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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...
5 Steps to Master Copyright Licensing To Grow Your Revenue Streams As A Creative
Are you leaving money on the table by selling your copyrights instead of renting them? If so, you’re not alone, but we will change that. Many creative entrepreneurs unknowingly sell their copyrights for far less...
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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,...
On Craft Beer Trademark Disputes
Craft beer is awesome, but a rising tide of craft beer trademark disputes is not nearly as awesome. With the happy proliferation of new breweries has come a little bit of a proliferation of trademark disputes over the names of beers and breweries. That’s enough to...
Can You Copyright Street Art?
People want to know whether or not you can copyright street art, and the answer is a resounding: “sure, why not?”. The topic seems to come up a great deal lately because companies seem to be making a habit of using street art to burnish their own brands and in an...