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Intellectual Property: Why Your Marketing Agency Should Take a Closer Look

Although a significant part of my marketing law practice involves helping marketing agencies protect their interests in client contracts or in freelance relationships, or counseling them how to protect their clients, most agencies don’t realize the full financial and business potential of leveraging their own intellectual property in these transactions. I’ll say it simply: some of […]

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Five Top Legal Hot Buttons Marketing Agency Leaders Need to Know…and How to Handle Them

  Marketing agency leaders have lots of legal questions! Sometimes on the creative aspects of their work (like intellectual property and licensing issues), other times about rules and regulations they need to know (like for content marketing and social media compliance), and many times about their business relationships (clients, employees and independent contractors). Here I

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3 Tips for Managing Portfolio Rights in Marketing Agency Creative Work

It was the third or fourth call I received, from different Agency clients in the space of a few weeks, with questions about how to handle display rights for creative work. “Our freelance designer is displaying our Client’s work on her personal website! We didn’t give her permission to do it, and neither did our

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A Marketing Agency Business Expert’s View on the Value of IP – Tim Williams, Ignition Consulting Group

I spend a lot of time reading, thinking and writing about how marketing agencies can capitalize on their intellectual property. I suppose it’s natural for an IP lawyer to get “preachy” about the importance of protecting intellectual capital, for clients in any industry. But I’ve always felt it was even more critical for creative businesses.

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The Marketing Agency Roadmap for Turning IP into Money – Converting Assets Into Revenue

This is Part 3 of a series on turning Marketing Agency IP assets into Money. In previous posts here and here, I discussed discovery of the Agency’s proprietary intellectual capital so that the Agency has a sense of its assets and how to evaluate their potential for additional Agency revenue. In Part 2 of this

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The Marketing Agency Roadmap for Turning IP into Money – Part 2: Cover Your Assets

In previous posts here and here, I reviewed methods for discovery and auditing your marketing agency’s intellectual property, with a view toward capitalizing on those assets to enhance the Agency’s value or create additional revenue streams. In Part 1 of this series, I also posed some questions the Agency can ask to help prioritize its

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The Marketing Agency Roadmap for Turning IP into Money – Part 1: Review Your Assets

In my last post, I discussed the places where ad and marketing agencies might find their intellectual capital, some of which might be converted into additional revenue streams, higher professional fees, or enhanced value to a potential purchaser of the Agency. Once the Agency has decided to evaluate its intellectual capital, it needs an easy

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Agency IP? What Agency IP? Five Places to Find Intellectual Property in Your Marketing Agency

Marketing and ad agency leaders are frequently surprised when I tell them that they are probably sitting on a large pile of intellectual property, a lot of it underutilized and most of it unprotected. Agencies are typically so focused on the ideation and creativity they employ for their clients that they rarely take a breather

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Content Marketing Done Right(s) – Start Here: Legal Compliance Issues Content Marketers Need to Understand

Content marketing is a rich and diverse medium used by marketers for many purposes – brand development, customer education, thought leadership, lead nurturing, and community building among them. The legal issues created by content marketing are just as diverse and plentiful as the actual strategies. More importantly, the stakes of making a legal error as

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