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Incredibly smart of him to hold the rights to his models personally, and only license them to 538 (and hence ABC/Disney).
by Scubabear68 4y ago
Incredibly smart of him to hold the rights to his models personally, and only license them to 538 (and hence ABC/Disney).
- eshack94 4y agoAbsolutely. Good planning and foresight on his part to enable him to retain ownership of his hard work.
- hackernewds 4y agoUnlike W-2 work where EVERYTHING you do on work machine/time belongs to the organization. It's almost a hostage sitt
- jerrygenser 4y agoEven as a startup founder, the best practice is to sign over your IP rights to the company since investors want to see this. So I can say even with a large equity stake in a new venture that's not w-2 work, you still sign over IP rights to an org.
- endisneigh 4y agoI’ve been told all information should be free lol. I’m glad there are some sensible people.
- dragonwriter 4y agoIf the models were Free, they also wouldn’t be locked up at Disney when he left.
- cyanydeez 4y agoIt's a political model and as such, it most likely will be gamed as the cost to manipulate people at scale using the patterns of behavior it follows is not disentangled.