And it wouldn't be amazing if we had an attorney here today that's won every award that you
can think of, that's been in the game for almost 25 years, that has written and prosecuted
hundreds of patents, that is a master of understanding intellectual property and understands the
future and is all in on AI.
And not just as a practitioner of law, but an entrepreneur himself, wouldn't that be
sick if I just went out and I got the best, and instead of y'all paying him 600 bucks
an hour, if you can even get access to him, that I just brought him out here right now,
roll the intro.
I'm going to
jump in.
Hey, how is everybody?
Edward, I just want you to know that you're in a position that I've been wanting to be
in like the entire day, like laying back, relaxed, like, dude, I mean, you were like
the epitome of how I wanted to be this entire day.
That's what I want to say.
I had a long day, so I'm ready for this now.
This is so good.
So you're, you're a double E, you're an electrical engineering also?
Electrical engineering, yep.
And I graduated from the University of New Hampshire Law School.
Come on, come on, it's so good.
LLM and IP.
That's awesome.
Yeah, so I'm double E also, but on top of that, when I went there, it was called Franklin
Pierce Law Center.
Yes.
That was, man, that place has changed, it's very different.
Hey, everybody, I want to welcome you all to the Protect Your Idea Challenge.
We're going to go very deep, guys.
What I tend to do is I tend to start out at a top level and then go deeper and deeper
and deeper.
I see a handful of people here who have been through this with me before.
And so there'll be there'll be some level of familiarity with
them. But we're going to cover new topics, as well. And one of
the things I try to do is respect everybody's time,
because every single person here has paid to be in this
challenge. Like that, this is not a free challenge. And
intentionally, like I could literally do this as a free
challenge, you get 1000s of people that sign up and make
ridiculous amounts of money. And I intentionally don't do that.
The reason why I don't do that is because I want to make sure
that people that are here are truly committed to what they're
doing. Like they truly are committed to themselves. And if
the people are willing to invest into themselves, am I literally
going to take a week off of working in my own law firm,
where I bill is $600 an hour invest all of that time into the
people in the room. And so everybody here has done that
everybody here has been committed to themselves. So I'm
committed to all of you. Like literally today, I think I
billed 35 minutes in the entire day, when I dealt with one of my
clients in Japan. And so that's the way it's going to be
literally every single day intentionally, I'm going to be
looking through your lives. We have a Facebook group. If you
guys have not gone live, I would strongly advise you to go live.
It's great. Other people here will get to know who you are,
what you do, what you're seeking all at once. Like just go live
in the group. Ray has this really cool little graphic that
will show you exactly how to do it. If you haven't done it
before. I know Erica has because she's got an acceleration t
shirt on. So I know you've been live girl, at least once. Right?
Oh, she's thinking about it. I gotta unmute you.
Okay. I'm usually at work when I've when I've done your
challenges. So this is the first time I've had dedicated time.
So
things that I've done a lot, but I will though.
All right, cool. Cool. So what I do is, during this week, we're
going to be covering trademarks, copyrights, patents, I'm going
to give you the secrets to practice. And what I mean by
that is like, in your own businesses, there are certain
things that are extremely important to you. So that other
people don't steal your ideas, so that you don't end up in a
situation where you're starting to create something. And then
you see your next door neighbors got the same thing, or you
create a funnel and somebody copies your funnel, or you come
up with a trademark, you start using it and then get sued two
and a half years later. And realize the reason why is that
you never did a trademark search. And some people that
I've talked to don't even know what a trademark searches. So
we're going to cover this and a lot more step by step. But the
first thing I want to do is go over some administrative things
to help all of you out to make sure this is the best experience
for you possible. Okay? You've met Larissa. She's the hostess
with the mostest. She's right there. Her hubby's probably
behind the wall somewhere. And like he just shows up
miraculously every once in a while. It's kind of freaky. And
then there's Ray. Ray's our operations manager. Everything
that works is because of her everything that doesn't work is
my fault. Okay, just so we understand that those that are
those are the rules, right? Right? Isn't that the way it
works? That's what Yeah, I thought that's the way it works.
Yeah. And exactly. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I've learned
these things takes a little while for me to learn, but I
got it. Now, please treat them with the utmost respect, which I
know you guys will. They're incredibly pleasant. And we go
through a lot of material as we're here. Everybody should
have seen in the Facebook group a handout. Okay, the link is
going to be dropped for the handout again here. This is a
private sheet, something that I created. I'll share it on the
screen so everybody can see it. This is something that I
created. I have the copyright on it. So don't go sending it out
to other people as a general rule. If it's something if
something that I'm providing here is okay for you to share
with others, I'll let you know. Otherwise, don't don't
disseminate my materials to others unless I give
authorization is generally a bad idea to steal the information
or the the creations of an intellectual property law lawyer
who's also a litigator who hasn't lost in court. Probably a
bad idea. I'm just saying, but that's the guy who's backing you
up right now, right? That's the guy who's training you. So
that's a good thing. So I'm going to be giving you things
like this and other things that are going to make you highly
effective. The beauty of this sheet is you can literally go on
here and look at any created work. Let's say as an example,
how many people here are writers just by a show of hands. So you
have like an ebook or something like that. Okay. So if you were
trying to figure out, well, I've got
I've got like a book, some kind of like, let's say I've got poems or I've got some other written
book. I can look on here and actually it even says poems. So there's poems are listed here,
books are listed here, and you just follow the line and you see that they're protectable by
copyrights. All right, really, really simple to use. One of the people in the group actually said
like, print this, laminate it, take it with you everywhere you go and you know exactly how to
protect anything that you need. Okay, so I'm going to be giving you other things that are
going to be very helpful, but I'm going to do something now that is highly unorthodox,
like really unorthodox. Every coach who's run challenges would say never do this.
I'm doing this and I did this once before intentionally. The reason why is because,
like I said, I do respect your time. A lot of people here are taking time away from their
families, they've invested their own money, and for this reason I do something that's very
different from everybody else in the industry. I let you know before we even start what the offer
is. The reason why I do this is because I don't want you guys thinking, oh this guy's trying to
build up my confidence and trying to tell me all these stories to try to sell me something in the
end. No, I'm telling you now what the offer is. Like on day one, all right, you're going to know
exactly what the offer is. Nothing's hidden. The reason why is because now that you know what the
offer is, we can just train you. I can just make you like outstanding entrepreneurs who are going
to be highly successful. I can cover you every way possible, even pray over you guys for your success
and not worry about anything, you know, going wrong because I'm not trying to sell something.
You see that that's one thing that I want to make sure works out well for you. So
Ray is going to start sharing a slide presentation. This is going to take about
four or five minutes to go through, and then we're digging right into the content in detail,
all right, and every once in a while I'll refer to certain features there so you know about it,
but the beauty of this I found, and a lot of people told me after I did this the last time,
was that during the entire week they were able, as they were learning, to look and see did that
offer cover what they just referred to, and when they found that, oh my gosh, the offer actually
covered that, and the offer covers this question, and it covers that, that makes a lot of sense.
