Recently we sent members of our Creators’ Legal Program an in-depth email about proactive law. Proactive law is the opposite of reactive law; the reason why it is important is because by being proactive, you can actually avoid expensive legal problems before they...
A good freelance service contract is central to any creative professional building a service business or agency. Freelancers use a freelance service contract to set up a good relationship with their clients and to ensure that things go as closely according to plan as...
The Creative Business Legal Roadmap is now available to members of the Creators’ Legal Program. This checklist of key legal issues gives you a high-level view of the types of things that any creative business owner will want to consider in starting, running and...
In work with creative businesses, I have witnessed the California non-compete trap many times. Here is what I am talking about: you work for a California company and that company has you sign an employment agreement that contains a non-compete clause. A few years...
A trademark licensing agreement is a contract between the owner of the trademark (the licensor) and the person to whom the trademark owner wants to license their mark to produce something (the licensee). A trademark licensing agreement clarifies what the licensee can...
Solid contracts provide a foundation upon which to grow a creative business. And contracts that everyone can understand are even better. That’s why members of the Creators’ Legal Program now have access to a concise and readable Creative Services Agreement. This is an...
