Y'all know what I'm talking about, it's been the buzz of the War Room (and most of us, our DMs from their CEO) -- Bravado Flex's new competitor, GlenCoco
Checked it out, because why not use both platforms if possible (side hustles on side hustles), and noticed some fairly concerning IP language in their contract --
I'm not a lawyer, but by all accounts it seems to stipulate that the rights to all work/content created by their contractors (us) while providing contracted services to the clients we're matched with is effectively surrendered to their platform and company.
Granted I'm newer to the consulting space, but is this unreasonable? Can anyone confirm how Bravado looks at this issue?
Here's the language for those interested in taking a stab at legal interpretation:
"CONTRACTOR hereby irrevocably assigns to ENTITY for no additional consideration, CONTRACTOR’S entire right, title, and interest throughout the world in and to all results and proceeds of the Contracted Services performed under this Agreement and all other writings, technology, inventions, discoveries, processes, techniques, methods, ideas, concepts, research, proposals, and materials, and all other work product of any nature whatsoever, that are created, prepared, produced, authored, edited, modified, conceived, or reduced to practice in the course of performing the Contracted Services or other work performed in connection with the Contracted Services or this Agreement (collectively, and including the Deliverables, “Work Product”), and all patents, copyrights, trademarks (together with the goodwill symbolized thereby), trade secrets, know-how, and other confidential or proprietary information, and other intellectual property rights (collectively “Intellectual Property Rights”) therein, including the right to sue for past, present, and future infringement, misappropriation, or dilution thereof. To the extent any copyrights are assigned under this section, CONTRACTOR irrevocably waives in favor of ENTITY to the extent permitted by applicable law, any and all claims CONTRACTOR may now or hereafter have in any jurisdiction to all rights of paternity or attribution, integrity, disclosure, and withdrawal and any other rights that may be known as “moral rights” in relation to all Work Product to which the assigned copyrights apply."
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