April 2012
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What's "Art Law"?
Or, in other words: what should creative people know about the law? This is what Ilya and Tudor taught us in their LSE workshop. Check out the video snippet below (on trademarks!) and don’t miss the traditional “3 takeaways” from the class: 1. Contracts help clarify expectations and relationships. When you collaborate with others on a project, negotiate and sign a written...
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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Intellectual Property Law For Small Business &...
It’s so hard to recap this class because it was really good. Sarah Feingold is Etsy’s General Counsel and she really know how to be straight to the point, and use examples to explain abstract legal concepts otherwise hard to grasp. She used sweet Ring Pops to teach how copyright, trademark and patents work, and how to deal with these biggies in the real world, staying out of trouble. ...
Apr 23rd
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Apr 17th
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Apr 9th
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TLDR
We kicked off our weekly series of legal workshops for entrepreneurs, Legal Stuff Explained, with a session on website Terms of Service, and we’ll be sharing some great tips here, so you don’t feel like the picture below anymore: Micheline Zamora is a lawyer from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, who mainly works with startups. She is an advocate of clear legal language, yet she also understands that...
Apr 9th
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Sold out!
In a couple of hours Zeke is going to finally explain in plain English how options and vesting work to a completely sold out LSE class. We will also attempt to videotape the class, for those of you who couldn’t make it!  Legal Stuff Explained #3: Paying with stock! Equity compensation for employers and employees When: Thursday, April 5th from 6:30pm to 7:30pm Where: NYU-Poly Incubator,...
Apr 5th
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