PWPPA & Doug Cuthbertson: Ensure a Successful Foundation for your Photo Business

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Title: 

Ensure a Solid & Successful Foundation for your Photography Business: New Insights on Business Entities, Contracts, Copyrights, Model Releases, & Your Own Q&A!

Speakers: 

J. Douglas Cuthbertson
& Jeffrey N. Townes
Attorneys at Law

LECLAIRRYAN
Alexandria, Virginia
www.leclairryan.com

6:00 PM: Meet & Greet / Room Setup; 
7:00 PM: Program Starts; 
9:30 PM: End. 

Program Description: 

Doug Cuthbertson explains complex legal jargon in easy-to-understand language.  He's the most practical business attorney I have ever met.  Balancing legal decisions that will promote and ease the success of your business is Doug's forte.

Attend this event, come with your current questions, and learn business success secrets from a highly sought-after Washington attorney.

In addition, his partner, Jeff Townes, an attorney specializing in Intellectual Property (copyrights and patents) will also present and answer questions.

Don't rely on a non-attorney to give you answers to many critical questions that we, as photographers / business owners, face every day...

Do you have questions such as:

• What business type / entity should I form?  What forms do I need to file with county, state, and federal agencies?
• I'm a street photographer; do I need a model release from my "anonymous" subjects?  Is videography any different?
• What if I photograph a child with a parent attending a rally or visiting a monument in DC?  Is this situation different due to the child?
• My wedding couples sign a model release but what if other relatives / non-relatives appear in a feature image that I want to publish?
• What if a snow storm, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, terrorist threat, or breakup forces my client to cancel or change a wedding date?  What if I'm not available on their rescheduled date?
• What are the latest considerations for a model release agreement?
• How can I maintain my copyright even if I give my client the digital negatives or can I?
• What type of contract, if any, do I need with my second shooter?  [Please use the word "photographer", not "shooter".]
• Have more?  Please submit your questions in advance to Philip Brasch via his profile or email...

BIO, J. Douglas Cuthbertson

Mr. Cuthbertson is a Partner with LeClairRyan with a litigation practice focused on the finance, insurance, community associations and transportation industries.

Mr. Cuthbertson represents financial institutions in complex consumer financial services and banking litigation. His experience includes the defense of class action and single-plaintiff litigation involving federal consumer protection statutes such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Higher Education Act (HEA), and other state and federal consumer credit laws. He handles litigation involving contested foreclosures, TROs and injunctions, loan origination and servicing, identity theft, credit reporting, discharge of student loans, abusive collection practices and defamation. Additionally, Mr. Cuthbertson has testified before Congress and represented financial institutions before the U.S. Supreme Court on issues important to the finance industry.

Mr. Cuthbertson also has broad experience in business litigation, including disputes involving contracts, bankruptcy and creditors' rights, real estate, intellectual property, fraud, business conspiracy, interference with contractual relations and prospective business advantage, and unfair competition. In the community associations industry, he has represented real estate developers, property managers, service providers and homeowners' associations in litigation involving contract disputes, mechanic’s liens, business dispositions and collections and creditors' rights matters.

Mr. Cuthbertson also has a broad tort defense practice, representing individuals, businesses and insurance companies in civil litigation involving claims for negligence, premises liability, personal injury, transportation claims, motor vehicle accidents, emotional distress, trespass, conversion, fraud, defamation, and fire damage.

Contact Doug at www.leclairryan.com

BIO, Jeffrey N. Townes

Mr. Townes’s practice primarily focuses on counseling clients in the life sciences industry, including the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and material sciences industries. Representative clients include those with technology involving polymer chemistry (such as plastics, fibers, elastomers, and coatings and adhesives), organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry (including metathesis catalysts), nucleic acids (such as chemical modifications of oligonucleotides) and nanotechnology.

The breadth of Mr. Townes’s practice encompasses all major aspects of patent law. Working almost exclusively with domestic clients, Mr. Townes has extensive experience in patent preparation and procurement, including drafting of patent applications and prosecuting them at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has also worked with clients on various transactional aspects of patent law, such as conducting due-diligence projects, and the drafting and negotiating of assignments and licenses. Additionally, Mr. Townes frequently authors invalidity, noninfringement, and freedom-to-operate opinions for clients, and has become increasingly involved in interference practice, European oppositions, inventorship disputes, and patent infringement actions. 

Mr. Townes actively speaks at seminars on various topics relating to copyright and patent law, including events hosted by the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) and the American Chemical Society.

Contact Jeff at www.leclairryan.com

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PWPPA VA/DC Woodbridge, VA - Regular Monthly Photography Meeting

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Dear PWPPA Photographer Members:

I am pleased to introduce my wedding & portrait client and friend, Doug Cuthbertson, Attorney at Law, to present this special program tailored just for the photography business.  You won't want to miss this event! Doug tells me it'll be a 3 thumbs up! PWPPA continues to bring you the best professional speakers relevant to the photography industry in VA, DC, and MD!

Any professional photographer understands the focused investment of time and money needed to excel their work. PWPPA takes on numerous expenses on behalf of its members and is a non-profit. We take care of our speakers' expenses and honorarium by offering food, transportation, and lodging. We also will rent venue space for special events such as NY Fashion Photographer, Rick Guidotti, and purchase equipment for professional image competitions. (Currently, I loan my own LCD DLP projector at all events.)

As an association, collectively, we can offer you a better return on your total investment in your photography growth path. If you haven't joined, please join and invest this month for only $10.00 per month -- about one frozen latte at Starbucks! That's *less* than one day of lattes for some of you!

If you still don't like donating to take advantage of our benefits, think of your investment as buying our speaker a drink!  A definite fraction of the cost for two, that's 2, Washington, DC attorneys. Otherwise, the per-meeting rate is still a bargain at only $20 via PayPal.   JOIN NOW and SAVE 50% OFF the per meeting rate!

Please join us for an evening of great company and a premier level of learning that's only offered by PWPPA.

Best!
Philip

Philip Brasch, President & Founder
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