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Setting Boundaries With Clients: Powerful Scripts, Systems, and Success Strategies
Setting boundaries with clients is one of the most powerful ways to protect your energy, time, and business. If you’ve ever felt drained, disrespected, or unsure how to refuse a client request, you’re not alone...
AI & Copyright: What Creators Need to Know Right Now
AI is writing books, composing music, and designing logos. It’s also raising many legal questions. This new creative frontier is exciting, but it’s also confusing. Creatives are navigating uncertainty around ownership, contracts, and what the...
How To Run Your LLC or Corporation Without Drama or Legal Hassles
Creative entrepreneurs who don’t want to play small eventually take the step to form an LLC or corporation. But many of them don’t know what to do next. That causes big headaches and stress because...
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When Is The Right Time To Present A Contract To A Client?
Getting a contract signed can be one of the more intimidating aspects of working with clients. You have established a good relationship, a good rapport, and a common vision. You’re both ready to work. Who wants to drag the whole thing down with a contract? I find...
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...