It made it so much easier for them to realize whether the offer was right for them,
and so that's why I'm going to let you know right now we're going to go directly into it. So Ray,
can you share? All right, so this is called the, I think you have to mute your line,
all right, it's gone. This is called the Foundations in IP Package, all right, now the bottom of this you
see Nieves IP. A little bit about me, I was born in the projects of Brooklyn, like I was at times
sleeping on a bench, eating a can of corn for dinner, like I had homeless people actually help
me out at times, so I have a, I have this thing about protection. I like to make sure that, you
know, my mom raised me alone until my father won custody of me, and that's a whole other story.
That'll be another challenge one day, so, but the whole point being that I'm all about making sure
that people don't steal things from you, making sure that you receive the benefit of what you
create. For 25 years I've been an IP attorney. I've been ranked number one lawyer in IP for
New Hampshire. I've won Woodward White, Lawyer of the Year, Best of the Best, American Bar
Foundry Member, Super Lawyer. I mean, I've been very blessed, very, very blessed, okay. Why do I tell you
all this? The reason why I tell you all this is because I'm going to take all those tools to train
you, all right. One of my gift sets is also to make something make sense. Some of the most complicated
things you're going to learn, and it's going to be very simple for you to the point where you can
probably explain it to some lawyers, all right, who don't understand it. Now, Nieves IP is the
law firm that I created myself. I left my law firm. I was with a very successful law firm for 17 years,
built their patent law practice, and I left. The reason why I left was because I had this calling
to train people like yourselves. We've trained 1,200 people so far in how to protect their own
ideas, their own creative works, okay, and we've seen a lot of successful companies come out of
this, but Nieves IP came out of this because when I left my law firm, and they were kind of surprised
I left, but I left my law firm at the top. I was the head of the department, founded the patent
law department, and realized I had this calling to train others, and then also
to help others in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
So I did that, and I founded Nieves IP.
So part of this foundation and IP package
is actually legal services that are provided.
So instead of paying $600 to $1,000 an hour,
you don't have to pay any of that.
So let's go into the first slide real fast,
and we'll cover this fairly quickly.
The first thing that you get is a trademark clearance search.
I do this myself.
My team does this.
If you've got a new business,
how many people have a new business
that they started in the last like two years?
Just by a show of hands.
All right, we've got a good number of people.
So if you've got a new business, you've got a new name.
If you probably went to the Secretary of State's site
to see if you could use the name,
unfortunately, that's not a trademark search.
That comes as a shock to a lot of people.
I've had people who had looked
on the Secretary of State's website
to see if they could use the name that they selected,
and then got sued two years later
for trademark infringement,
believing that they could use the name.
If you haven't done a trademark search
for the name of your company
or the name of the product or service that you're providing,
you need to do it, all right?
That's a no-brainer.
It must happen, okay?
Because it's one of the simplest things that can be done,
one of the least expensive things that can be done,
and it has maximum impact because your name is right on it.
So a trademark search is done.
Next slide, please.
And we also include a trademark application, okay?
So the actual preparation of a trademark application
and filing it with the United States Patent
and Trademark Office, done, done.
You don't have to worry about any of this,
all done within the package, okay?
Next.
So, so far, just looking at those two things alone,
that's about a $2,400 value.
Go ahead to the next slide.
Like I said, we're doing this quick
because I wanna jump right in.
Now, we're gonna do something that's called an IP audit.
A lot of people here have their own company,
they're bootstrap companies, they took retirement money,
or they took some other funds to build a company.
And so they have some kind of creative works.
Now, the creative works you're gonna learn about
over these five days, they could be anything from names,
logos, slogans, domain names.
They could be funnels, websites,
could be pictures, artistic works.
It could be software,
it could be functionality associated with software,
could be tons of different things.
We do what's called an IP audit.
I usually charge clients $15,000 for this, all right?
This is done with many corporations around the world
who are my clients.
And I sit down with them for a good 90 minutes
to about an hour, maybe about two hours or so.
And during that period, it could go up to three maximum.
But during that period,
I give you a list of eight things to prepare beforehand,
everything from relationships with different individuals
to people working for your company,
to new inventions, ideas, new creative works.
And we sit down for two to three hours
and I assess everything
and tell you exactly what potentially could be protected,
how it could be protected, what that costs,
what's a good plan, what's a not plan, a good plan.
I break it all down for you within that time period.
And you get the actual audio,
the video and audio of that meeting, okay?
All at once.
Next slide, please.
The value of that, like I said, is 15,000.
So we're already up to a value of 17,400.
Next slide.
There's two more things we add.
Number one is what's called the protection portal package.
So now that we've actually sat down with you
and we've assessed your company
and told you everything that's valuable within your company,
how to protect it, what you should do first, second, third,
we place you into a year long network.
You can attend as many times as you want,
or you can attend as few times as you want.
It's up to you.
But every month for an hour and a half,
I go live with you and I answer your questions.
Now there's no legal advice.
And for those who don't know,
there's gonna be a lot of drinking as I'm teaching, all right?
So there's this tradition that started.
I say, there's no legal advice.
And whenever I do, everybody started drinking.
I didn't really understand why.
And then I caught on and I started drinking too.
So I tend to say that a lot.
This is not legal advice.
So during that time when we're together for that month,
for an hour and a half,
I will answer all of your questions
without billing you $600 an hour,
which is my normal billing rate, all right?
Now I won't give you legal advice,
but I'll tell you what the legal scenarios look like.
We'll break it all down, okay?
I also do hot seats,
which is where you actually.
get to engage with me directly.
I have my own attorney network.
This is up to me.
If I feel like you're ready to deal
with certain other attorneys in my network,
I might introduce you to them.
I don't charge anything for any of that.
There's a private Facebook group just for that,
just for the people that are in the protection portal.
Some of the people in the protection portal
are here right now, like Todd and others.
So next slide, please.
All right, so so far, everything put together,
you've got a value of $52,670.
I'm providing this to you guys for one payment of 59.95.
That's the offer.
That is literally what the offer is.
I'm not gonna be manipulating it.
I'm not gonna change it.
I'm not gonna try to double sell it.
This thing, like a very large percentage
of the people take this like that.
Immediately, they take it.
The reason why is because if you've got
a lot of different ideas or you're trying to figure out
what to do with your company,
it gets your company streamlined.
It lets you know exactly what to do first, second, and third
where you have legal rights already,
where you don't have legal rights.
Yeah, you can drop the link now.
Why not?
Go ahead.
There's people actually asking about it already.
So yeah, go ahead.
They can take it now.
It's fine.
The big thing about this thing is that
it takes time to do this.
So when people actually start registering,
they actually go on a list and then they have to be,
it has to be when I'm available to actually sit down
with them and do the audit.
And so it's just extremely powerful.
You'll see testimonies from others during the week on it.
I'm not gonna jump more back into this for now.
I want you guys to see that is the actual offer.
Everything that I mentioned is included,
all that for six grand, guys.
That's ridiculous.
It's a ridiculous offer, guys.
So if you are in a situation with your company
where you need to get everything assessed,
figure out what to do first, second, third,
or I don't know what name to use for my company.
I don't know what logo to use for my company.
We cover all that, everything in one session.
All right, you can go to next slide.
So we can close out of this and start jumping in.
All right, go ahead, next one.
That's Ray right there.
In case guys haven't figured out,
I didn't do that graphic, that's Ray.
She's just really gifted with all this stuff.
So, all right, so a few other bonuses you get.
You get to go into any future Protector Idea Challenge
at no cost, okay?
So some of the people that you see that are here
didn't have to pay for it again
because they took the package, it's included.
