Contracts, Copyrights, and Trademarks are the biggest issues digital media professionals are faced with as they try to build their brands and influence with corporate sponsors but often the topics they know the least about. However, utilizing your legal rights in these three areas could be the difference between blogging as a hobby and getting paid major dollars.
Friday I reviewed and revised a contract for a new client brokering a deal with a prominent online radio station for a show. In looking over the contract the first thing I mentioned to the client was that major details of the “who” and “what” were missing. As an attorney I want to know the who, what, and why answered in the first few lines of any contract.
Earlier this week Canadian makeup artist Samantha Ravndahltook to Reddit to ask what she should do since she discovered Lil Kim had not only been using her image to promote her upcoming album but had also placed a copyright notice on the image. (via Gawker)
