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Should You License or Assign Your Art?

A company wants to manufacture and sell your art. Great! They give you a contract but there’s one problem. According to the paperwork (an assignment contract), you must assign all your rights and give up ownership of the work permanently. That’s not what you expected. You wanted to retain your rights in the art. What you want is a license, but the company refuses to grant you one. How do you sort out what to do?

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Ten Tips for Songwriters: Credits, Copyrights, and Coauthors
Songwriters are often ill-equipped to handle the many business and legal issues that arise in their work. Here are ten tips to make your songwriting a success.

Consigning Your Arts and Crafts
Who’s responsible when artwork is damaged? What do you do when a gallery goes belly up?

Getting Permission for Sampling Others' Work
Failure to get permission when you sample an outside source could lead to serious consequences.

Must I pay former band members when I solo-produce a cowritten song?

I was in a band with a friend. We cowrote three songs together and had them copyrighted. Since then, we broke up. I am now going to put our songs on my CD, and she says I will owe her money for the songs when I sell the CDs. Also, she says that I can't modify the songs now. Is that true?

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