Intellectual property

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Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• explain that software, data, and content are protected by intellectual property rights
• recognise when a contract or project raises ownership questions

2. Working

You can:

• check intellectual property clauses in routine agreements
• keep records of licences and registered rights
• explain the main open source licence types and their conditions

3. Practitioner

You can:

• advise on who owns software, data, and content made by staff, suppliers, and partners
• draft licences and intellectual property terms, including open source release of the organisation's code
• advise on commercial use of the organisation's data and software, and on sharing benefits

4. Expert

You can:

• set the organisation's intellectual property and open source policy
• lead on commercialisation and partnerships involving the organisation's data and software
• resolve significant intellectual property disputes

Closest ESCO skills

• intellectual property law (exact match)
• copyright legislation (narrow match)

Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.

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