Copyright & Intellectual Property Rights Primer for Creative Pros (Video & Workbook)

If you are working in media as a producer, writer, or screenwriter you are in the business of creating, buying, and selling intellectual property.  In order to protect yourself, your work, and your family you need to understand the intellectual property property rights, and particularly copyright fundamentals.  This resource covers:

You will Learn . . .

• Copyright: Where, Why, When, and How to Register Your Copyright on Text, Audio, Video, and Film Projects and why it's arguably the strongest form of Intellectual Property Protection we have
  

• Work for Hire Agreements: Their Requirements & Significant Limitations

• Trademark: Protecting Titles Through Trademark
  
• Patents: What They Protect and What They Don't
  
• Licensing and Option Agreements: The Alternative to Selling Your Work
  
• Actors Rights: Recording Their Performances & Getting Releases
• Rights Releases: And Why Getting Them Right is Critical
• Rights Dead & Famous People Have
  
• Rights Private Citizens Have When it Comes to Being Recorded

• How to Avoid selling content you don't really own and getting sued for it

• Ensuring you aren't tying yourself, accidentally to the spouses, children, and business partners of those you collaborate with or license content. 

Immediately after order you will receive . . . 

• Video: Intellectual Property Fundamentals (1 hr +)
  
• Printable Primer: Intellectual Property Fundamentals 

Questions? 

Please reach out to nancy@nancyfultonmeetups.com. I look forward to hearing from you. 

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