Why Your Email List Can Get You in Legal Trouble
One of the best ways to spread awareness about your brand, products, and services is through a dedicated mailing list of subscribers. What you may not realize is that the way you are collecting emails and information from your subscribers could get you in big legal trouble.
In case you haven't read the small print here is what you need to know before you start an email list.
Quote of the Day: Know the Difference
LEGALLY PROTECT YOUR BRAND..WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK
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.
Tired of Hiding....A Candid Discussion on Mental Health and Suicide
Three Things to Look for in Any Contract
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.
3 Legal Lessons Lil Kim is Teaching Creatives
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)
Why the Remaining Freddie Gray Officers Don't Want to Face a Jury
In May Officer Edward Nero was acquitted of all charges and late last year Officer William Porter's case ended in a mistrial after a hung jury failed to make a decision. What these cases tell us are two very clear facts.
First, the acquittal of Officer Nero, the bicycle cop who only assisted in the arrest of Gray, tells us that the evidence clearly shows Gray did not die as a result of injuries sustained in the actual arrest.
Second, the hung jury in the case of Officer Porter shows that the evidence was NOT clear enough regarding what occurred in the actual transport of Gray that lead to his death.
So whether it was Porter's failure to adequately buckle Gray in the transport van as called for in the protocol or Goodson's failure to stop and get care when Gray is reported to have said "I can't breathe" in the back of the van it is unclear who is at fault.
The Terrifying Parts of NC HB2 They Don't Want You to Notice
So not only is HB2 blatantly discriminatory to the Transgender community but it also blatantly tears at the very fabric of American democracy. If the will of voters can be overturned at the whim of those at the highest levels of power then what purpose will local elections serve? If state legislatures provide no protections to those employed by the private enterprises that bring millions of dollars to their states then what incentive will businesses have to do right? What incentive will talent have to take jobs in states like North Carolina?
Why the White Working Class Will Turn the 2016 Election on its Head
The 2016 democratic party candidates desperately need to turn their attention to the millennial and white working class vote in order to have a serious chance at taking the general election. With numbers showing voters under age thirty making the difference between whether key battle states will be red or blue, a candidate’s ability to mobilize voters from these groups will literally turn the election on its head.