Build Your Author Business Knowledge
The Learning Center provides structured education for authors who want to better understand creative ownership and professional planning.
Learning Track One: Know What You Own
Topics:
- Copyright basics
- Rights inventories
- Publishing agreements
- Licensing versus assignment
- Rights reversion
- Joint authorship
Learning Track Two: Build the Business
Topics:
- Sole proprietorships
- LLCs
- Corporations
- Partnerships
- Publishing imprints
- Recordkeeping
- Banking and insurance
Learning Track Three: Protect Creative Control
Topics:
- Collaborator agreements
- Governance
- Voting rights
- Approval rights
- Investors
- Adaptations
- Dispute planning
Learning Track Four: Understand the A-Corp
Topics:
- Colorado Artist Company Act
- Artist qualification
- Artistic mission
- Majority artist control
- Intellectual-property treatment
- Dissolution
- Multistate considerations
Learning Track Five: Protect the Legacy
Topics:
- Literary executors
- Copyright succession
- Digital assets
- Unpublished manuscripts
- Royalties
- Archives
- Business continuation
Planned Educational Formats
- Articles
- Video lessons
- Downloadable worksheets
- Webinars
- Attorney interviews
- Author case studies
- Group workshops
- Annual updates
- Professional referral sessions
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