From Edie Everette’s “I Am An Artist” series.

If a for-profit enterprise is making money from folks who contribute for free, I’m immediately suspicious.

Here is some background on how these intellectual property decisions are made by doll companies.

The surface is just superficial, right? Not when Lea Anderson is organizing a show about it.

Well-written shop policies to potential disasters are like a bed of boric acid to an ant infestation: the sort of best practice you only learn the hard way.

Without a connection to the authenticity and story, a project can be hard to see through the clutter.

It’s a simple, effective way to organize and communicate your ideas, and is an essential skill to have in the film business.

You can copyright a combination of images and text, even if the text by itself is not copyrightable.

Let yourself think big and then bigger still. Expand your impact.

It’s fun to use lit cigarettes in photos with blue puffed-up smoke in the air swirling in front of a black backdrop.

In a time when we’re all so lonely and disconnected, the market moves in offering to fill us all with the love we’ve been missing.

I sat there astounded by the motion of the sea and my mind was led to a thought that this world has been and will forever be in perpetual motion.

Clothing designs are not protected under copyright law and resale is permitted under the first sale doctrine.

From Edie Everette’s “I Am An Artist” series.

The more that you are actively working in your field — whether that means writing for magazines, playing music at clubs, hosting gallery events or building furniture for a hotel — the more you’ll find yourself needing to execute contracts with other businesses and people.

When you’re making money — even just scraps — from your creative work not as an employee of some other company, guess what: You’re running a business.