If you are new to design or development and you are looking for help on managing intellectually property rights with your projects then I have a couple of great suggestions on some e-books offered by Ross Kimbarovsky of Crowdspring.com.. Besides Crowdspring.com being a great resource for picking up new work for hire projects for both designers, developers, and project folks (they are so cool people like Crispin-Porter-Bogusky are now using them to find talent on a limited basis).

Anyway check out Ross’ great free E-books:

Contracts For Software Developers Who Hate Contracts

Contracts For Designers Who Hate Contracts

They are extremely helpful for designers and developers who are in start-up mode and are looking intellectual property agreements.

While you are at it, check out crowdspring.com itself. You’ll find a lot of designers there and a lot of projects needing designers. If you are a project needing a designer you might check them out as well..