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What It's About
Let's talk about sex-positive apparel! A listener seeks advice on copyrighting and protecting her ideas.
Notes from Chris
Episode 1441
“Should I copyright my sex-positive apparel ideas?” Well ... they aren’t mine, actually. I don’t have any sex-positive or apparel ideas! But one of our listeners in Los Angeles does. She’s been working on a plan to sell novelty clothing featuring intelligent innuendos. Once you start diving into an idea like this, you have three sets of decisions to make. You’ve got the creative process, the strategy, and logistics. Naturally, some decisions overlap these categories. In particular, our listener Alyssa is wondering about copyright and otherwise protecting the intellectual property of her designs."Hi, this is Alyssa Carol from Los Angeles, California, and I've been listening to the show nonstop for about three weeks since my fiancee and I decided to turn a running joke into a side hustle. We're launching Ruffled Pages Apparel, which is novelty clothing and more from a group of sex-positive LGBTQ plus affirming feminist pun aficionados. Ruffled Pages Apparel is here to make a smile with our intelligent innuendos for all. Chris, my question is, should we copyright the images we're using on our clothing and accessories? We hired an artist to create the images which will accompany our humorous slogans on each clothing item. We're paying the artist a small upfront fee and then a percentage of each sale for the items they've worked on. As the hiring entity, does our company even own the copyrights or do the copyrights belong to the artist? Is it worth the fifty-five dollars processing fee since we're just starting out and we're not even sure if we'll have sales? Thanks for listening and thank you for all of your sage advice on this podcast. It's helped me to realize that I really can fit something fun and hopefully profitable into my spare time."Listen to today's episode to learn more...
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