How about a little AI issue-spotting exercise? If you wonder what lawyers do all day, this is it. 😊

“Issue spotting” means identifying legal issues within a factual scenario or a set of circumstances.

I got a super juicy question for this month’s LinkedIn Live:

"How to use AI to help create a curriculum with my own IP without permitting AI to use that IP when responding to prompts from others?"

So, of course, I had to ask ChatGPT. First, I got what I expected, but then I got something unexpected....

Proof that nothing beats in person connections! This conversation with Nate Hecker, CEO of Big Idea, was so good that I want to make sure you don’t miss it.

In case you missed it, I recently hosted a LinkedIn Live session (I host them every last Wednesday of the month😊) where I discussed the 360 degrees of trouble you can get in if you hire contractors without a written agreement. The unintentional collaborator is your nightmare come true.

The copyright owner of content has the exclusive rights to reproduce, adapt, publicly distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display the work, or authorize others to engage in these activities.

You have a service in high demand. You have neither the will nor the desire to work more or hire or manage additional employees. You are confident that the transformation you provide to your clients could be effectively delivered by other experts to their clients if they used the methodology and materials you have developed.

Thinking about turning your expertise into a licensing program, but concerned that it isn’t a fit for your highly customized, non-recurring professional services that you are known for and that your clients demand? If so, you are correct.

There are many rewards—and challenges—to licensing your expertise.

Thinking about how to protect your IP when collaborating with a colleague?

Let’s look at an example:

Two people collaborate to create an illustrated children’s book. One provides the text. The other provides the illustrations.

Does each collaborator own 50% of the book?