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Scott Carnegie
July 25, 2011 at 3:21 pm in reply to: Music copyright and show copyright Q’s

1. Copyright is instant upon the creation of the show, you don’t have to do anything else.

2. That idea of using just short clips of copyrighted music is a folk tale, if it’s for commercial use like the intro of your show you are violating copyright. Save yourself the trouble and get royalty free stuff.

http://www.MediaCircus.TV
Media Production Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Scott Carnegie
July 25, 2011 at 3:16 pm in reply to: Who’s Liable? – Who ‘owns’ tapes?

Get paid for your costs and time, hand over the tapes and let him have the headache of getting clearances and making something out of it. If only 9 people were there, most of which were part of the production, how prepared is this person to make something out of it anyways? RUN!

http://www.MediaCircus.TV
Media Production Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Scott Carnegie
July 20, 2011 at 7:04 pm in reply to: Another unrelated invoice question

Thats not a bad way to handle it, let a collection company buy the debt from you and then it’s their problem.

http://www.MediaCircus.TV
Media Production Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Scott Carnegie
July 19, 2011 at 3:57 pm in reply to: should i incorporate???

“Here’s what i want to be established legally, pay taxes, etc.”

You WANT to pay taxes? lol.

I have been running first as a partnership and now as a sole proprietorship, you don’t need to incorporate to do business, and probably don’t need a license, it will depend on where you are.

I did a name search and registered my company’s name with the Province, the business number is also my GST (taxes) number but I don’t need to collect GST as long as I stay under a certain number of freelance income per year.

For what it sounds like you are doing for the near future incorporation doesn’t seem necessary. If you start making a lot of money, incorporate and hire a lawyer and accountant to handle all of that crap while you go do the fun stuff.

I am actually looking at incorpoating for the first time because I am doing a documentary which is applying for tax credits, which requires an incorporation. BUT I am not incorporating my own company, it will be a new numbered company, blah blah, laywers and accountants.

http://www.MediaCircus.TV
Media Production Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Scott Carnegie
July 18, 2011 at 2:40 pm in reply to: Trademark

A trademark refers to the “mark” under which an entity does “trade” aka business; compnay name, logo’s, etc. Anything else is something else like copyright.

http://www.MediaCircus.TV
Media Production Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Scott Carnegie
July 14, 2011 at 6:19 pm in reply to: Another unrelated invoice question

[Shawn Bann] “So everyone who gives a bad review on Yelp is a jerk?”

Not at all what I said. *Perception* Leaving a bad review, socially acceptable in most circles. Making a website dedicated to saying how bad a particular client was makes YOU look bad and is in poor taste.

http://www.MediaCircus.TV
Media Production Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Scott Carnegie
July 14, 2011 at 2:26 pm in reply to: Another unrelated invoice question

Wowza, this is extremely bad form. Publicly embarrassing a bad client makes you look like a jerk, not so much the client. It might be a neat story, but I would never work with someone that had done this.

http://www.MediaCircus.TV
Media Production Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Scott Carnegie
July 14, 2011 at 2:10 pm in reply to: Another unrelated invoice question

I am talking about perception. I once had a client that was sue happy, he loved taking people to court, and once when we had a contract dispute he was quick to jump to “I’ll sue you!” Well, in this case my contract saved me, but otherwise I should have known going in that this was a possibility. Whether he was justified in all of those cases or not, it showed a pattern of behavior that should have warned me about doing business with him.

The point is that if the perception is that you get your clients arrested for non-payment that psychologically it can have an impact on whether people would want to do business with you. This is separate from logic, reason or truth. I am just saying proceed with caution.
I was at the point of suing a client for non-payment once, once I told him I was going to sue he paid up. If he didn’t and I got a judgment against him and he still didn’t pay up, then it would be up to me to judge whether the amount owed is worth the risk of going further.
Is this fight over $100? 100,000? The amount does matter.

http://www.MediaCircus.TV
Media Production Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Scott Carnegie
July 13, 2011 at 9:10 pm in reply to: Another unrelated invoice question

While you may be morally and legally correct in doing so, perception has more impact. If I heard that my plumber has some dude arrested because he wasn’t paying him the money he was owed, I would understand, but I wouldn’t want him as my plumber because he might do the same to me.

Is the remaining balance a lot? It it’s not worth the hassle then let it go.

http://www.MediaCircus.TV
Media Production Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Scott Carnegie
July 13, 2011 at 3:51 pm in reply to: Invoice Issue (did I overstep?)

Every project you do should have a contract or some type of payment schedule in writing. At minimum I will provide a quote/proposal for people with delverables and payment schedules that they will agree to via e-mail, some clients want a more formal contract. Have something.

http://www.MediaCircus.TV
Media Production Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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