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5 Fixable Mindset Mistakes Creative Entrepreneurs Make That Kill Their Businesses
What if you could completely sidestep the biggest mindset mistakes that destroy many creative businesses? We’ve been lawyers for creative entrepreneurs for over a decade and have seen inside hundreds of innovative businesses. Our team...
Copyright Strategy Guide for Creatives [Updated 2024]
We wrote this copyright strategy guide for creatives who want to supercharge their creative business by understanding copyright law. Every creative is in the copyright game, but too many don’t know the basics of copyright...
Production Company Master Guide
Creatives involved in film, television, and video game production have long used production companies to build a brand, protect their assets, and work on more significant projects. In this master guide, we explore how any...
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California Automatic Renewal Law Could Make You Give All Your Money Back To Your Customers
Imagine this: you have built a successful business based on subscriptions (like many startups and business), but now you are sued under the California automatic renewal law. Never heard of it? You’re not alone, and it’s a killer. Among other penalties, you could be...
Copyright Protection for Useful Articles
Many creative businesses seek copyright protection for useful articles. By “useful articles”, we are talking about things like: clothes, furniture, candlesticks, baseball bats, blenders, doors, etc. But people are often dismayed to find out that useful articles are...
Patent License Agreements: Why and How
It’s not unlikely that an inventor will eventually come across the topic of patent license agreements. Patent license agreements are commonly used to help develop and commercialize patented items and can be a great source of revenue for the patent owner, spurring...
Startups and Lawsuits
Venture capitalist Mark Suster recently wrote a great post on startups and lawsuits (and the logic can apply to businesses that aren’t traditionally considered “startups”) and since thrust of his post seems to be about how to keep startups out of court, I wanted to...