[Joel_Mckay]

Unless you are consulting local IP and corporate lawyers, than you are almost certainly making mistakes.

There are a few areas one really needs to watch:

1. Dependent contractor status: Unless contracts state otherwise, a business could be hit with a massive tax bill at year end for things like pension contributions for a disgruntled contractor.

2. Comprehensive copyright transfer agreements that prevent edge-cases like disgruntled family suing your firm for ownership after someone passes.

3. Implicit/Explicit ownership of IP generated at/outside a firm depends on contract signing location, and on the nature of external projects. In some places a company can sue workers for ownership of whatever they build outside company hours unless explicitly given an exemption in the contract.

4. You don't necessarily own something just because you paid somebody outside your jurisdictional context. This is a deep copyright/trademark/patent rabbit-hole, and the answer is always "it depends"...

I am not saying you are necessarily exposing people to potential liabilities, but one should at least have legal folks take a cursory glance at your business plan for the service locations.

Best of luck =)