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Patents? Copyright? Trademarks? You must know the rights which include all this stuff. They are everywhere in the creative industries. It's something that you mustn't avoid. But what is it? How to work with it? How to keep your work, your creativity? Let me give you some parts of the answer IP? What is this? According to the United Kingdom government the Intellectual property is Having the right type of intellectual property protection helps you to stop people stealing or copying : the names of your products or brands your inventions the design or look of your products things you write, make or produce They add that you must create physically something unique to count it as IP. An idea alone doesn't count as IP. How to make some research about it Today the IP rights are manage by one agency of the United Nations : World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) How to live with it? If you go visit the website of the WIPO you will see t...

Last week I talked about something that is linked with thsi post : freelancing. I want to come back to one sentence. I said that the number of freelancer increase significatively each years. I think it might be important said you this again because it's a great presentation of how networking is important in the creative industries. The best way to work on interesting project is to have contact with companies that they can contact you when they need you. Networking Networking you said? Networking is the act of make and using connection with others people . So, for you, having a network is to develop your professional reputation and to build a network with other people who can help you and who could work with you. In the creative industries Like I said in introduction of this post, networking is a good thing specially for freelancer because they can win trust of some companies to have a lot of work. But it is not only useful for them, build a good network can only be great ...