Help Shape This Educational Program
The Authors Success Center is studying how authors manage creative ownership, business formation, financing, collaboration, and literary legacy.
Your responses will help determine which resources should be developed first.
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Survey Questions
- Have you established a business entity for your author activities?
- Which structure do you currently use?
- Do you know who legally owns the copyright to each of your books?
- Have you licensed audiobook, translation, film, stage, or merchandise rights?
- Have you worked with a collaborator?
- Did you use a written collaboration agreement?
- Have you accepted outside funding for a creative project?
- Would you consider an investment if you retained creative control?
- Have you created an intellectual-property inventory?
- Does your estate plan specifically address copyrights and royalties?
- Have you selected a literary executor?
- Had you heard of the Colorado Artist Company before visiting this site?
- Would you consider forming an Artist Company?
- What concerns would you have about forming one?
- Should Texas study a similar legal structure?
- Which educational topic is most important to you?
- Would you attend an attorney-led webinar?
- Would you pay for an author-business assessment?
- Would you use a professional referral network?
- What author-business problem have you found most difficult?
Your participation does not create a professional or advisory relationship. Survey information will be collected and reported without respondents' information, unless separate permission is given.