnes

when a crisis happened it was common practice for an organization to withhold information, particularly if the information was incomplete or involved an organization’s Intellectual Property (e.g. Almost everyone has some sort of digital device – a smart phone, a social media page such as Facebook or Twitter, etc.

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Pro Sports Has a Piracy Problem

Harvard Business

Piracy poses a growing challenge to all sorts of digital media and entertainment companies, but it’s particularly acute for companies that own the rights to sports broadcasts, because efforts to shut down pirated broadcasts often take longer than the broadcasts actually last.

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Is Theft of Your Intellectual Property Just a Part of Thought Leadership?

Chad Barr

Guest Post: Is Theft of Your Intellectual Property Just a Part of Thought Leadership? The inclusion of my eclectic gift ideas made it absolutely clear that the author did not recreate my intellectual property by chance. I could lock my intellectual property away and dole it out with great caution.

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Use Work Samples to Seal the Deal

Successful Independent Consulting

Avoid leaving them with the client because it’s your intellectual property. Add these sample packets to your LinkedIn profile as rich media, or upload the samples to SlideShare and add them to your profile that way. Showing work from more than one client also increases your credibility. Always have them ready.