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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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Strategies for Legal Protection of Intellectual Property
Last night I was talking to a friend, who also happens to be a designer launching her own venture – she wanted to know more about legal protection of intellectual property. It’s a topic that I have talked about on this blog in a few other posts, but I wanted to share...
To Stop A Cybersquatter
There are a few ways to stop a cybersquatter – a cybersquatter being a person who has illegally purchased a domain name associated with your brand or trademark in order to sell it to you for a high price. One popular method of stopping cybersquatters is to use ICANN’s...
Branding and Trademark Law
Branding and trademark law – as you can probably imagine – have a tight association. Trademark law generally serves to protect brands. But that begs the question: what are brands and how does trademark law protect them? When people think of brands, they often think...
Fundamentals of the Artist Gallery Contract
What goes into the artist gallery contract that will govern the relationship between an artist and that artist’s dealer? There are many things, but there will always be a set of fundamentals that should be included in every artist gallery contract. Keep in mind, also,...
