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Protect Your Voice: IP Strategies for Speakers| Russ Riddle
November 09, 2023
5:30 PM CST - 9:00 PM CST
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Brookview Golf Course
316 Brookview Parkway S.
Golden Valley, MN 55426
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As a business owner, your most valuable asset aside from people is your intellectual property – those products and services you birthed to improve the world (and your bottom line, of course). This session will arm you with actions to better position, protect and manage your content and brand.
Valuable Takeaways:
- Distinguish between applicable intellectual property types • Understand the role AI now plays (and what it doesn’t)
- Ensure ownership from the outset (employees vs. contractors)
- Ace copyrights and avoid copy-wrongs
- Master the trademark DOs and DONʼTs
- Avoid “public domain” land mines
- Preserve, Protect & Defend — Police your I.P.
What do Barney® the purple dinosaur, Thomas the Tank Engine® and YOU have in common? All have been served (or are about to be) by Russ Riddle!
Having practiced marriage for 40 years, law for 32, fatherhood for 31, and braved adventures as a juvenile probation officer and professional speaker, Russ is convinced that we must never stop learning and laughing.
His love of levity stems in part from an intellectual property law practice that has served such clients as Barney®, Bob the Builder®, Thomas the Tank Engine®, the voices of Jimmy Neutron® and Larry the Cucumber®, as well as many NSA “characters” throughout the country.
Russ currently serves on the National Speakers Association’s Board of Directors and is a past chair of the editorial committee for SPEAKER Magazine. He’s the author of two books: Lawyer Up – The Smart Way and Persuasive vs. Abrasive – The judges have ruled, as well as the intellectual property manual Corral Your Cash Cow.
He is appropriately known as the “Anomaly at Law®,” for he’s down to earth, clearly communicates and lavishes others with levity.
Program Agenda
5:00 p.m. - Registration/Social Time
5:30 p.m. - Dinner
6:00 p.m. - Chapter Updates/Meeting
6:30 to 9:00 p.m. - Feature Program (with 15-minute break)
9:00 p.m. - Closing Remarks
Program Rates
- Early Bird registration before November 2, 2023
$ 0 - Professional Member & Speaker Academy Member
$79 - Returning guest
$39 - First time guest - Registration between November 3-9, 2023
$ 0 - Speaker Academy Member
$10 - Professional Member
$89 - Returning guest
$49 - First time guest
Cancellation Policy
We understand that sometimes you are not able to attend an event that you have paid for. All attendees are factored into our event expenses and therefore, we are not able to offer refunds, but would be happy to move your registration to the next event for you. Please contact our office for additional details.
Photography/Video Policy
NSA Minnesota reserves the right to use any photograph or video taken at any event sponsored by NSA-MN, without the expressed written permission of those in the photograph or video.
Tickets
$10.00 Professional Member
$0.00 Earlybird rate before November 2
$89.00 Guest
$79.00 Earlybird rate before November 2
$49.00 First Time Guest
$39.00 Earlybird rate before November 2