That's if you take this package,
the Foundations in IP package,
then you get to go in for a full year.
Next one.
I already talked to you about my attorneys around the world.
You can go to the next one.
So if you're bringing product into Canada,
I'll introduce you to like Paula Clancy,
or if you're trying to go into China,
I might introduce you to David Wong.
You know, I have agents in every country of the world.
All right, and this is the other part.
If you take this offer,
you also go into an affiliate program
where you make 10% of any,
if you refer anybody in,
you receive 10% as a bonus yourself, all right?
But the offer, you receive 5% of the offer
because it ends up being about $330 per referral.
You can go into the next one.
I think that should be it.
That's a lot of stuff we're giving away.
And that's your total value.
So that's the offer.
If you guys have questions, you can DM me.
You can stay after the first session.
We can talk in more detail.
We have now covered the offer.
We're done.
That's it.
That was the offer.
You guys saw it.
Saw our reveal.
Now I'm about to get into what I do, all right?
We're gonna start surgery right now.
We're gonna dig into intellectual property law.
Now, just by a show of hands,
this is a lot of people who I'm just seeing names for.
So just real quick,
because I want to see by a show of hands,
either virtual hands or real hands,
how many people here are interested
in artificial intelligence?
Like AI programs, platforms, I just want to see.
Even virtual hands, put them up just so I know.
I get a good gauge.
I want to see.
Yep, yep, yep.
All right, that's like 25%.
All right, I see 20.
That's about 25%.
All right, cool, cool.
I just want to have a good gauge.
So what's gonna happen in this training
is I'm gonna train you on specifics of the law,
how to apply it into your business,
and then I'm gonna show you how artificial intelligence
is being influenced by that,
what you do with it, what you do with it.
should do and shouldn't do with things like ChatGPT,
And then I'm gonna show you how you can apply it
MidJourney, Jasper, Otter AI, things like that.
into your business.
So let's get started.
I'm gonna show you how to apply it into your business.
For those of you that don't know,
I'm gonna show you how to apply it into your business.
there have been a lot of lawsuits
that have been filed recently, a lot.
Actually, maybe I'll start here.
This is probably a good place to start.
Let me start out here.
There's been a lot of lawsuits
that have been filed lately, all right?
Sarah Silverman sued OpenAI for ChatGPT
because ChatGPT basically has some of her content
and made it available after people type in prompts,
her content came up.
You're not allowed to do that,
which you're gonna learn today in copyright law.
It's illegal, you cannot do that, all right?
So for that reason, she sued OpenAI.
8,000 authors just sent a letter to the CEOs of Google,
OpenAI, and Intel, Microsoft,
and a number of other companies
because they want the royalties for copyright infringement.
So for those of you that don't know,
ChatGPT, it's an artificial intelligence software platform
that's out there.
What it does is it uses neural networks, all right?
That's a complicated way of just basically saying
that it tries to work like a human being,
to give you results that a human being would provide,
but it does it in a simplistic format.
The way that it does is you have to provide
what are called prompts.
So you have to type in what you want, all right?
So I might type in as an example, if I'm using MidJourney,
I might type in something like, you know,
I'd like an ocean scene with three palm trees
in the background, a Hispanic man sitting in a hammock
holding a pina colada that's non-alcoholic
because he doesn't do alcohol.
I'm just saying theoretically, all right?
So all of a sudden, boom, out comes this picture, right?
That thing that I just typed in, that's a prompt.
And for ChatGPT, I might say something like,
please assume the position of the lead marketing consultant
for ABC Corporation.
You've been hired to provide an email
to go to all members of the organization,
highlighting five main points from the following summary
in the last meeting, let the email highlight
the five points in a manner so as to make people excited
about working for the corporation, something like that.
Boom, I enter in the text, out comes five quick,
you know, points in an email, right?
That's what these programs are doing.
They work by what's called prompts.
You type it in and out comes everything, right?
You prompt it to do something, okay.
So what in the world does this have to do with copyright law?
We're about to jump into copyright law right now.
The reason why it's important is because
OpenAI scraped the internet, scraped it, right?
What does scraping mean?
It went onto the internet and took all data,
every image, every data file that existed up until 2021.
And it then cataloged it all,
threw it into its neural network
and made it accessible through prompts, okay?
Well, what if there's something illegal,
illegally there on the internet?
That means that what happened was that OpenAI is making,
through ChatGPT, is making available to you and I
things that may be there illegally,
meaning that they're copies of original works
that are not supposed to be there.
But since I typed in, as an example,
please create the next chapter of XYZ book
and what it does is it actually looks at the book
and it modifies the text and it spits out the result
to give me a new chapter,
that could be copyright infringement
because it's using the original work
and it's a modification of the original work,
which you're gonna learn today is called a derivative.
The only person who can actually create a derivative
of an original work is the copyright owner, nobody else.
That's why OpenAI just got sued by Sarah Silverman.
That's why Google just got sued, all right?
Just recently, like within weeks.
That's why last week, 8,000 authors sent a letter
to the CEOs of those corporations, I told you,
demanding royalties, demanding them.
They want them now.
They're threatening to sue major corporations.
All of this stuff you guys are learning about now,
you guys are ahead of the curve
because the next step is people are gonna start
suing people for the content that's coming out
of these AI platforms.
If the people don't make sure
that they don't commit copyright.
infringement or trademark infringement,
you're going to learn about that in the next few days.
So I'm going to show you the right ways to use these things
to make sure you don't get in trouble.
Does that make sense?
Does that sound like it might be helpful?
Yeah, all right.
My objective is to make sure that you don't need me.
All right, that's a weird objective, all right?
That's really a weird objective.
But that's my objective, to make sure that I train you enough
so it's very rare that you call me up.
Like, you guys are set, right?
And then when you go into the audit,
should you take the audit, we fine tune things,
and you guys are, boom, you take off.
And we don't have to worry about you guys getting sued
or anybody stealing your content.
All right, so let's jump into copyrights.
That's where I want to start out.
Now, I usually don't start with copyrights.
I usually start with trademarks.
However, we may tomorrow have a special guest.
He's dealing with some stuff on a personal level,
so with family and stuff like that.
So I'm waiting for a confirmation.
He confirmed last week, but I wanted to double check with him.
So Keith from the Copyright Alliance is supposed
to be here tomorrow, all right?
This is somebody who is called upon from Washington,
D.C. and other places.
He works in D.C. And Keith, he has a lot of experience
with what's going on in the Copyright Office specific
to trying to obtain legal rights for individuals
for any artificial intelligence created works, all right?
Now, I do a lot of that work as well, but I wanted to have a one
on one with him to talk about some of the legal changes
so you can hear about this before the public knows.
Like, nobody in the public knows this stuff.
There's a lawsuit that's being drafted literally right now.
It has not been released that we know about.
We'll tell you about elements of it,
but we can't tell you, you know, who the parties are.
You're going to find out about it within a week, though, okay?
So you guys are on the cutting edge of everything on this.
So let me jump into copyright law.
So a few things that we're going to cover.
One is, what is a copyright?
Another one is, like, what are the legal rights
that come with copyrights?
How can you use them?
How do you obtain them?
The very first thing to realize is
that copyrights protect an original work of authorship, all right?
It needs to be fixed in some tangible medium.
