PROTECT YOUR VOICE: IP STRATEGIES & CONTRACT TIPS FOR SPEAKERS

You love what you do! Professional speaking is a high calling. But it is also a business. As a business owner, your most valuable asset aside from people is your intellectual property – those products and services you birthed to improve the world (and your bottom line, of course). This session will arm you with actions to better position, protect and manage your content and brand.

Valuable Takeaways:

• Avoid copyright missteps

• Ensure ownership from the outset (employees vs. contractors)

• Master the trademark DOs and DONʼTs

• Understand the role AI plays (and what it doesn’t)

• Control your content

• Be proactive with contract clauses

• Disclaim inevitable blame

• Police your I.P.

 About Russ Riddle, JD

What do Barney® the purple dinosaur, Thomas the Tank Engine® and YOU have in common? All have been served (or are about to be) by Russ Riddle!

Having practiced marriage for 42 years, law for 34, fatherhood for 33, and braved adventures as a juvenile probation officer and professional speaker, Russ is convinced that we must never stop learning and laughing. His love of levity stems in part from an intellectual property law practice that has served such clients as Barney®, Bob the Builder®, WISHBONE®, Thomas the Tank Engine®, the voices of Jimmy Neutron® and Larry the Cucumber®, as well as many NSA “characters” throughout the country. Russ is a past president of NSA North Texas, served four and a half years on the National Speakers Association’s Board of Directors and is a past chair of both the NSA Chapter Leadership Committee and SPEAKER Magazine. He’s the author of two books: Lawyer Up – The Smart Way and Persuasive vs. Abrasive – The judges have ruled, as well as the intellectual property manual Corral Your Cash Cow. He is appropriately known as the “Anomaly at Law®,” for he’s down to earth, clearly communicates and lavishes others with levity.

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