#73 - Legal Advice for Entrepreneurs with Autumn Witt Boyd

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🗓️ 24 May 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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We're so excited to finally have a lawyer on the show! Autumn Witt Boyd is an attorney who offers legal solutions for creative entrepreneurs—including contracts, copyrights, trademarks, and entity formation.Topics discussed in this episode:-Working with a lawyer does not have to be scary (8:09)-First legal steps creatives can take to set themselves up as a legitimate -business (9:25)-The difference between trademarking and copyrighting (11:59)-The difference between a sole proprietorship, an LLC, and an S-corp (16:00)-Having multiple businesses and using a DBA (21:10)-Website terms & conditions and privacy policy (24:57)-Copycats and when to sue people or take legal action (29:10)-Taking legal action against haters (33:58)-Filing a DMCA takedown notice (36:32)-Intellectual property vs. copyrighting (40:21)-When to hire a lawyer in your business (41:34)-Self-publishing books and protecting your work (44:13)-Contracts, Affiliate agreements, and giving others your content (46:16)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Being Boss episode number 73.
0:04.0	This episode is brought to you by Freshbooks Cloud Accounting.
0:08.0	Being Boss and work and life is being in it.
0:16.7	It's being who we are, doing the work,
0:19.9	breaking some rules, and even though we each have to do it on our own
0:23.8	Being boss is knowing we're in it together.
0:28.3	I want to pause for a moment and acknowledge that in today's episode we're talking about a lot of stuff that us
0:33.7	creatives can often get scared of from legal stuff to accounting which is why we
0:40.5	love Fresh Books Cloud accounting software.
0:42.8	It's made specifically for small business owners
0:45.6	and freelancers who want to spend less time
0:48.8	dealing with the money side of their business,
0:51.0	but still get paid like bosses by being able to easily invoice
0:54.9	their clients and track their expenses and get everything organized in a way
1:00.2	that makes them legit. You guys can try fresh books for free for 30 days by going to
1:05.6	freshbooks.com slash being boss and enter being boss in the how did you hear about
1:10.3	us section. Okay you guys today we are talking to creative attorney Autumn
1:15.6	Witt Boyd and we are so excited to finally have a lawyer on the show. Autumn, welcome.
1:23.0	Thanks for joining us.
1:24.0	Yeah, I'm so excited to shout with you guys.
1:26.0	Let's launch off this episode
1:28.0	by talking a little bit about your background.
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