The Illustrators at the Guild (IAG) presents:

Licensing Your Art, With Special Guest Speaker Nina Edwards

Thursday, October 2, 2008, 6:30pm-9:00pm

Your intellectual property can earn you royalties. Licensing is a multi-billion dollar industry. You can make income from the same image over and over again by learning how to license your artwork, characters, and designs.

Nina Edwards will share her knowledge of and experiences with building licensing income.

Nina Edwards is an award-winning freelance illustrator. She has illustrated many fashion and lifestyle books and magazines, including Seventeen, Cosmo Girl, Girls' Life, Bridal Guide, and American Baby magazines.

She has also licensed her illustrations to US and international paper products companies, including Madison Park Greetings, the Gift wrap company, and Target. You can also find her illustrations on your cell phone: she licenses wallpapers to Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint.

She is a guest speaker at various art schools and international art organizations in US and Asia, including Parsons School of Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, the Art Institute of New York City, Columbia University, the Graphic Artists Guild, the Society of Children's Book Illustrator's Group, and Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (Taiwan).

You can see her illustrations and designs on her two websites:
www.portfolios.com/ninaedwards
www.metropolitanmiss.com

ATTENDANCE IS LIMITED TO 20!
Advance registration is recommended.

EVENT LOCATION
Graphic Artists Guild offices
32 Broadway, Suite 1114, NY, NY
Directions by subway: 2,3 to Wall St.; 4,5 to Bowling Green.

REGISTRATION:

Fax to: 212-791-0333
Email to: ny@gag.org
Phone in: 212.791.3400 x11
Snail Mail to: Graphic Artists Guild Of New York, 32 Broadway, Suite 1114, NY, NY 10004

IN ADVANCE
$5 Graphic Artist Guild members and students*
$10 non-members
AT THE DOOR:
$10 Graphic Artist Guild members and students*
$15 non-members
*Students must show current school ID

Event: Licensing Your Art, with special guest speaker Nina Edwards
Location: Graphic Artists Guild, 32 Broadway, Suite 1114, NY, NY

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RSVP to gerardlilavois@gmail.com by Oct. 1 and Photo ID required for entrance to building.

Conquering Confusing Contracts & Copyrights

With Tad Crawford

Thursday, September 18

7:00-9:00PM

Pratt Institute

Manhattan Campus

144 West 14th Street,

Room 213

If contracts or legal issues have you frustrated, then this Seminar is for you!

The knowledge and use of good business practices is an essential step for any professional or company, including the graphic designer, design firm, illustrator and graphic art specialist. Come hear Tad Crawford, author and attorney, speak on the subject of contract basics. Gain valuable insights into what are the elements of a valid contract. Learn basic contract terminology. Different types of contracts will be discussed and the remedies available to an injured party for a breach of contract.

This seminar will cover:

• How to write and understand a contract

• How to negotiate and protect your copyrights

• Understand and protect yourself from work for hire

• When to get a lawyer involved

• Steps to take to protect yourself and your business

Don’t miss this opportunity to get the answers to your contract questions that will help protect you and your business.

Tad Crawford, President and Publisher for Allworth Press in New York City, graduated from Columbia Law

School, clerked on New York State’s highest court, and served as General Counsel for the Graphic Artists

when he actively practiced as an attorney. Author or co-author of Legal Guide for the

Visual Artist, The Graphic Design Business Book, Business and Legal Forms for Illustrators,

and Business and Legal Forms for Graphic Designers, he is Legal Affairs Editor for

Communication Arts

REGISTRATION---Fax: 212-791-0333 OR Email: ny@gag.org-- Phone: 212.791.3400 x11

MAIL WITH PAYMENT TO:GRAPHIC ARTISTS GUILD OF NEW YORK
32 Broadway, Suite 1114, NY, NY 10004

WORKSHOP/CLASS:_____________________________________

$20 mem--$35 non-mem--$5 Student mem--$10 Seniors*

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Tamara Hall

Graphic Artists Guild

NY Chapter Administrator

212-791-3400 x11

***RSVP with FIRST AND LAST NAMES no later than Tuesday***

VERY important extra message below, please read this entire page!

6/25/08, Guild office, 6:30pm
Let's try our 1st Digital Media portfolio night. Other Guild committees do this now & then, why not us? Bring your portfolios, sketchbooks and/or URLs since we'll have a laptop and projector for browsing websites. We'll have snacks & beverages. We can look at each other's stuff, ask for critiques if we're in the mood, discuss anything.

Since we already had 3 yes RSVPS before I wrote the above, we can still spend some time doing what follows below:

Dale of DaleGladstone.com will demonstrate Alias Sketchbook Pro by Autodesk on the Tablet PC. Sketchbook is a fun, affordable program similar to photoshop. It's useful to a lot of different people and compatible with any Wacom Tablet user or Tablet PC user. The Tablet PC is also something you can rarely get your hands on to try out before buying. If there is interest, we can also look at using Sketchbook files in Photoshop & Illustrator.

