Useful Links

Art Law Links
Government Offices
Journals and Publications
Music Resources
National Arts Organizations
Nonprofit Issues and Resources
Performance Arts Resources
Visual Arts Resources
Writers and Literary Arts Resources

Art Law Links

• American Council of the Arts - The nation's leading non-profit organization for advancing the arts in America.
• ArtSource - A gathering point for networked resources on art and architecture.
• Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency - A not-for-profit agency established by Canadian publishers and creators to license public access to copyright works.
• Fair Use - This site is intended to offer the public useful information surrounding fair use.
• Federal Citizen Information Center - This website provides useful information about the federal government and everyday consumer issues.
• FedWorld Information Network - This network provides a gateway to federal information.
• Graphic Artists Guild/Boston Chapter - The Graphic Artists Guild provides a direct connection to other local artists providing networking opportunities and more.
• Hieros Gamos on Art Law - Hieros Gamos provides a worldwide legal directory.
• Hollywood.Net - The Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards were created to bridge the gap between Hollywood and the global creative community.
• Institute of Art and Law - The Institute of Art and Law is a small independent research and educational organization, which analyzes the interface between the world of art and antiquties and that of law.
• Internet for the Fine Arts - d'ART is a marketplace and community of fine artists and dealers.
• Japanese Intellectual Property Information - A useful website that offers extensive information on Intellectual Property in Japan
• Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation - Estate Planning legal guide for artists.
• MicroPatent - The world's leading source for online patent and trademark information.
• New York Foundation for the Arts - A creative development corporation, helping the arts to flourish in New York and nationally.
• Patent Law Materials - This website provides an overview on patent law.
• Thomson & Thomson - This law firm's website provides useful information and research on trademarks law.
• U.S. Copyright Law - Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright code.
• U.S. Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Information - Franklin Pierce Law School website, which provides useful information on Intellectual Property.
• Free Patent Search Engine - This website is a free search engine for searching registered US patents.
• U.S. Small Business Administration - This website was designed to aid, counsel, assist, and protect the interests of small business concerns.
• Vanguard Investments - This website provides useful information about retirement investing, mutual fund, IRA's, etc.
• World Intellectual Property Organization - This organization was designed to promote the protection of IP throughout the world through cooperation among states in conjunction with other international organizations.

Government Offices

• Canadian Intellectual Property Office - The Canadian Intellectual Property Office is responsible for the administration and processing of the greater part of Intellectual Property in Canada.
• City of Philadelphia - This website provides useful information about the city of Philadelphia.
• European Patent Office - The European Patent Office grants European patents for the contracting states to the European Convention.
• Internal Revenue Service - Useful tax information available at this website.
• New Jersey Taxation - This website provides tax information on New Jersey.
• Pennsylvania Taxation - This website provides tax information on Pennsylvania.

Journals and Publications

• Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal - This journal publishes articles discussing current issues in arts, entertainment, sports, and all other intellectual property law issues.
• Columbia Law Review - This journal is a leading publication of legal scholarship.
• DePaul-LCA Journal of Art and Entertainment Law - This website offers informative information on art and entertainment law.
• Fordham: Intellectual Property Law Journal - Fordham Law School's law journal offers articles on patent, copyright, and trademark law.
• FPLC - The Intellectual Property Law Review - Franklin Pierce's law journal offers articles on patent, copyright, and trademark law.
• Hasting Communications and Entertainment Law Journal - This journal covers the rubric of communications, entertainment, and intellectual property law.
• John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law - This journal is dedicated to international technology law.
• Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review - This journal was one of the first journals to use interactive media to promote informed discourse about the interrelated legal, social, business, and public policy issues raised by emerging technologies.
• Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal - This journal offers discourse in the area of Intellectual Property and technology-related law.
• UCLA Bulletin of Law and Technology - This journal is dedicated to producing literature concerning not only hard IP, but all Intellectual Property that is at the forefront of technology, academia, society, and innovation.
• Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal - This journal is dedicated to publishing scholarly articles on topics in the sports and entertainment law field.

Music Resources

• ASCAP - This website provides news and resources from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
• Band Register - Bandname.com was established in 1997, and it serves as a tool for the registration of band names.
• Berne Convention - This website offers information on international copyright protection.
• BMI - Licensing information, events, and general information is given about the Performing Rights Organization, Broadcast Music, Inc.
• The Business of Promoting Independent Music - This website offers a variety of information and links to resources regarding talent agencies, web hosting, and other how-to's for the music business.
• Copyright Society of the U.S.A. - This website works to advance the study and understanding of copyright law and related rights, the scope of rights in literature, music, art, etc., and their distribution via both traditional and new media.
• Copyright Website - This website provides a copyright portal providing real world (and some whimsical) copyright information.
• Doing it Yourself: A Guide to Making Music - This website provides a guide to making music from building a stuido to marketing and promotion.
• The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (Mechanical Rights Collection Agency) - Information on mechanical licensing, distribution, and collection is provided.
• Kohn on Music Licensing - This website provides free information regarding Copyright Law and Licensing Music for use and distribution over the World Wide Web.
• MAS: Musicians Assistance Site - General information is given focusing on touring and promotion, record labels, and pressing and printing.
• National Music Publishers Association - A Music Publishing 101 section gives general information about copyright and the legal issues to consider for publishers of music.
• The Recording Website - This website provides members and visitors answers to recording questions by home and project recording musicians and recordists.
• Sample Music Contracts - This website provides free music business contracts created by an entertainment law firm.
• SESAC - This website provides general information about this Performing Rights Organization, and it gives general licensing, publishing, and current events information.
• The Ultimate Band List - This website serves as a tool for unsigned bands, their fans, and industry managers who want to discover them.
• Universal Copyright Convention - This website offers information to ensure in all countries copyright protection of literary, scientific, and artistic works.

