Music and musical performances have been essential to many small businesses for creating an engaging customer experience. Establishments such as coffee shops, fashion retailers, and restaurants offer music to enhance the ambiance of their businesses and entertain their customers. These amenities, however, may not come free. Performing rights organizations (PROs), entities that collect performing rights… Continue Reading…
EVENT RECAP: SF Arts Town Hall on 8/20/12
August 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
On August 20th, the San Francisco Arts Town Hall was held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The purpose of the event was to ignite conversation between the arts community and candidates for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors about the state of arts in San Francisco. It was a packed night with… Continue Reading…
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) & the Legality of Unpaid Internships
August 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
With today’s competitive job market, people can be quick to jump at the opportunity to gain experience—whether they get paid or not. This eagerness is what fuels the market for unpaid internships, where motivated people are looking to enhance their resumes and companies are looking to reduce labor costs. Unpaid internships are common in nonprofits,… Continue Reading…
The Creative Commons Series – Part 4: Find & Attribute Work
July 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
HOW TO FIND CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSED WORK Creative Commons has made it easy for you to find Creative Commons licensed photos, music, videos, and other media with one consolidated website that searches through major sites including Flickr, Google, Google Images, YouTube, and Jamendo. We recommend that you bookmark this link to the Creative Commons search… Continue Reading…
The Creative Commons Series – Part 3: Applying Your License
June 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Creative Commons licenses are powerful tools, enabling work to be easily shared and used. Before you apply any of these licenses, you should know exactly what you’re sharing under what terms. People using your work are depending on you to know! Misunderstanding or ignorance on how to use Creative Commons licenses can lead to costly,… Continue Reading…
The Creative Commons Series – Part 2: Creative Commons Licenses
June 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In Part 1 of this series, you were introduced to Creative Commons, its mission and its impact. Part 2 of this series will specifically discuss Creative Commons licenses, highlighting their specific functions. Copyright is an area of intellectual property law. It provides protection for original works of authorship by giving the copyright owner a bundle of rights… Continue Reading…
The Creative Commons Series – Part 1: An Introduction
May 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
If you are an artist, photographer, videographer or writer you may have already heard of Creative Commons. Even if you are a recreational picture-taker who posts the occasional family vacation photo to Flickr you probably noticed a prompt giving you the option to designate a Creative Commons license for the photograph. The terms of these… Continue Reading…