Posted on February 8, 2010 by Shannon DeRouselle.
Category: Employees, Service Providers
You may have been alerted about the importance of correctly classifying a person performing services for a business as an “employee” or an “independent contractor.” Since most startups and small businesses are now in full cash-preservation mode (even more so than usual), a discussion about the proper classification of workers is timely and may help [...]
Posted on January 14, 2010 by Shannon DeRouselle.
Category: Employees, Intellectual Property, Service Providers
A few months ago, the multi-billion dollar legal dispute between eBay and the founders of Skype highlighted a legal axiom that is overlooked by small companies all too often: “Own thine intellectual property.”
eBay had purchased Skype for billions but, for some unspoken business reason, did not acquire absolute rights to a core component of the [...]