Kudos to Amanda Hocking! We love seeing creative professionals who can support themselves well through their creative capacity. Let's hope she has stellar legal representation!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Remain Creative's Lisa M. Willis: at Parsons Lectures today!
Lisa M. Willis will deliver a lecture on TRADEMARKS today at the Parsons School of Design.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Idea Theft
Last week I went to a "bootcamp" for lawyers and artists of all kinds. The gist of the whole thing was for all to talk about issues where law and the business of being an artist intersect. Just the kind of topics we at Remain Creative like to munch up for snacks.
Except.
This wasn't incredibly helpful. Sigh. What, you may ask, do I mean?
Well, there was a session on the need to make a digital platform -- using the internet as DIY marketing and building a base. But the person presenting did little more than list great social media platforms. Meanwhile a few of the Creative Professionals expressed a level of discomfort with things as commonplace as Facebook, because, as they couched it, they were afraid of losing their "privacy."
I admit, that reason in and of itself is somewhat annoying. (Just don't share what you don't want to share, right?) But I seriously thought their discomfort was due more to an uneasiness with losing the claim to their creative ideas. And I can totally understand that.
I find that this post really does a great job of addressing the real and boogey monster of Idea Theft.
Except.
This wasn't incredibly helpful. Sigh. What, you may ask, do I mean?
Well, there was a session on the need to make a digital platform -- using the internet as DIY marketing and building a base. But the person presenting did little more than list great social media platforms. Meanwhile a few of the Creative Professionals expressed a level of discomfort with things as commonplace as Facebook, because, as they couched it, they were afraid of losing their "privacy."
I admit, that reason in and of itself is somewhat annoying. (Just don't share what you don't want to share, right?) But I seriously thought their discomfort was due more to an uneasiness with losing the claim to their creative ideas. And I can totally understand that.
I find that this post really does a great job of addressing the real and boogey monster of Idea Theft.
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| http://www.lawlawlandblog.com/2011/03/qa_how_do_i_protect_myself_fro.html#more |
Wisconsin and you
For someone who cares about an individual's rights and capacity to come to any negotiating table with the ability to represent his/her interest, one good thing that has come from the mess in Wisconsin is that more people are thinking about what the term COLLECTIVE BARGAINING means.
Of course, I also hope that more people also think about level playing fields, and power dynamics.
And most importantly, I hope that folks think less about what public employees have and more about what most workers have LOST -- in terms of health and insurance benefits, and the capacity to work hard and put away enough financial resources to support you once you can't work anymore.
Of course, I also hope that more people also think about level playing fields, and power dynamics.
And most importantly, I hope that folks think less about what public employees have and more about what most workers have LOST -- in terms of health and insurance benefits, and the capacity to work hard and put away enough financial resources to support you once you can't work anymore.
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