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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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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...
I Am Presenting At Wordcamp LAX 2014
I will be presenting at Wordcamp LAX on September 6 at 2pm. My talk will be tentatively titled: “How Not To Get Sued As A Blogger”. That’s what I will be talking about: the things that can get you in legal hot water if you are running a blog or website. It will be...
Monkey Selfie and the Court of Public Opinion
One of the things that strikes me most about the “monkey selfie” dustup involving Wikimedia and photographer David Slater is that much of the discussion seems to be about people’s opinion of who should own the selfie, rather than the law. We all have opinions, but in...
