You know how important it is to protect your intellectual property. But did you know it’s equally important to make sure you have the appropriate contractual paper trail to prove you in fact own all of the technologies you are building through third party contractors. Do you own the copyright to your own technology? That’s not as unusual a question as you’d think – many startup founders don’t. Creations such as graphics, web design templates, and software are all governed by copyright law, according to which the copyright owner is the creator/author of a given work. The company commissioning the work, meanwhile, has no…
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