Snacks & beverages will be served.

GRAPHIC ARTISTS GUILD OF NEW YORK
32 Broadway, Suite 1114, NY, NY 10004

PS!!!
Copyright laws are on the brink of extinction.
Copyright protection for anyone writing, drawing, inventing or creating anything is under attack in the US Senate. Please write to your US Senators at this link:
http://capwiz.com/gag/issues/alert/?alertid=11396676&queueid=2005917906
? and ask them to protect copyright laws.
To learn more about this issue, you can start looking here:
The Graphic Artists Guild
http://www.gag.org/activities/Orphan_Works.php
My comments are below:
My name is _________________. I am a _______________working in ____________, ___. I am opposed to the Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008, S. 2913 unless it can be amended to protect visual creators and to include, at a minimum, a publicly accessible ?notice of use? filing.
This is an inexpensive and effective way to allow creators to identify themselves as copyright owners so that creators may preserve their legal ownership rights. It also eliminates the ability to make fraudulent claims of conducting a diligent search for copyright owners.
If the bill cannot be amended then I urge you to vote NO.
I am a member of The Graphic Artists Guild.
I would like to remind everyone this country's founding fathers established strong patent & copyright laws because they understood the need for incentives to drive commerce. There is almost no kind of business or trade on the face of the earth which can operate without the contributions of inventors, writers, designers & artists. There is a terrible trend in corporate culture to eliminate fair compensation for creative work. The result is a society full of intelligent people who increasingly will not create anything because they know they will only be ripped off by the big guys. This is why good writing is rapidly disappearing from book shelves, music, television, films & theater. This is why artwork in books, magazines, ads & packaging is getting cruder, uglier and less inspired. This is in large part why our civilization is simply decaying into a vulgar, ignorant mess.
If only we could hope someday to see this is not to be the American way.
- Dale Gladstone

***RSVP with FIRST AND LAST NAMES no later than Tuesday***

VERY important extra message below, please read this entire page!

Dale of DaleGladstone.com will demonstrate Alias Sketchbook Pro by Autodesk on the Tablet PC. Sketchbook is a fun, affordable program similar to photoshop. It's useful to a lot of different people and compatible with any Wacom Tablet user or Tablet PC user. The Tablet PC is also something you can rarely get your hands on to try out before buying. If there is interest, we can also look at using Sketchbook files in Photoshop & Illustrator.

Snacks & beverages will be served.

GRAPHIC ARTISTS GUILD OF NEW YORK
32 Broadway, Suite 1114, NY, NY 10004

PS!!!
Copyright laws are on the brink of extinction.
Copyright protection for anyone writing, drawing, inventing or creating anything is under attack in the US Senate. Please write to your US Senators at this link:
http://capwiz.com/gag/issues/alert/?alertid=11396676&queueid=2005917906
... and ask them to protect copyright laws.
To learn more about this issue, you can start looking here:
The Graphic Artists Guild
http://www.gag.org/activities/Orphan_Works.php
My comments are below:
My name is _________________. I am a _______________working in ____________, ___. I am opposed to the Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008, S. 2913 unless it can be amended to protect visual creators and to include, at a minimum, a publicly accessible ?notice of use? filing.
This is an inexpensive and effective way to allow creators to identify themselves as copyright owners so that creators may preserve their legal ownership rights. It also eliminates the ability to make fraudulent claims of conducting a diligent search for copyright owners.
If the bill cannot be amended then I urge you to vote NO.
I am a member of The Graphic Artists Guild.
I would like to remind everyone this country's founding fathers established strong patent & copyright laws because they understood the need for incentives to drive commerce. There is almost no kind of business or trade on the face of the earth which can operate without the contributions of inventors, writers, designers & artists. There is a terrible trend in corporate culture to eliminate fair compensation for creative work. The result is a society full of intelligent people who increasingly will not create anything because they know they will only be ripped off by the big guys. This is why good writing is rapidly disappearing from book shelves, music, television, films & theater. This is why artwork in books, magazines, ads & packaging is getting cruder, uglier and less inspired. This is in large part why our civilization is simply decaying into a vulgar, ignorant mess.
If only we could hope someday to see this is not to be the American way.
- Dale Gladstone

Building Your Online Presence with Raj Moorjani, calpaq.us

***RSVP with first AND LAST NAMES mandatory***

With the changing nature of technology and the internet you can get lost among the millions of websites out there. So how do you get noticed online? Join our discussion for some of the fastest, most effective, and inexpensive ways to build a stronger online presence using tools like blogs, email, podcasts. Learn how to take advantage of social networking sites like MySpace, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube. Also find out how it helps your search engine placement.

Snacks & beverages will be served.

Don't miss out. I've learned a LOT of indispensable stuff from Raj & other Guild members, stuff that has really helped me a lot in surviving as an artist.