Business Law
How to sell Design (Part 2)
You offer a service of which you are an expert; However, you have to justify that value. The goal is for the client to understand the value of the service.
Silvino Diaz February 18, 2020
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Business Law
Forget About Landing a “Hit” Single (Part 2)
“Winning the attention of any audience is an exercise of supreme deliberation and tireless execution. More than ever, the popularity of an artist depends on factors beyond his or her music.”
Silvino Diaz February 18, 2020
Business Law
Can a U.S Non-Profit Organization Provide Services in Foreign Countries?
Along with registering an organization in the United States, many, if not all countries require proper registration within their governmental agency as well. This not only allows foreign countries to have control over U.S organizations operating within their nation’s borders, it also helps keep track of activities and allows the enforcement of local laws.
Silvino Diaz February 17, 2020
Employment Law
Can small Start-up Companies Sponsor Foreign Individuals when Their OPT has Expired?
Optional Practical Training (OPT) is temporary work authorization, granted to F-1 “International Student” visa holders. OPT is offered to students that qualify under their degree program to engage in work directly related to their major area of study.
Silvino Diaz February 17, 2020
Business Law
Forget About Landing a “Hit” Single (Part 1)
Do you want to know what is wrong in the music industry? The problem with the industry is not that talent is lacking, it is the overdose of it.
Silvino Diaz February 17, 2020
Business Law
How to sell Design (Part 1)
Most clients, in those first meetings, are looking to know what you are thinking as a designer, so they can then go to another one with whom they have more trust so they can do a similar job to the one you presented. Many times, they end up doing poor work.
Silvino Diaz February 17, 2020
Business Law
Copyrights Myths #2 – “If I mail Myself my work and I don’t open the Envelope…”
…I can vindicate my rights without having to register it” – is not correct. This method is known as the “poor man’s rule,” and proposes that if one encloses in a copy of, for example, a guitar composition recorded on a disc, and mails it to his or herself and does not open the envelope, this will evidence, by the postal stamp, the date of the work’s creation.
Silvino Diaz February 17, 2020
Intellectual Property Law
8 Things to keep in mind when Inventing (Part 2)
Once the application is submitted, a rigorous evaluation by USPTO officials follows, to certify that what you present as your “claim” in your application is useful, novel and non-obvious. It is also used to check that there is no current patent on it.
Silvino Diaz February 13, 2020
Business Law
8 Things to keep in mind when Inventing (Part 1)
Applying for a patent can be viewed as a contract between inventors and the public (government) in which inventors, in exchange for making their invention public, are granted a limited monopoly over it.
Silvino Diaz February 13, 2020
Entertainment Law
Copyrights Myths #1 – “The work must be Registered to Acquire Rights”
There are two requirements for copyright – originality and fixation on a tangible means of expression.
Silvino Diaz February 13, 2020
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