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Setting Boundaries With Clients: Powerful Scripts, Systems, and Success Strategies
Setting boundaries with clients is one of the most powerful ways to protect your energy, time, and business. If you’ve ever felt drained, disrespected, or unsure how to refuse a client request, you’re not alone...
AI & Copyright: What Creators Need to Know Right Now
AI is writing books, composing music, and designing logos. It’s also raising many legal questions. This new creative frontier is exciting, but it’s also confusing. Creatives are navigating uncertainty around ownership, contracts, and what the...
How To Run Your LLC or Corporation Without Drama or Legal Hassles
Creative entrepreneurs who don’t want to play small eventually take the step to form an LLC or corporation. But many of them don’t know what to do next. That causes big headaches and stress because...
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The Creators’ Legal Program is a subscription-based legal plan tailored to the needs of creative businesses. the Creators’ Legal Program provides members with on-demand access to attorney advice and guidance on copyrights, trademarks, contracts and general business...
Notes on Work for Exposure Contract
Why a work for exposure contract? A while back I was thinking about how designers and other creative professionals can deal with a common situation: a potential client wants you to work for them for free in exchange for them giving you exposure, which presumably leads...
The Difference Between DBA and Trademark
There is a difference between DBA and trademark. Although the two things seem similar – they both deal with the name of a business – the law treats them differently and it is important to separate the concept of a DBA from the concept of a trademark. On more than one...
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...
