BUSINESS LAW TIP: COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS As a creative or a business entrepreneur, you must protect your mental labor and creations. The area of law that offers this type of protection is known as Intellectual Property, and this consists of Copyrights and Trademarks. Copyrights and trademarks are completely different in terms of the protection they …
Do You Want To Protect Your Creative Works? Copyright is intellectual property which protects the right to “copy”. The owner of a copyrighted work has the exclusive legal right to copy, use, & permit others to use the work. In other words, copyright is the exclusive legal right given to an originator or an assignee …
Who Is The Copyright Owner? Copyright law states that the creator of a work is its author. This is true, however there are exceptions. The first exception is employment relationships. If the creator is an employee working within the course and scope of employment, then consider the employer is the author of the creative work. …
Brief History of Copyright Many entertainment and business professionals deal mostly with copyright law. The word “copy-right” essentially means the right to copy. Originally, it was a right only held by authors and it only covered copying. Copyright was developed from the U.S. Constitution which states: “The Congress shall have the power to promote the …
Life Story Agreements QUESTION: If I want to talk about John Kennedy having Marilyn Monroe as a mistress, or talk about what life in my family was like growing up, don’t I have a right to do that? (Rights other people have to privacy, to control the exploitation of their name, to defend against libel …
QUESTION: If I want to tell a true story, what should I do first, second, third? Legal requirements to tell true life stories. (Consult with an experienced entertainment Attorney before you write the story if you are the writer and before you produce the project if they are a producer. Errors and Omissions Insurance will …
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