Did you know you don’t own any of your Virtual Assistants intellectual property that they create for you? Steve gives you the method for transferring ownership to you when receiving your team members work. 

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• If you are a creative, whether that be graphical design, technical design, speech, music, art or prose of any kind, you own the copyright, by default, of any of your work.
• If you do not have, as an employer, an agreed employment contract in place as is often the case with VA’s, the rights of ownership of the work handed to you does not automatically revert to you.
• Have all of your new staff sign a short document called an Assignment of Intellectual Property Rights. You can get this document for free listed on the link under Valuable Resources.
• You can use a digital signing service if you are completing this over distance and need to avoid meeting the person or the inefficiency of snail mail. 

 

BEST MOMENTS 

‘This specific topic is so simple to fix and so important for you and your business.’

‘That means any work that they create for you, while working for you is theirs. They have the rights to it even though you pay them to create it.’

‘Once you’ve got that document you simply send that over to your new staff and say “hey, can you put your name and sign this.” Put the date they started working for you and you can backdate this as well, by the way.’

‘Even if your logo becomes a home brand and everyone knows it the person who designed that logo is the one that actually owns it and they could actually ask you to stop using it.’

 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Intellectual Property Assignment Document ; http://seedsummit.org/intellectual-property-assignment/

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SystemsAndOutsourcing/ 

Website: https://systemsandoutsourcing.com/welcome-1 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/drsteveday   

The RIGHT Assistants For Your Business by Dr Steve Day  http://bit.ly/sys-10

 

ABOUT THE HOST

Steve used to be a slave to his business but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change the way he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely and after totally nailing this concept he decided to spend his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.

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