The Professional Speaker's Mastery
How to Succeed and Prosper in your Career as a Speaking Professional

— The Professional Speaker's Mastery — Locus 6 Covering Your (Intellectual) Assets

"Do you practice safe speaking?" It's a serious question. The sad fact is, every time you open your mouth to speak (or display a PowerPoint slide, or refer to a page in your workbook, or... you get the idea), you run the risk of losing the rights to your intellectual property — your recordings, your printed materials, everything you've ever developed.

It doesn't have to be that way. You can protect yourself. But you're the one who must get the appropriate contract signed. Don't do it and you risk losing your most valuable assets!

This Locus of The Mastery — "Covering Your (Intellectual) Assets" — explores many considerations of copyrights and protecting your intellectual property, including...

• The crucial differences between a patent, a trademark, a service mark, and a copyright.

• Essential contracts that every professional speaker needs —

  • A Permission to Use Copyrighted Material contract

  • An Audio Recording contract

  • A Video Recording contract

  • A Broadcasting contract (so you can take advantage of satellite technology to spread your message around the world)

  • Both an Archive Audio Recording contract and an Archive Video Reording contract

  • A "Highlights" Video Recording contract

• Important steps for you to take so you don't lose your rights to your workbooks, PowerPoint slides, and other intellectual property.

"Covering Your (Intellectual) Assets" also answers vital questions like...

• You've probably heard that book titles cannot be copyrighted. Unfortunately, that's true. But do you know two ways you can stop someone from using ("stealing") your book title? They're even better than copyrighting!

• Do you know the single clause in your recording contract that can stop your innocent presentation mistake from showing up on a "bloopers" video on YouTube? This one simple phrase can save you from major embarrassment!

All this — and much, much more — is explored in The Mastery. Order your copy today!

Remember, your investment in The Mastery comes with a one-year guarantee of complete satisfaction. If you're not delighted with your investment, I'll promptly refund your full purchase price — no questions asked. (Here's my guarantee of complete satisfaction.)

In summary....

Too many speakers recognize the importance of having a written contract for their speeches, yet they ignore their peril in not having written contracts to protect their copyrights. Anytime you allow someone to record your presentation — from audio or video recording your presentation to duplicating your workbook materials or posting your PowerPoint slides on their intranet — without a contract protecting your copyrights, you run the risk of losing ownership of your intellectual property.

And that's a shame, because oftentimes a simple contract, properly filled out, gives you all the protection you need. That means that one single contract could more than pay for the entire Mastery. (Think about it.)

May you generate lots of content, and never lose your copyrights....

Jim Barber

PS — But this isn't just any plain ol' Mastery — this is "The Professional Speaker's Mastery". And that's why Locus 7 of The Mastery is your blueprint to Success on the Platform.