There needs to be some kind of author or creator, okay?
And it cannot be theoretical.
It can't just be in your mind.
It has to be fixed.
So that means, let's say I've got a thought, I've got an idea for a song.
But it's never been recorded.
I can't get a copyright for something that's not fixed.
I either have to write it out and seek to protect the words, the lyrics,
or I have to record it while I'm singing it and then seek to protect the song.
But I cannot just have it in my brain.
Like, I have to have it fixed.
It has to be original, meaning that it has to be new.
It has to be a newly created work.
You can't just, like, look at the wall,
take a picture of something, and then turn it into what's called an NFT
and then believe that you have legal rights to it
because the original work was the painting.
You took a picture of the painting and you decided to turn it
into a non-fungible token, right, an NFT.
And the result is you believe you have legal rights.
No, you don't have legal rights.
You're actually committing copyright infringement.
The original work was the painting.
You can't make a copy of a painting, all right, unless you have rights
that are given to you by the original creator of that.
So, again, it needs to be original.
It needs to be an author of some sort.
It needs to be tangible, a tangible means of expression, okay.
That's the basic definition.
Now, I'm going to talk about each of these elements one by one, all right.
The first thing, I said it had to be fixed, okay.
What does fixed mean?
Like I said, it could be a recording.
If you're talking about music, it could be recorded.
If it's a camera, you take a picture and a digital, you know,
a digital image comes out from your cell phone, right,
because who actually has cameras anymore?
I mean, I do, but still, most people are using cell phones.
You look at something, you take a picture, boom.
That digital work is now fixed, even though it's
in a digital format, that's still fixed.
So, it's got to be fixed, but it's got to also be original.
So, there has to be some minimal level of creativity that's added to this.
So, how many people here know what the Mona Lisa looks like?
Just by a show of hands.
All right, that's a lot of people, okay.
a lot of people. Now, how many people? All right, Todd, you
can't answer this. Tony, you can't answer this. Desiree, you
can't answer this. There's certain people that are not
allowed to answer this. How many people know it's in the
background of the Mona Lisa? Look at that. Julie, Julie, you
know, it's in the background. Julie, do you want to share?
I'm probably wrong. It looks like she's outside. Yeah, it
looks like there are trees. Uh huh. And I feel like there's
like, water or like, of some sort.
That that's pretty impressive. That's pretty impressive. Most
people don't remember that. That's right. There's a body of
water in the background. But here's the thing. How many
people care? Yeah, I don't see anybody's hand go up, right?
Because because the essence of the Mona Lisa is what her face,
her face, right? I just had to do that her face. Like that's
the essence of the Mona Lisa the face. Okay. None of the other
stuff. Does anybody care about so the rights for a copyright
are focused on what the essence of the copyright is. Okay. So if
it's a painting, like the Mona Lisa, the face is the essence of
it. So let's say you copied the background of the Mona Lisa, and
through your face on it. Like, you know, there's a picture of
me with that background. I don't believe well, of course, there
is the fact that the I believe the copyrights already expired
because the thing's so old. But the fact that matter is if the
copyright was still legitimate today, nobody's going to care.
Because it's not the essence of the copyright. Now you take that
face and you take that face right now using as an example,
I'm going to be dropping little hints to you guys. You guys go
out there and you use mid journey. And you take Mona
Lisa's face. And you put Mona Lisa like on the beach.
copyright infringement.
You got you got to think about this stuff. All right, you got
to figure out what's the essence of the copyright? What's the
essence of the work? What's the most important part of the work?
What's that part that everybody is going to want to make sure
nobody can copy? You grab some of the water that's in the
background, the Mona Lisa, and you throw it into your own
painting. I'm pretty sure you're not going to run the problems
you take her face and you put it in outer space on Superman,
you might get in trouble. Okay, because it could be considered
copyright infringement. And this is happening every day using
mid journey right now. Right now this is happening guys. lawsuits
are getting filed every single week against people that are
using mid journey. Because it's only because they don't know how
to use it. There's a right way to use it, which I'm going to
walk you through. Okay. So just to be clear, just everybody
knows here, my teams here, some members of my team are here,
they'll tell you I use artificial intelligence
practically every day. I got no problem with it. But I know how
to use it and not get sued. That's my intent is to make sure
if you guys use it, you don't get in trouble. So what's mid
journey? Good question, Mary Lou. Mid journey is an
artificial intelligence software platform that allows you to type
in specific words or upload images and receive a result that
is an image, right? So you can actually tell it what you want
as a result, using typed in prompts, or you can actually
upload your own images and do modifications to it. There's all
sorts of really cool things you can do. But basically what the
software is doing is it's doing modification, it's taking other
things that it's scraped other images that have been available,
it's modifying things and spitting something out to you as
a result. The problem is that a lot of marketing companies are
using these tools, and not realizing that the results are
actually the conglomeration of other people's legal works. And
so lawsuits are being filed. So you got to make sure that
whatever you're getting, doesn't infringe upon another person's
work. And I'll walk you through. I'll walk you through some
examples how to do that. So it's got to be original, it's got to
be a newly created work. It's got to be fixed. Okay. Now it's
not granted on ideas, it can't be theoretical, it can't be a
process, it can't be a system. Those aren't the things that are
actually protectable by copyright. Alright, so now what
are things that can be protected by copyright? For this, I
actually created a slide for you guys. And I'm going to post this
in your in the in the Facebook group. So you guys have it. Oh,
and so you guys know this is all being recorded.
I didn't actually mention to you this is all being recorded so if there's
something that you miss we got you covered because the recordings we
haven't had issues fortunately praise God with recordings hopefully we don't
in the future but you'll have access to those recordings for 30 days for those
of you who have signed up for VIP I'll give like a one-minute thing on VIP guys
if you have a company get in VIP that's all I have to say the reason why is
because you're gonna be able to ask your own questions you're gonna get feedback
you're gonna have a live trademark application filing you're gonna see like
a live logo searching at the United States Patent and Trademark Office we're
gonna walk you through things live and allow you to ask questions and interact
guys you're just not gonna get that anywhere else it doesn't exist lawyers
don't do this okay they just don't because we bill at 600 to a thousand
bucks an hour so doing this doesn't make sense to a lot of lawyers okay I'm
doing this because I want to make sure that you can see you can ask questions
about what you've learned and you can start using some of the tools some of
the homework you're gonna get in VIP is actually to do what we're talking about
and then come back and ask questions say hey I didn't understand this but you're
not gonna get a bill at the end of the day that's the beauty of it so with that
being said the VIP why don't you drop the VIP link right just so people have
it because honestly just so everybody knows in the last 10 minutes 50% of you
are gonna try to figure out how to sign up for VIP I'm just I'm just telling you
this is what gonna happen it happens every time okay because the value is
pretty remarkable it's $195 extra you get five more hours with me which is at
least $3,000 worth of value and you're gonna learn how to follow trademark
application beginning to end that's not for you to file your own application but
for you to get everything together so when you hand it to an attorney you pay
a fraction of the cost imagine not spending 1,500 bucks for a trademark
application because the USPTO fee is only 250 bucks guys I'm saving you a lot
of money with some of these things that I'm showing you guys all right so with
that being said let me share my screen share screen here we go these I said
let me make sure you can see it first everybody see it okay awesome all right
these are the different categories of protectable works under copyright okay
so this is what I want you guys to do in the chat because I'm gonna look at this
myself this is for your own benefit in the chat I want you to type the number
of the category that's associated with things that you're doing so you might do
multiple things then type multiple numbers all right so if you type like 23
I know that you're doing musical works and dramatic works just type it in the
chat because that's gonna help me know tomorrow when I go in more detail on
copyrights where I should focus because then I'll know oh there's a lot of
writers or there's a lot of like people that are doing sound recording or
whatever it is so just type in the chat the number all right number one literary
works these are the books ebooks if you've got actual physical books that
you're creating here's an aside just something as an aside right now guys if
you're working with a publisher you want to maintain the copyright for any books
that you're creating maintain the copyright yourself why
there are certain legal rights that you have as a copyright owner and only you
have these rights that means rights like copying it modifying it displaying
it talking about it those kind of things like publicly speaking what's in the
book namely like I don't know if you guys have seen this there's a lot of
coffee shops that you go to these are really hip places like they play jazz
music in the background I'm thinking people snap a lot in there they probably
do that a lot right yeah I think yeah Larissa's seen them and they actually
read a book like they just get together and they read a book right so yeah so
anyways those places you can't actually do that in a public forum unless you
have a legal right to do that because that's actually publicly speaking the
written work which you're not allowed to do you can talk about the book all you
want but you can't stand there and just talk you can't read it word for word
it's amazing the power of a copyright and somebody type in the chat how much
you think it costs to get a copyright I'm just curious
how much do you think it costs to get a copyright what does the copyright office
charge you hundred bucks let's see 350 keep going
60 getting good getting close getting close
It's $65 right now, I believe, to do a copyright.
