Event Summary

WALA Creative Entrepreneurs Series (CES)
(Legal Issues for Creative Entrepreneurs)

WALA’s Creative Entrepreneurs Series is a series for creatives of all kinds who want to take the next step in their professional career by creating their own business. Explore the basics of forming a business for your creative endeavors, from deciding whether to incorporate as a non-profit or for-profit entity, to understanding copyrights and trademarks, to contract and negotiation skills, and finally to estate planning for artists and creatives and understanding the grants process.

The series comprises of six sessions to be held on *consecutive Tuesdays, starting Tuesday, September 17, 2024 and continuing through Tuesday, October 22, 2024 from1am – 1pm.

Location:
WALA RingCental Video Conference Platform.
You will be asked to download and install their software to access each session.

*All sessions are online
*Attendees must Register for each individual session.
*There are 6 sessions in all.

• Session #1: Tuesday, September 17, 2024 ~ Copyright/Trademark Protection & Use

(Select this date to attend this session)

Presentation and Q & A with:

John D. Mason, Copyright Counselors, WALA Board President

This session covers:

• Copyright Registration

• Fair Use

• Works Made For Hire

• Trademark

• Rights Management

• Creative Commons

• Licensing

• Protecting your creations

John D. Mason of Copyright Counselors, LLC is an art, entertainment and intellectual property attorney, and literary agent. He is based in the Washington DC/Maryland area. His practice focuses on copyright and trademark transactional matters, litigation, publishing and media issues, contracts, and commercial matters. He works with writers, artists, filmmakers and people and companies in creative industries to protect, promote and exploit their work. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Mason is adjunct faculty teaching Entertainment Law at UDC Law School, teaching Art, Cultural Heritage and the Law at George Washington University School of Law, past adjunct teaching Art and the Law at George Mason University, Board President of Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, and past Advisory Board member of the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington.

His email is jmason@copyrightcounselors.com and his firm website is www.copyrightcounselors.com.

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The 2024 Fall WALA Creative Entrepreneurs Series is FREE for *WALA members.
*$20 per workshop for non-members.

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WALA programs and activities are sponsored in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Event Details

• Date

  September 17, 2024

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• Time

  11:00am - 1:00pm

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• Venue

  Online