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Kelley Way has been creating blog posts across many topics of Estate Planning, Copyright and Trademark law. If you have a topic or question you’d like covered, reach out to Kelley Way here.
What Happens to My Royalties After I Die?
Ongoing royalty revenues are the dream of every author, musician, and movie director. And those royalty revenues are even sweeter if you don’t have to put any effort into marketing the work yourself. But if this dream is achieved, it also creates a problem for the...
Estate Planning Horror Stories: Celebrity Edition
It's been a long time since I last posted on estate planning horror stories that affect contemporary celebrities. An update is long overdue, so let me share what's been happening in some of the estates I discussed in my previous article. After five years of fighting...
How Long Does Copyright Last
I am often asked the question, how long does copyright last? This comes up especially when the person is considering protecting their legacy through an estate plan. Copyright duration also comes up when someone is considering using another person’s content and wants...
5 Common Estate Planning Mistakes
If you’ve already created your estate plan (i.e. a will and trust, plus a few other documents), then you’re ahead of most of the American population. However, things can still go wrong, even when you’ve created a proper estate plan. Here are a five common estate...
Using Other People’s Content in Your Marketing
You found a great photo online that would be perfect for your upcoming social media campaign. And you also saw a fantastic article on a lawyer's website that you could totally repurpose for your newsletter. There is so much interesting and useful content on the...
What does funding my trust mean?
If you've worked with a lawyer to create a trust, you've probably heard this term before. "Funding your trust" is a common refrain for estate planning lawyers, mainly because so many clients fail to take this crucial step, creating problems for their poor trustee to...
AI and Copyright Update
I wrote about the issues surrounding AI and copyright law a few months ago, but as with any new and exciting technology, the landscape is changing rapidly, so I felt an AI and Copyright update is in order. In my previous article, I discussed whether AI-generated...
Five Things to Consider When Creating Your Own Will or Trust
My process is pretty straightforward when people come to me to create a will and/or trust. I present them with an intake sheet, which asks all the questions I need answered to create their will and trust (yes, it's a lot of pages). I try to get all the decision-making...
Part 2: Fair Use Revisited
Last month I told you about the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Lynn Goldsmith, the Supreme Court case that is said to be a game changer for fair use. I'll end the suspense this month and tell you what happened at the Supreme Court in my exciting...