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Intellectual Property Protection

Copyrights

  • Basic Copyright Law – What can be protected,
    why, and how?
  • Understanding the "Work for Hire" doctrine
  • Collaborative works issues
  • Copyright renewal and transfer issues

Trademarks

  • Do you own your name?
  • State and federal trademark registration
  • Trademark searches

Small Business Organization

  • Does your business legally exist?
  • What are the advantages and liabilities to formal organization?
  • What form of organization is right for you?
  • How do you do it?

Literature Law

Publishing Contracts

  • What’s standard and what’s fair
  • What to watch out for
  • What can and cannot (usually) be negotiated

Royalty advances and collection issues

  • Serialization Issues
  • Book Tours
  • Publicity Rights and the Right to Privacy

Graphic Arts Law

Paintings, sculptures, and photography

  • Unique Copyright Issues for the Graphic Arts
  • Licensing Agreements for Prints or Copies

Internet Law

Copyrights in Cyberspace

  • Frames and Web Page Links
  • Web Page Development and Protection
  • Sound Sampling Licensing

Movie and Film Law

  • Soundtrack Licensing
  • Film Financing Agreements
  • Actor Contracts

Music Law

Performance Contracts

  • What are they?
  • Do you need them?
  • How do you create one?
  • What if they (or you) break one?

Recording Contracts

  • How to read one
  • What to watch out for
  • What can and cannot be (usually) negotiated

Signing With a Label

  • How to do it
  • "Major", "Minor" and "Independent" labels
  • Product Distribution Issues
  • Tour Support

Music Publishing

  • Publishing Agreements
    • What’s standard and what’s fair?
  • Do you really have to give up publishing rights?
  • Self Publishing
    • When does it makes sense?
    • How it’s done

Music Licensing Agreements

  • What you need to know before you record
    your favorite cover
  • What you need to know before someone else
    records your song

ASCAP - BMI - SESAC

  • Making them work to your best advantage
  • How to collect your royalties

Patents Law

  • I have recently passed the patents bar and will soon be licensed to practice patents law

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  • Discounts for AFM members
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