Copyrights, Contracts, & Guidelines for Dinosaur Artists & Paleontologists

Contents		Cover Introduction by Peter Dodson, Vice President, The Dinosaur Society Foreward
Part 1 Copyrights		What the Law Actually Says Registration of Copyright: Keeping Your Protection Defining Infringement and Fair Use Works for Hire Joint Works Electronic Copyrights and Pitfalls in the Digital Domain Making this a Profession; The Business of Art Your Life’s Work; Contracts, Intellectual Property, and the Artist’s Estate
Part 2 Contracts		The Importance of Contracts and Negotiation Negotiation tools: the Telephone and Fax Machine Copyright Acknowledgement Form The Letter Contract Parts of a Contract Form of Agreement Book Publishing Contracts for Artists and Paleontologists What They Send You; What You Send Them Television and Film Contracts Paleoartists: Working in Film and Television by William Stout Gallery-artist agreement Travelling show agreement Sales of original work Copyright sales A bit of copyright weirdness Lecture contract Museum bid Museum contract Museum partial payment invoice CD-rom, the net, and new technologies
Part 3 Pricing guidelines		Working for free Fear of pricing Commissioned work, publisher Commissioned work, collector Commissioned work, museum exhibit Lecture fees Commissioned work, electronic media Toys and games Relicensing of images, publisher Relicensing of images, electronic media Relicensing of images, museum exhibit Relicensing of images, foreign (direct deposit of fees and taxes)
Part 4 Ethical guidelines		Joint Ethics Committee Code of Fair Practice for Artists VARA (Visual Artist’s Rights Act)
Appendix		A Note about The Dinosaur Society in Support of Dinosaur Artists Selected Bibliography
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