Bruce Bennett
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Walter,
Great post. Words that support why you are a jedi of the COW. You always seem to write what I feel.
Bruce
Bruce Bennett,
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Jacki,
This is my own personal experience…
I own my own business and do biz as a single employee/President of an LLC. Since I’m single and have no children, I have an individual policy. I can’t get a company plan without having at least 2 employees in the “company.” I pay about $135 per month, pay the first $1,500 in expenses per year, and a $2,500 major medical deductible. Med co-pays are very big. Every insurance policy offers “sh-terible” prescription co-pay plans.Do you have a family or married? If so, then insurance costs about 1,000% more. Married = family policy (with or without kids), The Republicans have it set up that way with “free enterprise heath care”:) Being single, I have an individual plan signed up with my personal data info that’s paid with my LLC’s debit card. It works with my accountant so I guess it’s all legit.
If you’re married, then I suggest that you get insurance via your significant other/husband/wife. Some of my colleagues that started their own businesses with paying for their family have paid up the nose.Just my experience. There’s a tremendous amount good biz members here at the COW. If they hop on this post, you’ll get lots of good advice.
Bruce
Bruce Bennett,
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Your DVD not playing may not have been the file, but the brand of disc used
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Mike,
I recently posted a similar question in this same forum. After 14 years of
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[Steve Wargo] ” saw that you are also an MCA-I member. Do you know Lou Hunt? She is from Madison and does a lot of our voice work.
Yep, I’ve been a member of ITVA/MCA-I for about 15 years now. We have a pretty strong and cool chapter. Steve Tingly from American Family Insurance was even the national President.
Don’t know Lou Hunt. I’m sure the guys at Concept or Haggar know her. I’ll ask for some demos.I was in Milwaukee and Oshkosh last week shooting footage for an aviation TV show that we’re trying to get off the ground. (Pun pun pun!)
Big thing in Oshkosh. So many planes that they tend to collide and crash from time to time.
I was in Madison in ’73 or so for a big motorcycle race on the 4th of July or Labor Day. It’s all a bit foggy after all these years and all those party beverages.”
I graduated from Madison in 1990. I love Madison (even with the sub zero temps). I’ve heard lots of stories about the 70s. Are you sure it was the beverages that made it all foggy? 🙂
Email me at bruce@bmmp.com
Bruce
Bruce Bennett,
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Steve,
Was your experience in Arizona a federal or state case? One lawyer told me that suing over copyright violation is a federal case and takes federal dollars, federal lawyers, etc.
She said that a person should create a contract in which copyright is transferred because you can then sue for “breech of contract” which is easier/cheaper to pursue because it takes only state dollars, state lawyers, etc. And once/if you win at a state level, you then you can go on to the federal level and sue for more money over copyright violation.Make sense to you?
Bruce
Bruce Bennett,
Bennett Marketing & Media Production, LLC – http://www.bmmp.com -
[Mike_S] “As I understand it, the default position as far as moving image work is concerned is that the body or person who makes the arrangements for the work to be produced – typically the producer – is regarded as its author and first copyright holder.”
Maybe you’ve heard differently from a different lawyer, but we have had 2 different lawyers talk 2 different times at our local MCA-I chapter meetings about copyright. Each time, both lawyers said, “He or she who creates owns copyright.” So, for moving images/video/film, still photographs, tattoos, graffiti on walls, etc. it is the actual person who created the work. For this example of moving images, it is the Videographer who owns copyright because it is the Videographer who created the image – not the Producer and not the client. Typically a Producer/Director or client gets the copyright from the Videographer is through a “work for hire” agreement. To be sage, each person who works on the project (i.e., talent, Videographer, grip, DP, make up artist, etc.) should sign such an agreement.
Bruce Bennett,
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John,
Lots of good, professional advice in response to your post. Now this is how my experience relates to a
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[David Roth Weiss] “Clients don’t really care what mathematical equasion you use to derive your invoice total, they just want to know that you can produce whatever they need without having to ride herd on you, and that your final numbers always jive fairly closely within the constraints of their estimated budget.”
I think David pretty much says it all with this sentence. Corporations allocated
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Jeffrey,
Not sure how much you’d make on the end product, but I think you’d do a lot more than $100 worth of damage to your biz’s reputation if your client starts bad mouthing to potential customers (even if you are in the right, it won’t matter once the damage is done).
I’d invoice it all at 2007 prices and then put in a line item discount to reflect the cost difference — making sure she knows that she is getting a good deal.
Bruce
Bruce Bennett,
Bennett Marketing & Media Production, LLC – http://www.bmmp.com