Moonlighting in Sunlight
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Clear, specific takeaways: copyrights exist on creation but in the US registration is required to sue and lasts life of the author plus 70 years; patents grant a disclosed monopoly for 20 years and must be new and nonobvious; trade secrets (example: Coca Cola recipe) rely on secrecy and NDAs. Employer defaults: company typically owns employee-created copyrights while inventors initially own inventions. Practical tactics: keep a list of prior inventions, get permissions in writing and use the email confirmation hack.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:13Intellectual property basics
- 10:17Work for hire agreements
- 21:48Negotiating side projects
- 41:21Ambiguous contract clauses
- 56:18Contractor vs employee
- 1:00:00Q&A
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