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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...
Contract Red Flags and Shady Contract Behaviors – So Creators Can Avoid Getting Burned and Grow More Sustainably
Contracts support all successful collaborations, but red flags can indicate trouble ahead. We want creatives to focus on creating without dealing with lousy contract situations. So we offer 6 red flags that we see in...
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Three Reasons Your Trademark Application Will Be Rejected
Smart brand owners want to register their trademarks at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Doing so gives them a great deal of protection to ensure that someone else will not encroach upon their distinctive brand. However, before committing to...
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...