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Hiring Freelancers: How To Avoid Legal Pitfalls and Grow Your Business While Focusing on Being Creative
Do you want that freelancer you hired online to suddenly be able to claim ownership over your business’s intellectual property? If you’re like most business owners, the answer to that is a hard no. To...
Go From Creator to Founder: Build Systems and Structures That Set You Free
If you spend more time on emails and invoices than on creative work, your business is running you—let’s fix that. Most creatives launch their businesses with passion and talent but quickly get overwhelmed by contracts,...
The California Freelance Worker Protection Act: How Businesses and Freelancers Can Use It To Collaborate Powerfully
California’s Freelance Worker Protection Act (FWPA) empowers businesses and freelancers to collaborate better. For years, we’ve worked with freelancers and the businesses that hire them and seen how the old way of working led to...
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Hip Hop Producers on the Art and Reality of Sampling
Anyone who has even a passing familiarity with music of the last thirty or forty years understands that sampling remains a big part of the creative process for many musicians. The art of taking something old and turning it into something new and innovative has...
The Trademark Spectrum of Distinctiveness
Anyone working with trademarks will come across the spectrum of distinctiveness. This chromatic-sounding concept will be critical in any effort to register and protect brands and understanding how it works will make it easier to choose a brand name that can get the...
Bringing Your Own Legal Documents Doesn’t Save Money
From time to time I am approached by someone who comes to my office with a legal document that he or she got from a friend or downloaded from the Internet. Sometimes they are the fruits of a Google search and sometimes they are documents purchased from a vendor....
Legal Ethics and Technology
Legal technology succeeds or fails because of legal ethics. Legal ethics are the rules that all lawyers must follow or face penalties. Because of this, lawyers will hesitate to use technologies where there are doubts about how well those technologies comply with the...
