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Workshops and Speaking Engagements

 

Description

Copyright myths and pitfalls for women who create original material through professional teaching and/or writing. Learn to protect your work against specious “work for hire” and joint copyright claims. Strategies for protecting your interests in a copyright world still stuck in a pre-technological society.

Includes:

• Copyright as asset
• Joint copyright creation – advantages and disadvantages
• Work for Hire – advantages and disadvantages
• License vs. sale
• Reversion of your copyright
• What’s so fair about fair use? Teaching/research/scholarship and criticism and comment

Representative Venue

• Grace Hopper International Conference In Celebration of Women in Computing (the World’s Largest Gathering of Women Technologists) Houston, Texas

Description

Customizable for visual artists, photographers, writers, fine craft artists, musicians, educators, students. One, two or three hours available.

Includes:

• Definition; examples; distinction from trademark and patents (Basic workshop only)
• Creative Rights – Time/Public Domain; Notice/Enforcement; Reproduction, Distribution, Display, Derivatives (Basic and Advanced workshops)
• License vs. Transfer of Copyright (Basic and Advanced workshops)
• Fair Use Concepts (3-hour presentations only)

Representative Venues

• Murray Harbour, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Florida Heritage Writers Conference
• Florida Storytellers Association Annual Storyfest
• Sanibel Library Winter Workshop Series
• Edison Inventors Association (Edison-Ford Winter Estates)
• Sun City Winter Speakers Series
• Zonta Club of Fort Myers
• Anna Marie Island Artist Guild
• Delta Sigma Theta Sorority 50th Anniversary Celebration (Fort Myers Alumnae Chapter: Copyright for Kids)

Description

Customizable for visual artists, writers, photographers, musicians, fine craft artists, educators, students. One, two or three hours available.

Includes:

• Definition and examples (Basic and Advanced)
• Current court cases (Basic and Advanced)
• Fair Use myths and fallacies (Basic and Advanced)
• Famous works and Fair Use (Advanced only)
• Song titles, quotations, and other common fair use issues (Advanced only)
• Satire, parody and the First Amendment (Advanced only)

Representative Venues

• Western States Arts Federation Conference, Denver, CO
• PubSmart National Conference for Emerging Authors and Emerging Avenues, Charleston, SC
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• National League of American PEN Women (various branches)
• Gulf Coast Writers Association
• Florida Watercolor Society Annual Conference
• Florida Association of Public Art Professionals Annual Conference
• Florida Gulf Coast University
• Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs
• Sarasota-Manatee Weavers Guild
• Brevard Watercolor Society
• Women’s Cultural Alliance Speaker Series for Artist-Entrepreneurs (Jewish Federation of Collier County)
• Hillsborough Historical Society

Description

Customizable for visual artists, writers, musicians, fine craft artists, educators, students. One, two or three hours available.

Includes:

• Scope – What are you giving up?
• Term – How long are you committed?
• Artist Control – What controls are you relinquishing?
• Creative Integrity – What is the priority?
• Structure of Financial issues – $$ goes without saying!
• Termination: Can you get out of an unsatisfactory deal?

Representative Venues

• National League of American Pen Women (various branches)
• Florida Movie Festival Conference, Daytona Beach
• Sanibel-Captiva Art League
• Greater Brandon Arts Council
• Fine Craft Guild of Southwest Florida
• Marco Island Writers Association
• Florida Writers Association Annual Conference

Description

Customizable for visual artists, writers, fine craft artists, students. One, two or three hours available. Can be a stand-alone workshop or blended into another extended workshop.

Includes:

• Commercial Misappropriation (right of publicity)
• Intrusion upon another’s seclusion
• Public disclosure os private facts
• Casting another in false light (libel)
• Libel by painting?
• Aesthetic censorship and the First Amendment
• Fictional characters and the law
• Memoirs and the law

Representative Venues

• Professional Photography Guild of the Palm Beaches
• Marco Island Writers Association
• Gulf Coast Writers Association
• Pine Island Writers
• Florida Writers Association Annual Conference

Description

Customizable for administrative and teaching personnel at public school, university, or post-university levels, as well as professional societies. Half-day and full day presentations available.

Includes:

• Inside and outside the Copyright Law
• Rights of educators under Copyright Law
• Fair Use issues unique to educators
• The TEACH Act and its ramifications
• Much more!

