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  • PR firms put up with having their work copied without permission - until now

    Retainer work is hard to come by in the PR industry, which means most of your output is project-based. Worst of all, they might just use the written materials you produce without any payment to you at all. Now with PitchMark® Ideas.Exchange they are on notice that you reserve all rights to your work. If they accept it they can pay for it straight away.

    Your work may be difficult to quantify but whether on retainer or project based you should get paid for it
  • Graphic designers can now deter idea theft, and get paid for their designs

    Ordinarily graphic designers create creative pitches, marketing plans, logo designs, and more. The problem is when the prospect declines your ideas, only to implement your creatives by themselves or hand them to a competing design firm to execute. Now with PitchMark® Ideas.Exchange they can either award the contract to you, or they can license your concepts from you.

    Your graphic designs are your life blood, and you should get paid for your creativity
  • Architects can now sell their plans using PitchMark® Ideas.Exchange

    Ordinarily you create architectural drawings for a prospect. But then the prospect hires someone else to execute your plans and doesn't even acknowledge your work, let alone pay you for it. With PitchMark® Ideas.Exchange your prospect can instantly license your plans, and you get paid straight away by credit card.

    You've designed the construction plans, and you should get paid for your work
  • PitchMark It Before Pitch It: NTW 2025 Session Delivers Powerful Case for IP Protection in Sustainable Procurement

    Building on its success earlier in the week, PitchMark concluded its participation in Malaysia’s National Training Week (NTW) 2025, with a webinar on Friday, June 20th, for Chief Sustainability Officers concerning the importance of intellectual property protection in the context of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda. Entitled “Developing Compliance with SDGs 8 & 12 Through Ven

  • Protecting Ideas, Preserving Trust: How Pitchmark is Raising Awareness of Procurement Ethics at NTW 2025

    PitchMark continued its participation in Malaysia’s National Training Week (NTW) 2025, on June 19th by presenting a standout webinar entitled “Reducing Risk of Vendor IP Infringement” for Chief Procurement Officers to equip them with procedural guidelines and practical tools for respecting vendors’ intellectual property (IP) when receiving tender bids and pitches.
    Led by PitchMark Founder Ma

  • How Respecting Intellectual Property Drives Decent Work and Economic Growth

    In today's dynamic global economy, innovation is the cornerstone of sustainable progress. From medical breakthroughs to digital advancements, the ideas that shape our future depend on a framework of trust and fair recognition. At the heart of this framework lies intellectual property (IP), ensuring that creators, inventors, and businesses are justly rewarded for their innovations. For organization

  • World IP Day 2024: Why respecting intellectual property is key to promoting sustainable innovation

    Whether you are a creator or an innovator, it is crucial to get your work protected as intellectual property before you market it and get paid by vendors.
    To celebrate World IP Day 2024's theme - IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with innovation and creativity, PitchMark hosted an interesting webinar featuring PitchMark founder Mark Laudi, legal advisor Frank Rittman and our special g

  • Elon Musk's social media platform sued for copyright infringement by marketing agency

    Legal-marketing firm X Social Media LLC filed a lawsuit against X Corp (formerly known as Twitter), in a federal district court in Florida, alleging that the social media giant's new name and related marketing campaign violates its registered trade and service marks featuring the letter "X" constituting both unfair competition and a deceptive trade practice.
    The plaintiff is situated in Winderm

  • How the intellectual property is perceived around the world – a survey by WIPO

    According to a major new survey on consumer perceptions of intellectual property (IP), two-thirds of consumers have a favorable view of the function that IP plays in their economies.
    The findings of WIPO Pulse, the world’s first global survey of general awareness of and attitudes toward intellectual property, are based on responses from 25,000 (non-IP specialists) people aged 18 to 65 years old

  • US Federal Court denies copyright for Stephan Thaler‘s AI-generated art

    You can create all the generative AI art you want, but it won't be covered by copyright regulations.
    According to The Hollywood Reporter, a federal court determined that AI-generated art cannot be protected by copyrights since copyright law only applies to human people.
    After the US Copyright Office twice denied plaintiff Stephan Thaler a copyright for a picture produced by his program, the

  • Nigerian court orders Coca-Cola to pay compensation for copyright infringement

    Coca-Cola Nigeria Plc and it’s local bottler, the Nigeria Bottling Company (NBC), have been ordered by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Nigeria, to pay three million Naira (approximately USD 3,875) for copyright infringement of a person’s literary work, despite NBC’s argument that the works in question were not protected by copyright.
    The plaintiff, Onilemarun, claimed in the lawsuit t

  • Nicki Minaj accused of idea theft for her upcoming song "Barbie World"

    American rapper Nicki Minaj is accused of stealing the concept for her upcoming song “Barbie World” from other rappers Swaatie and Jason Martin.
    Martin, popularly known as Problem, took to social media to express his displeasure.
    Martin claimed that he and Saweetie wrote a song together, which they then sent to Minaj for a possible duet.
    Instead of nurturing this triangle of talent, he al

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