Liability is a major concern for many freelance writers. In this three-part series, NASW Freelance Committee member Kendall Powell looks at steps you can take to limit your liability. Part II: Setting up a business entity to protect your assets.
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Liability is a major concern for many freelance writers. In this three-part series, NASW Freelance Committee member Kendall Powell looks at steps you can take to limit your liability. Part III: Professional liability insurance options.
Freelancing is all about networking: meeting people, making connections, building relationships, helping others, and hoping that people will think of you when some work comes along. So how can you accomplish that from the comfort of your own office? LinkedIn, the online business networking site, is one of the best tools for the job.
Sure, your editor loves you. But get your agreement in writing anyway. In this article, Anthony N. Elia, a New York attorney specializing in intellectual property, entertainment law, and commercial law, presents an introduction to contracts and negotiating them. This is the first article in a multi-part series on the basic law of book and magazine freelance contracts.
Do you hold the rights to a book, or part of one, whether in or out of print? If so, you should know about this recent settlement. It affects your rights, and may bring you some money.
Q: When a publisher offers me a contract, I'd better sign it or I'll lose the job, right?
Q. Shouldn't publishers be able to obtain the copyright for all the articles we publish? After all, we're paying for them.
NASW Members looking for health, long-term care, vision, and dental insurance should be made aware that NASWers in NY (up to Ulster, Putnam, and Rockland County) (Oxford), CT, NJ, Greater Chicago, including part of Indiana, California, and Florida (CIGNA), can get health insurance through TEIGIT, The Entertainment Insurance Group Insurance Trust.
Negotiating a contract can be the most gut-churning part of being a freelance. In this article, reprinted from Freelance Success, Jennifer Pirtle offers sound advice and personal tips for arriving at agreement without knuckling under or burning your bridges.
Although it may be possible to survive as a freelance on straight journalism alone, most of us also take on other work as well, for universities, corporations, or research institutions. Jeanne Erdmann explores the rules, guidelines, and pitfalls in working both sides of the line.