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The Craft Artist's Legal Guide: Protect Your Work, Save on Taxes, Maximize Profits
by Stim, RichardISBN13:
9781413312126
ISBN10:
1413312128
Format:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
6/5/2010
Publisher(s):
NOLO
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Summary
Your work is your passion, but often it's not easy making your passion pay. The Craft Artist's Legal Guide is the crafter's bible when it comes to making a craft business work. It gives you the legal and practical information you need to: * price and sell material, online and off; * get a design patent; * choose the right studio and deal with leases; * find low cost and free ways of promoting the business online; * hire workers and sales reps; * complete and file required business forms; * protect copyright, patents and trade dress; * save on taxes and preserve income. The Craft Artist's Legal Guide also includes engaging excerpts from interview with over a dozen crafts artists about the business and legal issues every artist is likely to encounter.
Author Biography
Richard Stim is an attorney who has represented crafts and visual artists and is the author of several books, including Music Law and Running a Side Business. He has no crafts skills, but he likes to shop at etsy.com.
Table of Contents
| Your Legal Companion | p. 1 |
| Pricing and Selling | p. 3 |
| The Pricing Dilemma: How Much Do You Charge? | p. 5 |
| Selling Wholesale | p. 12 |
| Selling Retail | p. 15 |
| Selling at Crafts Shows | p. 22 |
| Selling on Consignment | p. 24 |
| Custom Orders | p. 39 |
| Shipping and Delays | p. 44 |
| Returns and Refunds | p. 44 |
| Ten Tips for Collecting Past-Due Accounts | p. 45 |
| Selling and Buying Outside the U.S | p. 53 |
| Your Studio | p. 55 |
| Working From Home | p. 57 |
| Finding the Right Space at the Right Price | p. 60 |
| Studio Safety | p. 69 |
| Going Online | p. 73 |
| Where Do You Start? | p. 75 |
| Free Stuff | p. 76 |
| Invoice Customers and Get Paid Online | p. 80 |
| Battle of the Community Stores: Etsy vs. eBay | p. 81 |
| Earn Money With Google Adsense | p. 83 |
| The (Very) Basics of Driving Traffic to Your Crafts Site | p. 83 |
| How to Build a Website in 24 Hours | p. 86 |
| Basic Legal Rules When Going Online | p. 88 |
| Hiring Workers and Sales Reps | p. 91 |
| Employee vs. Independent Contractor-What's the Difference? | p. 93 |
| Ten Tips When Hiring Family Members | p. 100 |
| Statutory Employees | p. 103 |
| Firing Workers | p. 105 |
| Works Made for Hire | p. 106 |
| When Workers Learn Your Crafts Secrets | p. 116 |
| Hiring Sales Reps | p. 121 |
| Business Forms & Legal Liability | p. 133 |
| Personal Liability: What Is It? | p. 134 |
| The Business Entity as Shield | p. 135 |
| Sole Proprietorship | p. 136 |
| Partnership | p. 138 |
| LLC vs. Corporation-What's the Difference? | p. 148 |
| The Cooperative | p. 152 |
| Other Ways to Limit Liability | p. 156 |
| The Need for Basic Insurance | p. 157 |
| Assess and Reduce Your Risks | p. 166 |
| Product Liability | p. 167 |
| Protecting Appearances With Copyright | p. 169 |
| How a Copyright Protects You | p. 172 |
| What Type of Work Qualifies for Copyright | p. 173 |
| Photographs of Your Crafts Work | p. 177 |
| Do You Need to Register With the Copyright Office? | p. 178 |
| Choosing Whether to Register Your Works in Groups | p. 179 |
| Filing a Copyright Application | p. 180 |
| Posting a Copyright Notice on Your Work | p. 197 |
| Getting Permission to Use Someone Else's Work | p. 198 |
| Fair Use: When It's "Fair" for You to Use Pieces of Others' Works | p. 201 |
| The First Sale Doctrine: Your Right to Resell Works | p. 202 |
| The Public Domain: Free Stuff | p. 202 |
| Using Copyright Assignments | p. 204 |
| What Rights Does the Customer Acquire When They Buy Your Work? | p. 211 |
| Infringement of Copyright | p. 211 |
| The Visual Artists Rights Act: Crafts Works and Fine Arts | p. 213 |
| Personal/Model Releases | p. 215 |
| Protecting Appearances With Design Patents and Trade Dress | p. 221 |
| Comparing Design Patents and Copyright | p. 222 |
| Design Patents: The Bottom Line | p. 226 |
| How to Get a Design Patent | p. 227 |
| What Qualifies for a Design Patent | p. 229 |
| Preparing a Design Patent Application | p. 239 |
| Are There Other Types of Protection? | p. 249 |
| Trade Dress | p. 249 |
| What to Do If Your Work Is Ripped Off | p. 251 |
| Names and Trademarks | p. 255 |
| Trademark Basics | p. 256 |
| Collective Marks and Certification Marks | p. 264 |
| Staying Out of Trouble | p. 266 |
| Federal Registration | p. 271 |
| Licensing | p. 279 |
| Crafts Licensing Overview | p. 282 |
| Merchandise License Agreement | p. 287 |
| Licensing Worksheet | p. 324 |
| Taxes | p. 329 |
| Hobby vs. Business-What's the Difference? | p. 332 |
| Paying Taxes | p. 334 |
| Tax Deductions | p. 344 |
| Lawyers, Contracts, and Lawsuits | p. 359 |
| Hiring Lawyers for Routine Business | p. 361 |
| Hiring Lawyers for Legal Disputes | p. 363 |
| Finding the Right Lawyer | p. 364 |
| Fees and Fee Agreements | p. 366 |
| Evaluating Your Attorney's Services | p. 368 |
| Using Contract Provisions to Avoid Legal Costs and Hassles | p. 370 |
| Appendix | |
| How to Use the CD-ROM | p. 375 |
| Installing the Files Onto Your Computer | p. 376 |
| Using the Word Processing Files to Create Documents | p. 377 |
| Files on the CD-ROM | p. 380 |
| Index | |
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