Re: [spiers] Re: Distributorship agreement/agent agreement
Try MRA (Manufacturers Representatives of America) or MANA (Manufacturers
Agents National Association). MANA would probably be more helpful to a startup.
Both have contracts for manufacturers reps.
Louise
Friday, September 17, 2004
Just Too Good!
Thursday, September 16, 2004
Gathering information
This is not exactly related to import/export, but I don't know where
else to turn.
I'm in the process of negotiating a service package to an extremely busy
and dis-organized small business owner, providing her online admin,
sales support and customer services. Basically being her virtual
assistant. Her business is very varied, pretty much anything that has to
do with China and rest of Asia.
This prompted me to think if there's any small business owners out there
dealing in import/export who need similar services? I have not gotten
into import/export personally yet, so I don't really know everything
that're involved. Which areas would an importer/exporter need help with
the most? Most of the VAs specialize in real estate, but my interest is
in import/export, and I'm just wondering if this could be my niche.
Any suggestions at all would be very much appreciated.
Best Regards,
Jennifer
Just Too Good!
Re: Distributorship agreement/agent agreement
John...
Do you know where I can find drafts (boiler plate agreements) for
distributors/agent/manufacturer's rep. agreements. I'd like to sign some folks
up without having to spend for attorney's fees especially when the documents can
be found on the internet.
Jay
Commission Statements
Hi John and Group,
We have been testing MYOB and QuickBooks Premier for our accounting
software. Per one of my old questions, BOTH automatically can print
out invoice and packing slips.
I am struggling to figure out the best way to calculate sales
commission reports for our rep groups. Anyone have experience with
this so far? We have been using an excel spreadsheet to enter
manually but it would be great if we could learn how to do it with
the software. I have found some ways to do commission but it is tied
in with excessive forms/ automatic tax deductions, etc.
If anyone has any good solutions of how to handle this I would love
to hear.
Thanks so much,
Paul
Sunday, September 12, 2004
public domain art
Re: [spiers] public domain art
Jeff,
What you have is a copyright law issue. You are guessing at the answers and
that is very dangerous if you are going to invest a lot of time and money.
You may have to forfeit the money, and more, if you guess wrong.
Get the name of the artist and the painting. Do a little internet surfing to
see what you can find.
If you cannot find out with certainty whether the material is or is not
copyrighted, call the State Bar in your state and ask for their lawyer
referral service. They will ask you what you are looking for and give you
the names, usually three, and numbers of lawyers in your area who have
advised the bar that they do copyright law. Usually, lawyers who sign up for
the referral service have to agree to give the potential new client a
half-hour of consultation at a reduced rate. In Virginia, for example, it's
$35.00 for the first half hour. If you ask the right questions, you will get
a lot more than $35.00 worth of value.
Copyright is both a federal and state law issue. U.S. Copyrights do expire
(after 50 years?) but can be renewed.
If you are going to reproduce paintings from foreign lands, you also may
have international copyright issues, which can be complicated.
There is also something called compulsory copyright, which means you can use
the work without the copyright holders permission but you must, nonetheless,
pay royalties to the copyright holder.
When you retain a copy artist to produce the template copy you are going to
sell, you will want to retain the copy artist under a written contract that
gives you the copyright to the work he or she is producing in exchange for
the money you are paying.
Finally, if I recall correctly, when a copyright expires, the work enters
the "public domain" and can be used without restriction.
DISCLAIMER: Yes, I am a lawyer, But ***NO***, I am NOT your lawyer, and I am
NOT giving you legal advice. I DO NOT practice in the are of copyright law.
With this email, I am simply sharing information I recall with dubious
clarity from law school.
Invest some upfront time and money in a copyright lawyer's services. You'll
learn more than you pay for, and it may well save your posterior if you move
forward with the project.
David
> From: wileyccc@aol.com
> Reply-To: spiers@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:34:19 -0400
> To: spiers@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [spiers] public domain art
>
> Hmmm.. I think at this point the image belogns to the graphic artist...
>
> John
>
> How does someone own an image of French or Russian art
> of the 1900's or even let's say some one older like
> Van Gogh and assume he has no decendents if I buy a
> poster and have a graphic artists make a replica the
> image is now mine isn't it???
>
> Jeff
public domain art
Re: [spiers] public domain art
I believe the modified image still belongs to the artist. Here is a website
that has some basic information on how artists can maintain their copywrite
protection of their work:
http://1x.com/advisor/ (main page)
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html (10 big myths about copywrite...)
Hope this helps.
wileyccc@aol.com wrote:
Hmmm.. I think at this point the image belogns to the graphic artist...
John
How does someone own an image of French or Russian art
of the 1900's or even let's say some one older like
Van Gogh and assume he has no decendents if I buy a
poster and have a graphic artists make a replica the
image is now mine isn't it???
Jeff
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