Intellectual Property for Creative Entrepreneurs
A course by Erica Wolfe-Murray , Intellectual Property Specialist
Learn to manage and leverage your assets further by exploring copyright, trademarks, design rights, and patents
Learn to manage and leverage your assets further by exploring copyright, trademarks, design rights, and patents
Understanding the relationship between your creative work and running a business is crucial for financial well-being. Protecting your intellectual property is essential to ensuring your ability to enjoy its financial benefit. Erica Wolfe-Murray, a specialist in intellectual property, dedicates herself to helping businesses and entrepreneurs across different sectors understand the value of the creative work they own and to increase revenues from them.
With clients like National Geographic and Disney, Erica’s role is to protect ideas,
products, and services, as well as to come up with new revenue opportunities. In this course, Erica teaches you how to manage and protect your assets, but also find new ways to enjoy their financial benefits.
What will you learn in this online course?
17 lessons & 7 downloads
- 95% positive reviews (56)
- 1,686 students
- 17 lessons (2h 26m)
- 7 additional resources (2 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Create a list of your intellectual property and assets, audit their value, and create a strategy to increase their revenue.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
This course is for anyone interested in analyzing their intellectual property and assets. Ideal for creative business owners or freelancers.
Requirements and materials
No previous experience is necessary.
You only need a pen and paper, but using colored pens and big sheets of paper is always more fun.
Reviews
A course by Erica Wolfe-Murray
Erica Wolfe-Murray is the founder of UK-based intellectual property company Lola Media. She is also a director of Taxo’d, a tax app that helps freelancers manage their business accounts and calculate and file their taxes online. Her career has seen her working with different creative sectors in advertising, graphic and product design, public relations, documentary production, and licensing.
Her client list includes big corporations such as British Airways, London Transport, Puma and Dairy Crest, as well as well-known companies and individuals such as Hackney Empire, Historic Royal Palaces, Harvey Nichols and TV chef Rachel Khoo. Erica is also the author of Simple Tips, Smart Ideas: Build a Bigger Better Business, which was a finalist in the Business Book Awards 2020. She has been featured in publications like Finance Digest, Forbes, The Mirror, and The Telegraph.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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About Me
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Inspiration
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U2
What Is Intellectual Property and Why Does It Matter?
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IP in the Creative Industries and Why It Matters
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Types of IP: Copyright and Trademark
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Types of IP: Design Rights and Patents
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Meeting Our Case Study
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U3
How to Identify Your Intellectual Property
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How to Look For Your IP and How to Audit Your Intellectual Assets
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How to Audit Your Existing IP
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How to Audit Your Existing Intellectual Assets
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How to Identify Value in Your IP and Your Assets 1
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How to Identify Value in Your IP and Your Assets 2
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U4
Devising a Strategy for Owning and Managing Your IP
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How to Manage Your IP on a Regular Basis
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IP Considerations With Your Team and With Freelancers
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Using Other People’s IP in Your Projects
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IP in Social Media and the Digital World
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U5
Other Aspects to IP
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Understanding What a License Is and When to Use It
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Creative Commons
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FP
Final project
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X Creative IP for Businesses
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Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.
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Meet expert teachers
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Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.
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1taylorpbjact
This topic has always intimidated me, but knowledge is power! I am really enjoying the pace of this course. I cannot wait to learn more and how this applies to me.
catalinaherraiz
This course is great, precise, easy to understand, and beautifully explained.
lnkhaurt
If only this course dealt with something more tangible like physical goods instead of filmmaking as the case study. I also wanted to learn more about the legal side of IP which I found lacking here.
sergiomtz_designer
Hermoso curso, me explica dudas que tenía acerca de mis creaciones.
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bubeligor
Interesting course and material, very good introduction to copy rights,