Posted by Michelle Grenier on Tue, Aug 03, 2010 @ 03:07 PM
The most common question I hear from new clients is, "what do I need to do to start my business?" Here is a summary of the most common tasks for new businesses:
1. Joint Venture Agreement: Enter a joint venture agreement for all founders, that describes the duties, responsibilities and expectations of each party.
2. Establish a Separate Entity. Establish a corporation or limited liability company [LLC], to protect the personal assets of each owner of the business.
3. Open a separate bank account for the corporation or LLC and refrain from co-mingling personal funds with business funds.
4. Find out what licenses you will need for your project.
5. Make sure that your commercial lease protects your interests, not just the landlord's interests.
6. Find out if your preferred is available for use and registration and then register your trademarks with the USPTO.
7. Make sure that your website is in compliance with proper terms of use, privacy policy, copyright notices, etc.
8. Require all those privy to trade secrets, execute a comprehensive nondisclosure and confidentiality agreement.
9. Require employees and independent contractors to enter into comprehensive agreements.
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Posted by Michelle Grenier on Thu, Jul 08, 2010 @ 05:26 PM
You will likely be asked to provide the following information with regard to your work, when requesting copyright registration.
- Name/Title of the work [the Work]
- What is the Type of Work: [is it text, an image, audio, visual, written, etc.]
- What aspect of the Work, specifically, did you want to claim rights to: (e.g. text, audio, visual, lyrics, sound, etc.)
- The following information is required for all Creators/Authors of the Work: Name, Address, Telephone Number, Citizenship
- Provide the year the Work was created or completed? Note whether the Work is still being modified.
- Provide the date of first publication of the Work? Within what nation was the Work published?
- Is the Work based upon a derivative of or incorporate any preexisting work(s). If so, explain.
- If your answer to question 7 is yes, describe what was added to or changed to make this Work, for which copyright is claimed.
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