52 short, understandable Conversations provide artists in all genres with a working knowledge of the legal issues affecting their arts and businesses. Copyright. Trademark. Contracts. Lawyers. Courts. Nonprofits.

52 short, understandable Conversations provide artists in all genres with a working knowledge of the legal issues affecting their arts and businesses. Uses a humorous, storytelling format. Organized sequentially for classroom use; includes exercises for reinforcement and further study. Fully indexed. Extensive glossary. Arts Law Conversations is divided into four sections: Navigating the Legal System; Intellectual Property; Contracts; and Business Issues You Might Have Overlooked. This book is for everyone! It's for you, creatives: musicians, filmmakers, writers, performers, visual artists. It's for you, industry professionals: agents, managers, lawyers, galleries, venues. It's for you, teachers and students. It's for you, business community. We all create, and we all consume the creative work of others. These brief Conversations, featuring characters in real-life situations, will help readers spot and understand the legal issues that too often cause creators and consumers alike to roll their eyes and use bad words. You'll get it. You might even laugh.

Love God, love people. Could evangelism really be that simple? Often, it doesn’t seem so. It can feel scary, awkward, and uncomfortable as we try to navigate loaded questions and different perspectives. Even the most faithful of believers sometimes get stumped. But can you imagine if we, as Christians, simply spent time with people who are far from God and provided a safe place to talk about spiritual matters? If we listened to them and discovered what was really important to them? After all . . . it’s what Jesus did. And it’s what you can do too. Drawing straight from the life and ministry of Jesus, The 9 Arts of Spiritual Conversations offers simple practices to help you build relationships with people who believe differently. Anyone who has read and appreciated Becoming a Contagious Christian or Just Walk across the Room won’t want to miss this book on creating a safe space to have natural, loving, and spiritual conversations with others.

Art Law: Cases and Materials, Second Edition offers a timely and panoramic view of the entire field of law. Designed as a primary text for courses on Law and the Visual Arts, Cultural Property Law, or Cultural Heritage Law, the three-part framework of this highly readable casebook explores Artists’ Rights, Art Markets, and the International Preservation of Art and Cultural Property.

A companion to "Arts Law Conversations" (Ruly Press 2014), for estate planning professionals who need to know how to manage copyright assets in their clients' estates. Seasoned professionals err frequently, by transferring copyrights without considering the copyright termination right. This essential reference will help such professionals avoid mistakes and better achieve their clients' objectives. (Added bonus: it's fun and easy to read).

Art Against the Law launches the new Chicago Social Practice History series, edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Kate Zeller in the Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). In 1968, Chicago made headlines for the ferocity of its police response to protesters at the Democratic National Convention, prompting outrage in the art world. Some artists pulled their shows from the city and called for a boycott until the mayor left office. But others responded artistically, creating new works and even full exhibitions in reaction to the political and social issues raised by the summer's events. Despite the city's sometimes notorious political and social history, art practices that challenge authority have thrived in Chicago. Art Against the Law examines the creative tactics of the city's activist artists and their ways of addressing the broad definitions of the law - from responses to excessive policing to inequities in public policy. These include creative forms of protest, rebellion against the law through illegal art practices, and using the political system itself as an art medium to alter existing laws. The essays and conversations in this volume also address the boundaries between art and creative activism and question whether lines should be drawn at all. Through these texts and interviews, Art Against the Law proves that creative imagination can be formidable in challenging the status quo.

This book provides a bird's eye view of contemporary issues in art claims and litigation. It outlines the legal machinery driving the cross-border movement of cultural objects and explores the questions that come to light when art travels globally. Along the way, the book explains the role of national legislation in the protection of cultural objects, and offers guidance on the drafting of art-related agreements. While the focus of this survey is on tangible art and other forms of cultural wealth, the book refers to intellectual property rights and their relationship with physical things. It enables art owners and administrators, along with the communities and governments to which they answer, to develop an understanding of the vast scope and variety of art disputes. Readers will also learn the need for prudence and foresight in any dealings in art. Art, Adventure and Advocacy clearly demonstrates, by use of examples, why it is preferable to take legal advice before the event than to suffer litigation and loss afterwards. [Subject: International Law, Art Law, Cultural Heritage Law, Antiquities Law, Intellectual Property Law]