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5 Fixable Mindset Mistakes Creative Entrepreneurs Make That Kill Their Businesses
What if you could completely sidestep the biggest mindset mistakes that destroy many creative businesses? We’ve been lawyers for creative entrepreneurs for over a decade and have seen inside hundreds of innovative businesses. Our team...
Copyright Strategy Guide for Creatives [Updated 2024]
We wrote this copyright strategy guide for creatives who want to supercharge their creative business by understanding copyright law. Every creative is in the copyright game, but too many don’t know the basics of copyright...
Production Company Master Guide
Creatives involved in film, television, and video game production have long used production companies to build a brand, protect their assets, and work on more significant projects. In this master guide, we explore how any...
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Three Legal Myths That Destroy Creative Businesses
Understanding the law makes for better and more robust creative businesses. As soon as your creative project or service enters the wider world, and enters the wider world as part of commerce, law comes into play in a giant way. Many creative businesses with otherwise...
Re: Open Internet Proposed Rules
I wrote a public comment to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Wheeler re the Open Internet Proposed Rules in honor of Internet Slowdown Day. The public is invited to offer their comments on the FCC site: Dear Chairman Wheeler: I write to you as a concerned...
Don’t Be Unconstitutional Against EDM
EDM (stands for “Electronic Dance Music”, which makes about as much sense as calling anything with a guitar in it GDM, but the media gods have spoken…) is the hair metal of the electronic music kingdom. Some of it’s sublime, but it can quickly go over-the-top. It’s...
Copyright Criminals
The documentary “Copyright Criminals” came out in 2009 and explores the world of sampling – taking pieces of sound from one work and incorporating that sound into another work. If you listen to most modern music, there is some aspect of sampling in it. I found that...
