Does your website have: Google Analytics installed? A contact form? Comments enabled? A form to collect email addresses? Then you are collecting information about visitors to your website and should have a privacy policy. The goal is transparency I’m a big fan of keeping the public policy of laws in the back of my mind […]
Molly the Maker
Do you create and sell a physical product to your customers? Then this post collection will help do it on the legal up and up!
How to create terms of service for your website
Need to get your website ducks in a row? Play Website Policy Mad Libs and quickly get policies on your website Get your Mad Libs terms of service and privacy policy templates today so that you can have them up on your website tomorrow. Best of all these templates were updated in May 2018 so […]
Another reason a LLC might be right for you
Most of the time when people call my law firm they are calling because they are in a jam. While I prefer to work with clients to prevent those jams from occurring in the first place, I have come to accept the fact that most of you only want to talk to a lawyer when […]
A model release: helping you avoid legal issues
Your look book shoot date is fast approaching. You’ve spent months planning. You’ve found and rented the perfect space. Photographers, models, and stylists are booked. Your product is prepped and made. All supporting clothing and accessories have been located. Your to-do list starts to look manageable. You begin to think you might get it all […]
Confused about fair use? This visual process makes it easier
If you’ve ever dug into copyright issues, I’m sure that you’ve heard of the term fair use. And I’m sure if you started to research it, you left that research session with a spinning head and more confused than when you began. This is because fair use is one of the most complicated copyright topics. […]
What Copyright Management Information is and why you should care about it
In Copyright Basics, I quickly mentioned that if you placed a copyright notice on a digital file and it was removed, that you might have an additional reason to sue your infringer. Today, I want to dive into this law and how it can help you protect and enforce your copyrights. What is Copyright Management […]
Copyright Basics
We are going to start off by making sure we are all on the same page about some key aspects of copyright laws. Understanding these underlying principles will be a huge help as we move through the month. We’ve got a lot to cover, so let’s jump in. Why do copyright laws exist? One of […]
Who took this photo? How to perform a reverse image search
So you don’t get a nasty letter, you need to know who created that blog post or image so you can ask permission and give credit where credit is due. When you are trying to search backwards to find the source, these searches are called “reverse searches.” Text based reverse searches are pretty darn easy. You can […]
Can I use this photo? How not to get a nasty letter (or worse)
Figuring out ways to leverage one piece of artwork into multiple sources of income is an issue for every creative business. For visual artists, this becomes even more difficult in our right-click Internet society. The reality is that the only way to prevent your images from being posted without your permission is to not post […]
Being paid to day-dream OR how to think like a lawyer
Overwhelmed by all the legal to-dos? Click here to get a free legal tip each week in your inbox from your friendly legal eagle. I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I spend a big chunk of my day day-dreaming. How to “think like a lawyer” The biggest skill that you learn […]