Songwriters: Protect Your Work
This songwriters guide covers copyright basics, registration with the U.S. Copyright Office, and using split sheets to secure musical creations. It also provides key strategies for protecting your work and ensuring proper ownership in the music industry.
Songwriters: Monetize Your Work
This Koslyn Law guide outlines strategies for songwriters to monetize their work through copyright, licensing, and royalties. It details essential legal steps for securing music income.
How to Protect Your Ideas
Ideas cannot be protected, but their expression can be. To safeguard ideas, it’s important to establish an agreement with payment expectations, supported by documentation like NDAs. Clear submission terms are crucial for protecting intellectual property.
eCo Copyright Registration
This Koslyn Law guide offers a step-by-step tutorial for using the U.S. Copyright Office eCO system to register creative works online.
How to Draft a Contract
Draft contracts for litigation success by using precise terms, defining clear breach triggers, and including strong dispute resolution and fee-shifting clauses. This guide emphasizes proactive planning for enforceability and simpler legal disputes.
How to Do Business with a Minor in California
In California, contracts with minors require judicial approval to prevent disaffirmation and must comply with the Coogan Law to protect earnings, per legal experts. A contract with a minor is a little more complicated than a contract with an adult.
Trade Dress
Trademark infringement centers on the “likelihood of confusion.” Trade dress includes a team’s colors, fonts, and mascots, and any change that confuses consumers is considered infringement.
Copyrights and Trademarks
Copyrights and trademarks are valuable forms of Intellectual Property that you own the minute you create and start using them.
Trademark Infringment
Trademark infringement occurs when a mark creates consumer confusion, and even slight differences can lead to liability. The general rule is that trademarks must not look alike, sound alike, or have similar meanings—even in foreign languages.
Writers Protect Your Work
Film, TV, Video, Radio, Podcast, Multimedia Writers, Protect Your Work: Protect IP via WGAW/Copyright filings, notices, and Collaboration Agreements. Most importantly, use an attorney for business to signal your work is protected.