From the course: Consulting Foundations
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License your intellectual property
From the course: Consulting Foundations
License your intellectual property
- Sometimes you'll want to use someone else's intellectual property on a consulting engagement. Sometimes other people will want to use your intellectual property. Know your rights with respect to the IP of others. Whether it's frameworks, photos, videos, or processes, if someone else created it, they likely own the rights to it, and you can't use it without permission. If you want to use it, write them and ask for permission. You might have to pay a licensing fee if they do allow its use. If they say no, respect it. Using IP without permission is theft. I worked with one guy who was building an app to help people deal with bipolar disorder. He showed me the app, and it was amazing the amount of content he had in there. He had treatment plans and techniques that people could use to better manage their mental disorder. When I asked him where he got all of his content, if he had people on his team that were writing it or if there were clinical studies involved, he said, "No, there's…
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