Legal and policy
Confidentiality and IP statement
Status: placeholder pending legal drafting. The section below states what this policy is required to cover, not the policy itself. Publishing final wording is a pre-launch gate, owner: Counsel (pre-launch).
What this policy will state
- Who owns the intellectual property created during a cohort's work on a partner problem, and what rights, if any, a participant retains in their own contribution.
- What a participant may and may not display publicly from their output, including in a portfolio or to a prospective employer, and under what conditions.
- How partner-confidential material is separated from what a participant may reference or show, so that the portfolio artefact does not itself expose confidential information.
- The anonymisation process applied to a problem before a cohort begins work on it.
- How the two-tier disclosure standard (anonymised public tier, and named tier requiring written partner approval) governs what is published about an engagement, and by whom the named tier is approved.
This statement is a precondition for the portfolio artefact proposition described on how it works. It is drafted alongside the partner agreement template so the two do not conflict.