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  • Best practices for avoiding defamation on social media
  • Guide for defendants in mass copyright lawsuits (Bit Torrent Filesharing cases)
  • Guide to online publishing liability immunity under the Communications Decency Act Section 230
  • Legal guide to video releases & the use and publication of Audio and Video Recordings
  • Legal and How-to Guides for Independent Creators, Internet Users, nonprofits, and small businesses
  • Best Practices for Creative Commons attributions - how to attribute works you reuse under a Creative Commons license
  • Field Guide to Secret Audio and Video Recordings
  • Essential Free and Open Source Software Toolkit
  • A citizen's legal guide to using Creative Commons licenses
  • A citizen's legal guide to fair use in copyright law

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Free IP 101 Email Course| Learn about the IP laws that can protect your creative business
 

bookIn our new book, we focus on issues you may encounter from the inception of your business to the moment (that hopefully doesn’t happen) you get a nasty lawyer letter for the first time.

You’ll learn how to form your business, protect your intellectual property, and avoid problems when launching your project. Taking a few simple steps upfront to protect your business or project can save time and money down the road. Don't Panic has also been used in undergraduate & graduate classes nationwide to teach business and legal concepts to non-lawyers. Professors can request a FREE evaluation copy

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FINALLY, CLEAR ANSWERS FOR LEGAL AND BUSINESS QUESTIONS WRITTEN BY LAWYERS AND DESIGNED FOR CREATIVES

After 10 years of advising creators and entrepreneurs, we’ve kept hearing about the same unsolved issue from our clients...

 

Creatives want to learn the legal and business rules they need to grow and protect their businesses. BUT they don’t have the resources to purchase 10 different books, read 100 different conflicting blog posts written by non-lawyers, and then spend $1,000 hiring an expensive lawyer to summarize them all before they’re understandable and usable.

That’s why we‘ve created our Resource Library. These checklists, best practice guides, and videos are made specifically for creative entrepreneurs who want the right strategies -- laid out in the right order -- to legally protect and thoughtfully grow their businesses.

  • We realized there needs to be an affordable and accurate place to find best practice guides written by lawyers but designed to be implemented by creators.
     
  • We are supporting the Library with ongoing updates -- which means you get new, actionable content for as long as you remain a member.
     
  • You can directly suggest new additions for the topics we’ll add. YOU as members, dictate what is added to the library based on what YOU need the most.
     

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