Intellectual Property Release Agreement
Intellectual Property Release Agreement
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🔒✨ Protect your side hustle with confidence! This contract template is perfect for educators, coaches, authors, course creators, digital product creators, and other professionals who want to ensure their independent projects stay theirs—not claimed by an employer as “work product” or “work for hire.”
👩🏫📚 Ideal for those juggling employment and personal creative work, this document clarifies ownership, securing your intellectual property and separating it from employer work.
Who It’s For:
- 👩🏫 Teachers/TPT Sellers
- 💻 Digital Product Creators
- ✍️ Writers
- 💡 Consultants
- 🧑🏫 Coaches
- 📚 Authors
- 🎨 Content Creators
- 👥 Anyone with an independent creative side hustle
What It Covers:
- 📚 Curriculum development
- 🛍️ Digital products
- 📱 Social media posts
- 🎥 Videos and 🎙️ podcasts/audio clips
- 🔴 Live video or campaign content
- 🖼️ Graphics, 📸 photography, and 🖋️ logos
- ✒️ Hand-lettered work and 🎨 illustrations
- 🌀 Patterns, 🌐 website copy, and 📝 sales copy
- ✍️ Blog articles and 📨 guest posts
🚫 Not the Right Fit If: You aren’t employed (or weren’t when creating the work or work product).
✨ Take charge of your creativity and secure your independent projects with this essential contract template. 🔐📝
Product FAQ
What does a contract purchase include?
Contract template in an editable Word .doc format with customizable fields/options
Video screenflow of attorney Brittany Ratelle walking you through the contract template
.PDF instructions, and our favorite hacks for customizing contract templates
Single-user license to edit, use, and reuse the template for your business purposes
Where can I use this contract?
Jurisdiction: This template adheres to the U.S. principles of contract law and is designed for those doing business or governed by United States law. While similar principles may apply in your jurisdiction, please consult with a local attorney for any specific questions.
What are the term of use for this contract?
Authorized Use: This template includes a single-user license. You may reuse this form as many times as you need for your business transactions, or in multiple brands or businesses as long as it is owned and controlled by the same user/purchaser. Brittany Ratelle, LLC grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the template in your business or personal affairs. You can send it to whoever you are doing business with for their signature (including their support staff), and you can send it to an attorney to review or edit. If you love our templates and want to share them with a friend, group, or audience, please become an affiliate and help us get others legally legit!
Prohibited Use: You may not license, sublicense, sell, resell, transfer, assign, distribute, or make this document available to a third party, other than the people listed above. You may not upload this document to a website, email it to someone, or otherwise share it publicly. Thank you for respecting creators and copyright law.
How do I get people to sign a contract?
E-signature platforms we like: HelloSign, DocuSign, Jotforms,
CRM/project management system we like: Dubsado, 17 Hats, Honeybook, and Harlow
Simply upload your polished document to a software platform and insert smart fields to make e-signature an easy-peasy process!