So for $65, guys, for $65, you can stop people
from stealing your books,
from doing public displays of your books,
talking about your books, selling your books,
all these things for 65 bucks, guys.
That blows my mind.
It's the least expensive
of all the intellectual property rights that are available.
That's phenomenal.
If anybody's writing a book,
you should look at filing a copyright application.
Tomorrow, I'll actually show you
where you go to actually file it, all right?
So category number one, books.
Oh, and by the way, your blogs,
protectable under copyright.
If you have competition going into your blogs,
copying all your blog copy,
and then throwing it into a book and printing it,
they just committed copyright infringement.
If you have a federal registration,
meaning that you filed for a copyright,
they now owe you statutory damages.
Send them one cease and desist letter
and watch how quick they go away.
I had a client come to me
who had people stealing their website.
I actually filed a federal trademark application
for his entire website,
sent cease and desist letters to dozens of people.
They all stopped.
Every one of them stopped
because they saw federal protection for 65 bucks.
This is a no-brainer.
All right, musical works.
Those are all protected.
So if you're singing, if you're singing on TikTok,
now this kind of, for those of you that use TikTok,
you're probably wondering, well, hold it.
TikTok like takes my work
and then lets other people do a duet and make copies of it.
Yeah, they do.
And it's all copyright infringement.
But a lot of people have waived a lot of their rights
when they use a lot of these platforms.
So one thing I'm going to teach you guys
is that it's not just about
are there legal rights you can obtain?
Should you spend the money on legal rights?
That's not what we're getting at.
What we're trying to, we want a level of knowledge
so that we can make the right decisions as business owners.
We want to know, okay, I've got a new software application.
This software application has code.
It's been written by a third party.
I need to obtain the copyright for the code.
That's what I want you to be thinking.
You have your own business
and you're hiring a third party on Fiverr
or wherever it is to create a new app for you.
You need to make sure in your agreement it says,
they hereby assign all right, title and interest.
Right, title and interest.
Those three words are really important.
They hereby assign all right, title and interest
to the copyright and all legal rights associated with it
to you or your company.
That's vital.
Why?
I've seen this happen, guys.
Person spends $85,000 on a software app.
Has it created by somebody that they hired.
They get the copy of the app, which they want.
They start using the app.
Their competition within two months
comes out with a competing software package
that functions exactly the same.
Exactly the same.
The only difference is that there's a slight modification
in the graphical user interface,
meaning like the way that it looks.
Everything else is 100% exactly the same.
They send a communication out
to the actual software developer.
And they say, hey, such and such has the exact same app.
Do you know anything about this?
Oh yeah, they hired us to create an app just like you.
So the first company says, well, you can't do that.
I paid you $85,000 for that software program.
And the company says, yes, you did.
And we gave you the software program, didn't we?
They said, yes.
And so they said, but you don't own the copyright.
We own the copyright.
We created the code.
As the creator of the code, we own the copyright.
And so the first company says, well, I own the copyright.
They said, no, you don't.
You didn't buy the copyright.
Nowhere in the legal agreement does it say,
all right, title and interest to the copyright.
What happened as a result?
The competition had the exact same platform.
And you know how much they charged for that?
$65,000.
You getting this?
This is how the companies work.
So they made $150,000 off of somebody else's idea.
You gotta learn how copyrights work.
So anytime you work with a third party
and they're working on your software,
they're working on your book,
they're working on your pictures,
they're working on your trademarks, your logos,
you want all right title and interest to the copyrights,
to the trademarks.
to the patents, like you want all IP rights.
This is vital.
When you actually obtain these legal rights,
nobody can take advantage of you.
Now you truly and honestly own it.
I've seen people hire GoDaddy to create a logo.
Logo is created for them, handed to them.
A year later, they get a bill from GoDaddy.
They say, what's the bill for?
GoDaddy says, it's a license
for the logo we created for you.
The first company says, well, hold it.
I hired you to create the logo.
They say, yeah, I created the logo for you,
but we own the copyright.
Guys, this is happening every day.
So make sure you own the copyright.
All right, Dramatic Works, doo doo, Dramatic Works.
So this is like, if you're doing a play,
you can actually own that.
Pantomimes, all you guys that can do this stuff.
Like that, right there, right there.
If any of you guys do what I just did,
that's copyright infringement.
I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.
Because it's not fixed.
But it is recorded, so technically it is fixed.
But anyways, we'll move on.
So Pictorial Works.
So if you're taking a photograph of something,
that's protectable under copyright.
Motion pictures, same thing.
Sound recording, same thing.
Architectural works.
All of those things are protectable under copyright law.
Are you guys getting an idea
of how important copyrights are now?
The least expensive of all intellectual property rights
that exist, and it's powerful.
Well, here, I got good news for you.
I got good news for you.
But I'm not gonna tell it to you yet.
I'm gonna go through one more thing first, okay?
All right, don't get frustrated.
I see some of you getting frustrated.
It's all right, it's all right.
I'm gonna go through one more thing beforehand.
I want you to understand what legal rights you have
with a copyright.
Then I'm gonna go into the really good news, all right?
Okay.
So what kind of rights do you get as a copyright owner?
You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna share a slide with you again.
Why not?
Let me share.
I have two slides on this,
and so I'm just gonna share these with you,
and I'm gonna throw them in a Facebook group too
for you guys.
And here we go.
All right, these are rights that are granted by copyright.
Okay?
Right here.
You have the right to reproduce the work,
the right to prepare derivatives.
Now, what's a derivative?
A derivative is a modification to the original work.
So think of it this way.
Let's say you took the Mona Lisa
and you put Michael Jackson's glove on one of her hands,
right?
Like something like that.
Like that's a derivative of the original work.
