Whether or not you have used the term frequently used to describe one, you have no doubt heard of a Copyright Troll. To put it in simplistic terms, a Copyright…
We are proud to picture the fabulous artwork of Leigh Ann Agee in this blog entry. Leigh Ann is a Nashville-based artist and creator of the Girl In the Moon…
Do you hear that? D.J.s are dusting off their turntables…florists are snipping away at stems…wedding season is upon us. Soon, your mailbox will begin filling up with those telltale envelopes-within-envelopes. I…
Law.com recently posted an article in which Sarah Feingold, in-house counsel for the popular e-commerce site, Etsy, talked about her own creative background, the legal issues Etsy and its users face,…
Check out this post by intellectual-property blog PHOSITA. It seems as though football fever has recently encompassed more than just the playoffs: It’s NCAA versus NFL, as Texas A&M are…
I’ll be speaking on social-networking ethics this Wednesday, September 8, at the Americana Music Festival in downtown Nashville, if you want to join the conversation in person. In case you…
Blogging seems as innocent as jotting down your daily musings in a diary. But with blogging, 1) you’re revealing those musings to the world, and 2) you’re inviting the world…
How lucky we are to have the Internet nowadays to market our creative wares — whether our song or drawing or poem. But with this new marketing frontier comes a…
I was recently introduced to the world of design-based business owners when I wrote an article on copyright tips for the popular design blog Design*Sponge. What a nice bunch of…
As a writer of songs and books, I, too, have had that frustrating experience of coming up with what I think is the most brilliant, original idea in the world,…