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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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Why What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You
I am doing a series on work for hire agreements, as they are something that creative professionals seem to have many questions about. In that series, I will be breaking down some of the law and hopefully make the issue clearer. This post serves a slight aside to...
Some Answers About Work For Hire Agreements, Part I
Lots of creative professionals have clients who ask them to sign “work for hire” agreements that presumably transfer all rights under copyright law to the client. This request does seem to provoke anxiety, and I imagine that much of the anxiety comes because it is not...
How Bitcoin Can Improve Art Authentication and Provenance
Lately, I have been doing a good deal of work with two topics that initially do not seem connected: Bitcoin and art authentication. Bitcoin is a virtual currency, and art authentication serves to demonstrate a chain of title of artworks in order to establish market...
How Professional Photographers Protect Their Images From Online Infringement
Last week, the New Yorker published an article entitled “Taking Pictures: A Way for Photographers to Protect Their Work”. It chronicles the methods that one particular photographer, Yunghi Kim, protects her work. She uses a variety of techniques that would be helpful...
