intellectual property

Making a name in China – a practical guide to marketing and expanding your design business to China

Are you considering offering your services or launching a new product in China? This event will give you practical advice on steps you should take to make a name for your business in China.

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Date: 12 October 2009
Location: Chinese Arts Centre, UK

From Ideas to Assets: identifying and understanding intellectual property rights

Whether you are involved in advertising or architecture, art and crafts or fashion, film and television or performing arts, music or software, it is crucial that you understand what intellectual property (IP) is and how it affects you and your business.

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Date: 25 September 2009
Location: Beaumont Hotel, Beaumont St. Hexham , NE46 3LT, UK

A guide to law and business practice for designers

This seminar will give you an overview of IP rights relevant to your design business.

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Date: 23 September 2009
Location: Central Saint Martins, Innovation Centre, Conference Room, UK

How Not to Get Ripped Off

This seminar will offer a basic guide to the law, covering the steps any creative professional should take in order to stop somebody else stealing or otherwise using your work without your permission (including copyright, patenting, trade marks, licensing and design rights.)

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Date: 19 August 2009
Location: London College of Communication, UK

Bootlaw June Special - IP and the web

We are delighted to announce that for the June edition of Bootlaw, we have guest speakers, Ian Silcock and Louise O'Callaghan, who are barristers from Hardwicke Buildings chambers specialising in intellectual property issues.

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Date: 24 June 2009
Location: Winston & Strawn, UK

AOP IP and Copyright Forum: Who owns the content?

AOP’s forum on copyright and intellectual property on 20 November brings together legal experts to examine rights ownership behind online publishers’ businesses and its importance to their long-term success.

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Date: 20 November 2008
Location: IPC Media Offices, UK

Open Source for Games Developers

Open Source for Game Developers will discuss the relative merits of their particular approaches in the context of the corporate games industry’s most recent successes to save a traditional business model by enforcing copyright law the hard way and potentially alienating future customers.

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Date: 28 October 2008
Location: 01zero-one, UK

"How can I protect my idea?"

So someone asks - "how can I protect my idea?"

Someone else says "put it in an envelope and post it to yourself."

Someone responds that that does nothing and is useless.

What is the reality?

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