Your employee Allison returned from a conference and has developed an amazing new sales pitch. When you ask her how she came up with it, she tells you that she is repeating almost verbatim a sample pitch she heard at one of the presentations at the conference. Should you reprimand Allison?

Question

a. no, because a speech can't be copyrighted

b. maybe, if the speech was someone else's intellectual property

c. maybe, depending on how many people heard that same sample pitch

d. no, because when asked, she told you where she got the idea from

Answer 1

b. maybe, if the speech was someone else's intellectual property

Reprimanding Allison may be necessary if the pitch qualifies as someone else's intellectual property and she has not received permission to use it or credited the original source adequately. It's essential to understand the context and any potential implications of using someone else's work verbatim.