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Legalities:

Legalities #1 : What is Copyright?

Legalities #2 : More About Copyright

Legalities #3 : Copyrighting Graphic Design; Online Infringement; Depicting Famous People

Legalities #4 : What is Work Made For Hire?

Legalities #5 : Some Questions About Fair Use

Legalities #6 : Follow-Up Questions About Fair Use And Collage

Legalities #7 : Issues Regarding the Use of Someone’s Likeness

Legalities #8: More on Using Real People in Your Work

Legalities #9: Online Works: Registration and Copying

Legalities #10: Questions about making greeting cards from photographs; copyright for old works; publishing contracts; agents

Legalities #11: Questions About Contract Language

Legalities #12: How to Hire a Lawyer

Legalities #13: Selling Your Work as Fine Art, Part 1

Legalities #14: Contracts and Trademarks

Legalities #15: Is a Shape Copyrightable? How to Get Appropriate Rights When You Commission Graphic Design

Legalities #16: Can a Design Firm Show Comps that Use Stock Photos? Can a Photographer Publish Out-takes of Celebrities for Self-Promotion?

Legalities #17: Privacy and Clowns

Legalities #18:Talking Heads: Is it Safe to Create Animated Characters Based on a Customer's Photo?

Legalities #19: Portfolio Rights

Legalities #20: Working with Children's Artwork

Legalities #21: Your Work As Fine Art Part 2

Legalities #22: Does Posting Your Artwork Online Count As "Publication"?

Legalities #23: Registering your copyright in graphic design: how to fight back if the Copyright Office says no.

Legalities #24: Non-competition contracts.

Legalities #25: Work-Made-For-Hire and Infringement.

Legalities #26: Orphan Works: Linda Joy's letter to members of Congress re. H.R. 5439 by Linda Joy Kattwinkel

Legalities #27: Comping and Infringement

Legalities #28: Copyright Ownership for Collaborative Projects

Legalities #29: Infringing Cartoon Characters

Legalities #30: Jeff Koons and Copyright Infringement

Legalities #31: Creating brand images for your client—who owns what rights?

Guest Columnist

Guest Columnist #1: Brainy Illustration: Why My Grandmother Finally Understands What I Do for a Living

Guest Columnist #2:"Confessions on An Inside (the Newsroom) Man" or The Clock is Ticking

Bill Bites

Bill Bites #01 : Be Available and Be Useful

Bill Bites #02 : The Stravinsky Club

Bill Bites #03 : 8 Positive Things About Illustration In TheYear 2003

Bill Bites #04 : The Subjective In Visual Journalism

Bill Bites #05 : California-Like Dreamin': An Open Letter To The Icon 4 Board

Bill Bites #06 : Images Have Some Scary Beautiful Power
An Interview with Bill Grigsby

Bill Bites #07 : Why Volunteer?

Bill Bites #08 : A Life of Persuading

Bill Bites #09 : The Inspired Sales Tax Initiative

Bill Bites #10 : Process at Heart

Bill Bites #11 : Jump the Shark

Bill Bites #12 : Cowbells

Bill Bites #13 : Rockwell Kent: The Art of Empathy

Bill Bites #14 : Being Private and Public

Bill Bites #15: Pull the Cart Push the Cart

Bill Bites #16: Our Eyes are Dancing

Bill Bites #17: New Visual Journalist in the Field

Bill Bites #18: The Beast Killed the Beauty

Bill Bites #19: Action Man

Bill Bites #20: Whatever happened to Joe VDB

Bill Bites #21: Bruce Mau is no mere Graphic designer

Bill Bites #22: What is Enough? The Future of Illustration for Me and You

Bill Bites #23: Designers who Blog