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Checking in on Your Brand Health in 2024

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Navigate 2024's digital landscape with this guide on trademark protection, copyright strategies, and essential tips for brand health. From IP audits to online monitoring, stay ahead in the competitive business world. Your Virtual Advocate offers a comprehensive brand health check-in aligned with 2024 goals.

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Strikes in Hollywood Highlight the Need to Safeguard Creative Rights in the AI Era

At long last, we have emerged from a historic moment in the entertainment industry to see both the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) secure major contractual victories. Dual strikes by writers and actors are incredibly rare. The writers' strike spanned 146 days, while actors held out for 118 days before reaching an agreement on November 9th.

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How Cease and Desist Letters Empower and Protect Small Businesses

Creatives and artists deserve the protection offered under copyright law for the significant and unique work they’re building a career on each and every day. Copyright law covers a vast landscape and provides a pathway of protection and enforcement that allows these creatives and artists to flourish.

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What Can a Legal Subscription Service Like Creators LegalScription™ Do for You as a Creative?

Calling all small business creatives: Stop paying insanely high prices for legal services. It’s time to modernize the legal landscape for creatives, artists, and musicians and provide vital creative copyright services without all the fees and billable hours.

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Determination of Royalty Rates and Terms for Making and Distributing Phonorecords

Decision of the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) in regards to royalty rates for the compulsory license to use musical works in making and distributing phonorecords. Songwriters can anticipate receiving their owed royalties by February 2024.

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