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Author: Lee Morin

The Right of Publicity and The Right of Privacy

The Right of Publicity and The Right of Privacy

As a creative professional, your work is not just a product; it’s your intellectual property, your art, and your livelihood. Protecting your creative assets is essential, and this goes beyond copyrights and trademarks. The thing is, there’s one crucial area of the law that often gets overlooked but can make

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The Importance of Contracts for Your Creative Business

The Importance of Contracts for Your Creative Business

In the entertainment world, most business is conducted using contracts — from production to advertising, they all need adequate contracts to conduct their affairs. But what about in the art world? Creatives such as graphic designers, editors, writers, actors, etc., need a work order contract in order to accept jobs

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How to Protect Your Creative Content with Copyright Law

How to Protect Your Creative Content with Copyright Law

As an independent business owner, your original content creations are unique and an extended expression of your talent and passion. However, in the vast world of creativity, there are both admirers and those with ill intent who may try to take credit for your hard work without asking for permission.

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Copyright: An Origin Story In a Digital Era

Copyright: An Origin Story In a Digital Era

World Book & Copyright Day takes place on April 23 annually, 3 days prior to World Intellectual Property Day on April 26th.  It is worth noting that books, whether printed or digitally published, contain text which is protected under copyright. If those books also contain illustrations, those drawings are also

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Our French-American Heritage

July 14th is La Fête Nationale for France, also known more colloquially in English as Bastille Day. It is the national day of celebration (literally translated from French) because it is the day that is recorded in French history as the day when the people of France rose up in

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Celebrating 10 Years: My Small Business Journey

Celebrating 10 Years: My Small Business Journey

I have been a small business owner for ten years – 10 years! It sounds so surreal to even say it out loud. Maybe it is because as a one-woman shop, I never allow myself to stop long enough to think about how much it has done, how many we

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Employment Agreements

Employment Agreements: Independent Contractors, Employers/Employees

Independent contractor agreements are pretty important right now because in 2022, the Department of Labor proposed a rule that would change how we classify independent contractors.  This will alter the way we create contracts and will change the circumstances that are facing lots of small businesses using independent contractors currently

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When Girls Use a Masculine Name in Business

When Girls Use a Masculine Name in Business

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.” – “Romeo and Juliet,” William Shakespeare   When Juliet utters these words to her Romeo, it is because she is questioning naming conventions. I did the same as I sat in the

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Legal Status, Tax Status, & Contracts 101

Legal Status, Tax Status, & Contracts 101

This year we’ve been talking about business entities. So far we’ve covered sole proprietorships, and registered entities like limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and corporations.  A question that pops up frequently in our small business practice is the distinction between tax status and legal status. Let’s dive in. What’s a

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