Or you put a mustache on her.
That's a derivative of the original work.
Okay?
It's a slight modification that,
where the modification is not so substantial
that it warrants a whole new legal right.
It's just a modification to the original work.
So somebody is taking Desiree's painting,
and they're just like changing one thing.
That's a derivative.
They can't do that.
The only one who could do that is Desiree.
Okay, somebody takes Tony's painting behind her.
Let's say Tony created that painting, right?
Did you create that painting, Tony?
She didn't.
Let's say Tony did.
Tony did, Tony did.
All right, so let's say you did.
And so what happens is somebody puts a gigantic stick
in the middle of it,
and it looks like a gigantic lollipop, right?
That is called a derivative.
It's a modification to the original.
It doesn't warrant its own copyright.
It's a modification.
So nobody else could do that but Tony.
Nobody else.
Otherwise they would commit copyright infringement.
Making copies of it can't be done by anybody
except the copyright owner.
Nobody else.
Publicly performing it, nobody but the copyright owner.
Publicly displaying it, nobody but the copyright owner.
So if you go into a bar, you go into a restaurant,
you know how it's playing music in the background?
They have to pay a license to play that music.
They can't just play the music.
They're playing BMI or they're paying ASCAP,
a royalty, every year to play that music.
Otherwise they'd be sued.
How do I know this?
I used to represent BMI.
They hired me to actually enforce their legal rights.
I stopped doing that because I just didn't like it as much.
But anyways, I used to represent them
and enforce their legal rights, okay?
Against corporations for playing music
without having a license.
All right, and in sound recordings, again,
to play the music, you gotta be able,
you have to have the original copyright.
Now, some of you might be asking,
well, hold it, man, I'm having a barbecue.
My family's coming over, I'm just playing music.
All right, in those circumstances,
it's just like, you're just doing it
for your own personal consumption.
You don't have a financial gain for doing that.
you know, so that's different. Like if I invite Erica and Karen and Rosie and others to my place
for like a hundred bucks and we're going to have like a musical performance of all like
the Prince tracks and they're paying to come in to listen to Prince and Purple Rain and all
the other ones, right? If that's the case, to listen to the artist formerly known as Prince,
who then became Prince after he no longer was Prince, to do that, that actually would be
copyright infringement because you're performing his, what actually belongs to him in his estate,
okay? I can't charge you for that. That wouldn't be right. I can't do that.
All right, so let me walk you through a few more things and then we're going to stop. We're going
to go like 10 minutes over today because we have a lot of intro stuff now. Oh, for those of you
that are going to sign into VIP, do it now, like and test everything now because this way you can
DM Ray, you can email Ray, you can ask all the questions and Larissa, Leah, Larissa, go ahead.
If you are going to like sign up right now, tell us just in the chat. You could DM me or Ray right
here or just tell everybody, hey, I'm signing up right now. Therefore, we'll make sure we get you
in. Right, and what we do guarantee in VIP is you can ask at least one question. We usually have
way more than one, but in any case, you'll be able to ask at least one question and we'll respond to
you there, okay? So even in that one answer alone, you get more than your value back. Okay, so
looking at copyright, I think I want to show you that what the proper
notice looks like because everybody gets this wrong and it's kind of disturbing and
people get in a lot of trouble because they do it wrong. All right, the way the copyright notice
is supposed to look is it's the circle C, right, the circle with the C in it, and then the year
and then the entity that owns it, okay? Ray or Larissa, just type that in the chat, all right,
so you can see what it looks like, all right? So the circle C, the year, and the entity that owns
it, okay? That's the way the proper copyright notice looks. It is not circle C, then the word
copyright, then the year, then the party owns it because what you're essentially doing is you're
saying copyright, copyright. So every legal mind in the world is laughing. You don't want to do that,
okay? So just to either write the word copyright or use the circle C, they mean the same thing,
then use the year, then use the entity that owns it. So let's go into the year. What's the year
about? When you actually create the work and any modifications that you make to the legal work,
that those are the years that you list, okay? So let's say that in 2021, I created that form that
I gave to all of you. So you'll see on the bottom, the copyright symbol 2021, and then the entity or
the person who owns it. It's right there, okay? Now let's say I modified it this year to add
something. Then what it would say is circle C, the year that I created it, comma, the year that I
modified it, so 2023, and then the entity that owns it. That would be a proper copyright notice.
The reason why you're using a copyright notice is for what? Somebody raise your virtual hand
and tell me why in the world would you use a copyright notice? Either raise your real hand
or your virtual hand. Anybody? Erica, go ahead. So that someone else will know
if they were first or you were first in using whatever the content. That's right. That's
exactly right. The reason why you're doing that is because you want the public to know, hey, guys,
this is mine. This is my territory right here. This is my image. This is my painting. This is my
final work. This is my book. This is my sculpture. This is my video, my music,
whatever it is. This is mine. There's a notice. You now know. Stay away.
The beauty of it is then if other people infringe upon it, you can argue that they had noticed.
They knew it because you marked it, okay? But remember how I told you there was good news?
Here's the good news. Whether you use the copyright notice or don't use a copyright
notice, you still have legal rights. Whether you use it right, if you use it or you don't use it.
You still have legal rights.
The problem is that when it comes to enforcing,
I'm a litigator, guys.
I've litigated in Texas, Eastern District, Texas,
Southern District, California, Florida, Connecticut,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and some other place.
I can't think of the other one.
There's one other.
But in any case, I've litigated multiple places.
All the courts treat it the same way.
If you place somebody on notice, you
have a higher chance of obtaining damages
for their infringement.
If you don't place anything on notice,
then the other party is just going to say, well,
I didn't know.
How am I supposed to know you had
legal rights to your work, right?
And then you're going to get into this nasty legal battle.
My job is to make sure you minimize your legal costs.
I want to minimize how much money and time you're spending.
My objective is, you know what?
Anita comes out with this really cool new funnel
or this really cool new painting or whatever it is.
She puts a copyright notice on it, and everybody stays away.
She doesn't spend a penny on a lawyer.
I did my job.
That's it.
God bless you, Anita.
Go conquer the world.
Like, she's done, all right?
What I don't want is for her to have to come back to me
and, look, I'll support her.
But I don't want to have to come back to me two years later,
say, hey, you know, one of the people in here,
Edris, saw this.
And Edris was like, man, that looks good.
I'm going to make a copy of that.
I'm going to start using it.
But he never knew that Anita had a legal right to it.
And so when Anita tries to stop him, he's like,
I'm sorry, I didn't know.
I'll stop now.
And damages will start from the point of either,
I don't want to get too complicated now,
but when you file a copyright application,
you get what's called a federal registration, all right?
You file an application, you get a federal registration.
It's like filing to get something.
What you get is a registration.
That's what it's called, OK?
When you get the registration, you can enforce it.
If you don't get the registration,
you can't enforce it, all right?
So you have legal rights now, even though you
didn't file anything and even though you didn't place
any notice on anything.
But if you ever want to enforce your rights,
you need to file for something.
That's what you got to remember.
So let's say you have a book.
You never filed for a copyright application.
And all of a sudden, somebody steals your book
and you want to stop them.
You've got to file for a federal registration
so you can now go after them and say, look,
I got a federal registration.
I'm going to bring you to court for infringing
upon my legal work.