National Arts Organizations

• American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) - AFTRA's website provides news for both members and non-members with special attention to new legislation affecting artists' rights.
• American Film Institute (AFI) - This website gives information on screen education and recognizes excellence in the art of film.
• Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) committed to supporting the careers of craft artists throughout the United States
• Music Publishers' Association of the U.S. (MPA) - News pertaining to publishers, dealers, music educators, and general users of music is provided on this website.
• National Academy of Recording Arts And Sciences (NARAS) - News about the Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy, and current news are featured on this website.
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) - The NEA website provides information on applying for grants and general news about arts advocacy.
• Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) - General information about copyright, freedom of speech, anti-piracy laws, and current events are highlighted.

Nonprofit Issues and Resources

• Answers.com - This website provides general information regarding nonprofit organizations, including but not limited to tax matters.
• Arts Marketing - This website offers nonprofit organizations the ability to address their daily marketing needs and longer-term marketing issues.
• Catalog for Philanthropy - donor-friendly taxonomy of charities
• The Chronicle of Philanthropy - This newspaper is the number one news source, in print and online, for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people involved in the philanthropic enterprise.
• Energize, Inc. - Energize, Inc. is an international training, consulting, and publishing firm specializing in volunteerism.
• Idealist.org - This website provides opportunities to network with other nonprofit organizations, and list any volunteer or internship opportunities.
• National Center for Nonprofit Boards - This website offers ways to increase the strength of boards of directors through their consulting practice, publications, tools, and membership program.
• National Council of Nonprofit Associations - This website links local organizations to a national audience, which helps small to midsize nonprofit organizations manage and lead more effectively.
• Nonprofit Issues - Nonprofit Issues is a national web newsletter. This site offers the opportunity to subscribe, search the article archives, and purchase books pertaining to nonprofit legal issues.
• Points of Light Foundation - This foundation engages and mobilizes millions of volunteers who are helping to solve serious social problems in thousands of communities.
• The Society For Nonprofit Organizations - This website provides products and services to nonprofit groups to help them accomplish their missions more effectively.
• Volunteer Today - This website is an e-newsletter for those who manage the work of volunteers in nonprofit, government, or corporate programs.

Performance Art Resources

• Cast Us! - This website allows users to create anad manage a page builder displaying resumes, photos, and videos, in conjunction with talent agencies having the ability to view these pages.
• City Sites - This website offers filmmakers the ability to distribute his or her short films via international private and public screenings.
• Dance Links - This website offers a listing of various dance links that range from ballet to modern dance listings.
  Actors' Equity Association - This website seeks to advance and promote live theatre by negotiating wages and benefits for its members.
• The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. - This website provides useful information about Broadway in general, but also what negotiations are handled for its members.
• Playbill Online - This website offers news and listings for Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional productions, and informative features about every aspect of theatre.
• Screen Actors Guild (SAG) - SAG is the nation's largest labor union representing working artists.

Visual Arts Resources

• American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) - ASMP is the premier resource for community, culture, commerce, and publications relating to publication photographers worldwide.
• Crafts Fair Online - This website is the oldest and largest craft directory online.
• Design Training - A great resource for researching design schools across the country
• Directors' Guild of America (DGA) - This website was designed to keep viewers updated regarding the latest issues of the DGA, and offer various tools, i.e. membership options, sample contracts, etc.
• Fine Arts Trade - This website specializes in art trade, and allows one to estimate, buy, or sell his or her fine arts online.
• George Eastman House - This website offers viewers links to the world's leading collections of photography and film that are collected and interpreted individually.
• Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA) - IFTA is a nonprofit association that actively lobbies the United States and European governments and international organizations on measures that impact production and distribution.
• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) - MPLC is an independent copyright licensing agency that provides the Umbrella License to ensure copyright compliance for the public performance of motion pictures.
• Photo.net - This webpage is an online community that provides a peer-to-peer educational system for people who wish to become better photographers.
• Printmakers Organziations - This website provides useful links to various printing sources.
• World Wide Arts Resources - This website is the largest site for contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist, and gallery portfolios.

Writers and Literary Arts Resources

• The Authors Registry - The Authors Registry is a nonprofit organization formed to help expedite the flow of royalty payments and small reuse fees to authors, particularly for new media uses.
• National Writers Union (NWU) - The NWU is the trade union for freelance and contract writers.
• Planetcartoonist.com - This website offers the most valuable resource for amateur and professional cartoonists around the world.
• Poets and Writers - Poets and writers is the largest nonprofit literary organization that serves poets, fiction writers, and creative non-fiction writers.
• Publisher's List - This website provides links to various Publishers within the United States and outside the Country.
• Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) - The WGAE, along with WGAW, works to help screenwriters register his or her literary works.
• Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) - The WGAW is the world's leading screenplay registration service.
• Writer's Resource Center - This website provides news, articles, information, and job opportunities for writers.
• Writing.com - This website provides writers the ability to store and display his or her masterpieces.