Do you want that freelancer you hired online to suddenly be able to claim ownership over your business’s intellectual property? If you’re like most business owners, the answer to that is a hard no. To grow your creative business without burnout, you must grow your...
If you don’t understand contacts, you’re aleady losing money and making your business way more stressful than it has to be. Here’s what we mean: Simply put, contracts align your vision with your customers and collaborators. At their most potent, contracts...
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, payments, and admin tasks that eat away at...
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 disputes, ambiguity,...
DIY legal research has a hidden cost; too many creative entrepreneurs have been duped into paying that cost. Picture this: A talented artist is ready to launch their business. They spend hours sifting through Google, ChatGPT chats, forums, and social media, hoping to...
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 contracts, along with 5 shady behaviors that should...