And then when you go after them, you
can potentially go after damages.
But you're not going to get damages prior to the date
that you actually filed.
That's why I'm telling you guys, $65.
Tomorrow I'm going to walk you through the website,
how to file it.
Do it for $65.
If you can avoid hiring a lawyer for $65 to it, it's worth it.
All right, so we talked about copyright notice
and we've talked about a number of things.
What's a copyright?
What's a derivative work?
We'll talk about tomorrow in more detail.
But the basic idea is your creative works are protectable.
That's the very first thing.
They're protectable.
Your paintings, your sculptures, your images,
your video recordings, your music, all of it's protectable.
Most of it is protectable under copyright.
I'm going to post in the Facebook group
the actual sheets that I showed you on the screen.
They'll be there.
So don't worry about, I didn't get to write it fast enough.
I got you covered.
I want to make sure you guys are highly successful.
I got you covered.
Tomorrow we're going to go in way more detail.
And VIP, right after this, we're going
to start asking questions and going back and forth.
I'm going to also go into more detail.
I'm going to give you a preview of the Copyright Office website
today so you can do some testing on your own,
look at some of the videos that are there so you can learn
some more stuff over there.
We'll go into that in VIP right after this.
And I'm also going to take some of your questions.
I don't want to overload you too much on day one
because we're going to cover a lot of material today.
So so far, what we've learned is, is it manageable so far?
Yeah, is anybody really, really, really confused?
No, that's good.
That's good.
If anybody's really confused, get in VIP.
But we're going to talk about for probably
another two more minutes, a little bit more in copyright.
But I want to make sure you understood
what we talked about so far.
So least expensive legal right, easy to get, easy to file.
Copyright dot, actually, I'm going
to show you the site right now so you guys can play.
This way, you guys can play on your own.
All right, this is the website.
website. I always give way more than I say I was gonna give. I
know Ray right now is like, you don't cover that today, too. I
know. I know.
That's why we love you.
I just had to do it. Now. I'm like, look, this way they get to
play. They can go home play around the site. All right. This
is the website. copyright.gov. That's the site. Okay. The
beauty of this site is you can just go right over here and go
hover over registration and select registration. And here
are all the different types of works that we talked about.
literary works, performing arts, visual arts, digital content,
music, motion pictures, photographs, all you do is so
let's say you're writing a book, you select literary works, you
scroll down, check this out. Here's a video to watch it to
teach you about what applications look like. If
you're not sure if you fall into the category of a literary
work, there are videos here to talk about what a literary work
is. It's all right here. And they're not here's the beauty of
it. It's not like a five hour video. These are like 10 minute
videos, two minute videos, very easy to follow. Okay, so you can
just watch some of these videos. And just kind of get a little
more information tomorrow, we're going to talk a lot more about
copyrights. And then we're going to start digging into
trademarks. But I wanted to start out here, because now you
can go on to the site tonight, play with it, see what it's
like, you can't really make a mistake on the site, it's pretty
easy to use. So I wouldn't worry too much about that. But just to
give you one more thing on the artificial intelligence side,
and we're going to cover this in more detail tomorrow. In
artificial intelligence, and what's created through chat GPT
mid journey, otter AI, any of these platforms, here's what the
biggest issue is. The number one issue is the Copyright Office
believes that the author is the artificial intelligence. Okay,
that's what they believe is what this is, these are the words of
the Copyright Office, the one who created the the actual legal
the entity, the work that's created, the final image that's
rendered from mid journey, the final book or writing or essay
or poem that's created by chat GPT, the one who actually
created it, they believe is artificial intelligence. The
Copyright Office has come out with a statement to say, they
will not provide any rights, any legal rights under copyright law
to anything created by artificial intelligence. That is
the statement from the Copyright Office. We're going to
cover that more tomorrow. Okay, there's a way around this.
There's it's tricky. It's very tricky. There's a way around
this. If any, if any of the content that we've covered so
far, any content that you know, we're going to cover, you
believe is going to be valuable to some of your friends, let
them know now because we close the door on Wednesday. So if you
want to share this with others, share with others, let them know
how to get in, they can register up to Wednesday,
Wednesday, we close the door, because it's just too difficult
to bring people up to speed. past Wednesday, it's just,
there's too much content at that point. Okay, so doors open up to
then like, just spread the word, let people know, because we're
going to be changing the format somewhat in the future to doing
one on trademarks, one on patents, one on copyrights, we
likely won't have like one like this that covers everything you
guys are part of a unique, unique program. We're gonna be
trained, we're gonna be changing things a little. Yeah, VIP also
gives you access for 90 days. So for those of you that want
access to the videos for longer period, it gives it to you for
90 days as well. All right. All right, I'm gonna stop there.
Tomorrow, we're going to dig into a lot more detail in the
copyrights. Hopefully, Keith will be able to join us. I just
pinged him to see to confirm. And so we're going to dig into a
lot more tomorrow. Okay, I think that's enough for today. I don't
want to go a lot more deep, deeper. Is this helping you guys
so far? Just by a show of hands helping you guys? All right,
cool. Cool, cool, cool. All right, cool. So here's your
homework. Your homework is to go live in the Facebook group and
give one thing that you learn just one you don't have to if
you feel inspired to give more go for it. But just go live in a
Facebook group and say one thing that you learn. All right. Now
the reason why this works is because when Karen Baker goes in
there and does it, all of a sudden Tony is going to go Oh,
man, I didn't see that perspective. I didn't know it
works that way. Wow. So part of
I'm trying to build here and what's been very successful in building this
protector idea challenge is that you're going to support each other.
You're going to see something that somebody else didn't see, maybe
even something I didn't see.
That's possible.
And so go live, say, Hey, here's the one golden nugget that I got.
The one thing that's really important.
And if you want to even share how you're going to apply it to your own business,
you can do that, but do at least one, please, because it's going to help all of
you, all of you going to help each other.
And then obviously you feel free to go live in the group and say who you are a
little bit about yourself, because there may be other people here that need your
services.
And I've got no problem with people learning about others here.
Okay.
Just don't go dropping links to your next challenge in here that don't do that.
All right.
Well, bless all you guys.
A VIP we'll start in 10 minutes.
So 825, anybody who has any questions about the logistics or VIP, you're
thinking about it.
You're not sure if you should do, do it, stay here.
I'm going to stay here for the next few minutes, answer any questions.
Um, and so I make sure that you guys are well taken care of.
So otherwise I'll see you guys tomorrow.
Uh, that's it for day one.
And, uh, tomorrow we'll dig in, in more detail.
So if you've got a question at all, like I said, about any of the logistics,
just raise your virtual hand and let me know.
Thanks Peter.
Thanks.
Other gal leaders.
Bye everybody.
You got to take care of Desiree.
Have a good VIP.
Love you Desiree.
Peter, what time are we starting to get VIP?
Did you say?
825.
All right.
So this, this is so cool.
19074.
You know, that is like the coolest name ever.
I just want to say like, I want to be 777.
Can I do that?
Cause I'm shaking not stirred.
And I think, I think that's a good name for me.
007.
No, that's somebody else's name.
I don't, I don't know how that, that happened with 1 9 0 7 4.
I don't, I have no clue.
But, um, my, my question, I, I, I thought I was on here on time,
but apparently I wasn't.
Um, what time are you going to start tomorrow?
