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As Michael Corleone says so well in The Godfather, “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.” While it may not feel personal or artistic, it is smart to know the legal basics for protecting your work and business relationships. Not sure how to put agreements in writing without straining friendships? Don’t know how or when to get your work copyrighted?

Join intellectual property attorneys, Tara Aaron and Rick Sanders from Aaron Sanders, to learn how to maximize copyright protection for your creative works. Legal Basics for the Arts will cover the key elements of copyright law, how copyrights can be transferred, and why it is important to have written agreements about your copyrighted works.

Legal Basics for the Arts: Copyright and Contracts

Monday, February 13, 2012 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum

(222 5th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203)

$10 ABC Members | $15 Non-members

Register now. Brown bag lunches welcome!

MORE ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Tara Aaron - Tara Aaron practiced law for nearly seven years at Stites & Harbison PLLC in downtown Nashville before opening Aaron | Sanders. At Stites, she was an attorney in the Intellectual Property and Technology Service Group, handling all manner of licenses, purchases, and sales of copyright, trademark, and patent assets. She has advised major political campaigns on the use of copyrighted music, and helped a small Southeastern company sell its Bluetooth technology for millions. Tara also represents artists, managers, record labels, and promoters, helping them ensure that their contracts are clear and their rights are secure. More on Tara.

Rick Sanders - The legal problems and challenges presented by software, hardware, e-commerce, social media and the Internet have long engaged Rick Sanders’ interest. Rick’s first two cases, as he began his career in Silicon Valley, involved the business and technology of making music available over the Internet. Rick has been hooked on intellectual property ever since. Although Rick enjoys all forms of intellectual property, copyright law has always engaged him the most. For this reason, Rick was instrumental in bringing the U.S. Copyright Office’s “traveling show” to Nashville for the first time in 2005. He has been co-producing “The Copyright Office Comes to Music City,” hosted by the First Amendment Center, ever since. More on Rick.

The Arts & Business Council connects artists and arts organizations with the services, skills and opportunities they need to thrive from their creative endeavors. The ABC Seminars exist to educate individual artists, creative professionals and arts organizations to help them master the business of arts.