“IP and Copyright: Making it Work” – online workshop

IP and Copyright: Making it Work is an online workshop for artists and creative entrepreneurs, designed and delivered by David Parrish, in association with the Future’s Venture Foundation.

The interactive workshop is about intellectual property for creative, cultural and digital entrepreneurs includes:
– An overview of Intellectual Property: Copyright, Design Right, Trademarks and Patents.
– Advice about practical and inexpensive ways to protect your work.
– How to generate income from your intellectual property (including licensing and ‘making money while you sleep’).

Some short video extracts from the online workshop are below.

IP and Copyright: Making it Work

This workshop was delivered online on 02 June 2020 as one of David’s creative responses to the COVID-19 Crisis.

The following links provide further information about IP and Copyright: Making it Work:

Protecting Your Creativity. Chapter from book ‘T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity’ (link…)
Creative Labourer – or Creative Entrepreneur? Blog post about monetising intellectual property (link…)
Don’t Sell It, Rent It. ‘Ideas in Action’ case study about licensing intellectual property featuring Guillerme Marconi (link...)
Free eBook. ‘T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity’ (link…)
Intellectual Property and your work. Intellectual Property Office UK (link…)
COVID-19 Diversification, adaptations and derivative products (link…)

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Intellectual Property Rights: An Overview. A short video extract from the online workshop.


Who Owns Copyright? A short extract from the online workshop.


Intellectual Property Rights: It’s not just about the money. A short video extract from the online workshop.


How to Make Money While You Sleep. A short video extract from the online workshop.


IP and Copyright: Making it Work

There is a chapter on Intellectual Property in the book: “T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity”
[free eBook PDF / eBook (text only) / paperback / audiobook / signed copy]


Read about other events, webinars, interviews, resources and business advice, which are part of David’s response to the Coronavirus COVID-19 Crisis. The page includes videos of past events as well as notice of forthcoming events, plus some suggestions for future collaborations (more…)


David has designed a range of creative business training workshops which he has delivered in various countries around the world.

Read some client testimonials and recommendations from people all around the world who have commissioned David as a training workshop leader, keynote speaker or business adviser.

Creative business training workshops also draw on material in David’s books. Signed paperback copies of his books are sometimes included with the training workshop materials that participants take away to use in their creative businesses and cultural enterprises. Copies of books can be supplied for creative industries training workshops by arrangement.