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Protecting your IP with Freelance staff

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Protect Your IP

Do you have freelancers working in your business? Remember to ensure you have clear contracts with any freelance creative personnel that clearly states that your business owns the intellectual property (IP) created.

Under moral rights law the individual that scribbles or sketches a creative idea owns that idea up until 50 years after their death.

A full time employee working in a company is covered, but a freelance creative person owns their IP automatically by law, unless you clearly state otherwise in their contract.

Photo: kindly borrowed from Dartar on FlickrĀ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dartar/1091633474/)