Representative Venues

• University of Tampa (private session)
• Florida Reading Association Annual Statewide Conference
• Florida Library Association Annual Conferences
• Florida Gulf Coast University (private session)
• American Society for Training and Development
• New York State Educational Media Technology Association
• Lee County School District Professional Development (various)
• Numerous NYS Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES)
• Various Educators’ Professional Development Workshops/Lectures

Description

Customizable for visual artists, writers, fine craft artists, students. One, two or three hours available. Can be a stand-alone workshop or blended into another extended workshop.

Includes:

• Ins, outs, pitfalls and rewards of licensing and selling your work
• Nuts and bolts information
• Art contracts and Internet piracy/Publishing contracts and Internet piracy
• Work-for-hire vs. commission
• Protection of work in estate planning and divorce scenarios

Representative Venues

• Florida Watercolor Society Annual Conference and Convention
• Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs, Florida
• Greater Pine Island Chamber of Commerce (benefit for re-building fund)
• Alliance for the Arts

Description

Customizable for hobby or professional photographers. One, two or three hours available. Can be a stand-alone workshop or blended into another extended workshop.

Includes:

• Invasion of privacy and releases (Basic)
• Commercial misappropriation (Basic and Advanced)
• Military exclusions (Basic and Advanced)
• Copyright protections (Basic and Advanced)
• Best Practices (Basic and Advanced)
• Legal Issues in Photographing in Public Places (Advanced only)
• Legal do’s and don’ts in national parks, state parks, and other areas of heightened concern (Advanced only)
• Contract protections (Advanced only)

Representative Venues

• Professional Photographers of Southwest Florida
• In One Instant Gallery of Photography
• Professional Photography Guild of the Palm Beaches

Description

Customizable for visual artists, writers, fine craft artists, photographers, educators, students and others. Five individual workshops of your choice. One, two or three hours per workshop available.

Representative Venues

• Naples Art Association
• Florida Gulf Coast University
• Florida Writers Association
• Alliance for the Arts

Description

Customized for visual artists, writers, fine craft artists, students. One hour (5 horror stories), two hour (8 horror stories) or three hour (10 horror stories) available. A potpourri of legal issues in an amusing format.

Includes:

• Ideas vs. Tangible Expression
• Hidden Copyright Dilemmas
• Much more!

Representative Venues

• Florida Watercolor Society Annual Convention
• Art Council of Southwest Florida
• Florida Writers Association (Youth Group)
• Florida Writers Association (Adults)

Additional workshops can be created upon request.

“Anne Dalton’s class is for anyone who is thinking of writing as well as the published author. She teaches her class in such a way it leaves you wanting more. I highly recommend this class to all writers, no matter where you are in the publishing process.”

“The evaluation sheets provide great feedback on the conference speakers. You have received a 4.98 out of a possible 5.0! Amazing score for an obviously excellent workshop.”

“Fantastic info. Very informative, made law easily understandable, excellent presentation, knowledgeable and helpful. Lots of useful facts I can use. A good conversational presentation. Helpful, clear and important. Very informative and caused me to think. Always attend Anne’s workshops each year. Good information on the legal aspects of the fine print. More, more, more please!”

“Comprehensive range of topics in an easy-to-understand manner. She’s a lovely person with great speaking skills.”

“Your crisp, entertaining style cut to the essentials and we needed that.”

“Your workshop ‘Invasion of Privacy and Defamation Issues for Writers’ held the rapt attention of nearly 100 writers. The talk was full of information about what writers should avoid in their work. She gave interesting examples of writers who ran into problems, were sued and/or lost friend because of indiscretions in what they wrote.”

“I enjoyed both of your lectures. As a consumer, I need what you offer. You bring intelligence, humor and common sense to a complicated subject.”

“Our members were enthralled with her vast knowledge, supported by clear, concise and user-friendly graphics to develop her main theme – PROTECT YOURSELF!. Anne’s style is folksy-professional where what you have learned creeps up on you so you say ‘wow, I know that now’ in such a short time. She is a delight and we want her back with another theme and topic. Anne is a real pro!”

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All material presented is educational only, does not constitute legal advice, and will not create an attorney-client relationship.

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