Yeah.
Uh, seven o'clock.
We started seven o'clock Eastern.
Okay.
Eastern.
I see why I made the mistake.
I'm in Alaska standard time.
So I'm about four hours.
Alaska standard time.
So that's four hours.
Four hours, uh, a four hour difference.
Yes.
So I, I guess, um, so I, I probably won't be able to put something in it.
Cause I wasn't long on long enough to, to, to get anything, but I wanted to
check to see if I was, um, I did sign up for, uh, the VIP, if not, I want to go
ahead and do that thought I did, but I'm not absolutely certain Ray.
Can you just get his name?
Just because I don't think we have a nine zero seven four registrar.
Yeah.
So my name is Addison.
That's a D D I S O N.
Uh, last name Reynolds as in Reynolds wrap R E Y N O L.
Yes.
Right.
Addison, I think you and I have exchanged emails before.
Give me a few minutes.
I'll go check for you.
We have, um, in the meantime, grab the link from the chat and just in case you
didn't, and so that way when this closes, you can, um, if you didn't join VIP, you
can.
Okay.
All right.
I'm actually looking rare.
Are you going to look in chat and, uh, click funnels right now?
Yes.
All right, cool.
I'm already in it.
Let me look this really fast, but you can answer questions.
I'll take care of it.
All right, cool.
Thank you.
Next question.
Julie, how are you?
I am well, I was on last week when I wasn't supposed to be my question.
I am almost all in with this whole AI thing.
So I'm very interested in the IP side of AI.
Absolutely.
You mentioned last week and I asked the ladies, they were very helpful.
Would it make more sense for me to do the VIP or should I wait for the masterclass
that you mentioned about AI?
It depends on what you're doing with AI.
So when you say you're all in on AI, do you have a company that's running, that's
using AI right now?
So right now, all I'm doing is, um, learning prompt engineering and streaming
it and then like content and yeah.
Um, what, honestly, what I would do, I would do both.
Uh, and the reason why I would do both is because in VIP, you're going to be able
to answer, ask questions and get interaction.
Um, in the masterclass.
the masterclass is gonna be a lot of training,
like hardcore training, you know, and going deep.
And that there's, we're contemplating doing a VIP for that,
but I know the caliber of the people
that are gonna be there.
So if we do a lot of question and answers there,
it's gonna be like the wild west.
So I'm debating on how to do a VIP in the masterclass.
So what I would do for now is I would get into this one
and ask your questions directly, and I'll go into it.
The beauty of this one is that the IP side of it
is heavily covered.
So understanding why it's a copyright issue,
understanding how to get around the copyright issue,
understanding that there's a program
that's being used right now,
and a lot of influencers are pushing,
like literally right now an AI software platform
that creates logos, right?
They're pushing it hard.
What they don't tell you is that
there's no trademark search done.
And so everybody's using this platform
and they're going out there and they're,
all you do is you type specific words
that are associated with your company
and it spits out a logo.
They're grabbing a logo and they're running with companies.
And I'm going, oh my gosh, no, no, please no, please no.
So I'm like going into chat TPT,
like there's a group that Ray knows I'm in.
It's a Facebook group, has like hundreds of thousands,
if not over a million members.
And I went in there and I put in a comment,
it's called chat TPT something or other.
And I said, guys, please, I literally wrote,
please, please, please do a trademark search
for the logo that's rendered before you use it.
And somebody commented, what's a trademark search?
And I was like, oh my gosh, like guys, please,
like those are the people that obviously
should be in the masterclass, like, you know, so.
But in any case, I would get into VIP
and obviously I'll make sure that I answer
some of your questions, you know, here.
So you get the service that you need now,
instead of waiting until the end of August
when we're going to do like a masterclass
for like three hours straight and just hit AI, AI, AI.
So Ray, go ahead.
Oh yeah, Julie, go ahead.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Oh, it's my pleasure.
Ray, what'd you say?
I just want to pipe in real quickly.
If you guys are purchasing VIP right now,
you're going to be taken to a confirmation page.
And on that confirmation page,
there's actually a button to join the VIP session
and a link below as well with the passcode
to join that room.
And so when this, keep that tab open
because when this room closes,
then we'll, after a break, open up that other room.
So it's going to, we can't open it until this one's closed,
but you're going to want to be able to access it that way.
We got a few more minutes before it starts.
Jane, how are you?
What's up?
You have to unmute.
There you go.
Go ahead, my friend.
For the Canadians,
I know that you won't be able to walk us through
the trademark search or the copyright filing.
So-
What's your question?
You want to know whether it applies to Canada?
Yeah, so if we want to learn,
like anything pertaining to Canadians,
you know, you say everything else is pretty well the same,
but even for affiliation and for myself,
because there are certain things that are not,
you know, that is not applicable for Canadians, correct?
Yeah.
I mean, the majority of the,
the majority of the issues between the United States
and Canada are the same,
except Canada takes a lot longer on a lot of things.
Like a trademark application in the United States
takes nine months to a year.
In Canada, it takes three years.
As far as Canada goes, just so you guys know,
I practice law.
Well, I have to be careful.
I don't practice law.
I have agents in every country of the world.
I just am very familiar with the law
in most countries of the world.
This is a Canadian trademark office site.
This is where you actually do searches from.
You select the fields here.
You select the words here.
It's not difficult in any way, shape or form.
It's very similar to the US.
So I am familiar with how it works in different countries,
but I'm not, in VIP, I can show you what it looks like.
I'm not going to spend a lot of time
going over the Canadian trademark office website
when most of the people are there for the US.
However, if you want, I can absolutely show you
and give you some of the links on how to use.
A lot of the things.
again, are going to pertain to the,
they're almost exactly the same.
So as an example here for the Canadian site,
if you click the down button here,
it gives you goods, services, you know,
NIS classification, which is, these are all the same,
international registration number, registration number.
All of these are the same.
The trademark itself, the description.
Now there's certain ones that are different
like Vienna code, Vienna description.
So I wouldn't be able to go through that with you,
but the majority of stuff is the same.
Canada and the US are very similar
in a lot of things in the law.
There's certain things that are a little different,
but not a lot.
So it's your call if you want to do VIP as well.
But the beauty of it, again,
is that you get to ask questions.
You get to see, you get to interact
with the things that we're going to do.
We go a deeper dive.
But if you're going to ask Canada specific questions,
like, you know, Canadian law specific
and only Canadian law specific,
I don't know that the value,
I mean, it's definitely worth the $195 you would spend,
but still, I don't know that you're going to get
as much as you want,
if you're only interested in Canadian stuff.
Does anybody else have questions?
Erica, did you have a question?
No, okay.
Are you in VIP, Erica?
You're not?
I gotta unmute you.
There we go.
No, I was listening to the questions here.
Are you, you're running a company right now, right?
Not yet.
So you're building up a company?
Getting started.
Okay.
All right.
Ping me if you've got some specific issues
you want to talk about,
because I don't know why,
you're getting highlighted to me.
So just ping me.
And we'll see if we can figure stuff out for you,
because that happens when I'm out here.
Sometimes people get highlighted.
So, all right, everybody,
I got to jump into the other room,
because it's me 25.
Does anybody else have a question about VIP?
If not, I will see you in VIP.
All right, I'm shutting down here.
I will see you guys later.
All right, take care, everybody.