Creative Biz Law Manual

End-of-quarter review: open the mission doc, sort tasks by pillar, multiply hours × median freelance rate. Columns that don’t yield 1.5× their price tag receive nil budget next quarter. That prevents the task feed from swelling into a ego museum and compels each stroke to bankroll the master claim. Register Your Copyright Within 90 Days of First Publication to Secure Statutory Damages File online at <a href="https://Adly.pk/profile/hermelindabrig">generate direct link google Drive</a> before day 90: a $45–65 application (single work, single author) flips future infringement from "actual loss" to flat $750–30,000 per work, or up to $150,000 if you prove willfulness. Miss the window and you chase only provable lost sales–seldom more than a few hundred dollars. Issue W-2 wages equal to about four-tenths of net profit, but never dip below the SSA "safe-harbor" for your county—$48k for graphic artists in Travis County, TX in 2024. Remit payroll taxes solely on that slice; the leftover 55–65 % lands to you as K-1 dividends clear of the 15.3 % self-employment tax. A $100k profit saves roughly $9k a year. Convert Your Freelance Creative Income to an S-Corp to Slash Self-Employment Tax By the book Elect S-corp status the moment net self-employment earnings from design, music, photo or code exceeds $sixty grand. File Form 2553 inside 75 days of the kickoff of the tax year; late elections are permitted with Rev. Proc. 2013-30 relief if reasonable cause is attached. Pay the first $600 through payroll if the freelancer is U.S.-based–costs you 7.65% extra FICA but cements "employee" status under 17 U.S.C. §101(1). Foreign contractors: bolt on a 150-word "supplemental WMFH" paragraph that tracks U.S. language; most Berne nations recognize the concept when the contract seat is Delaware. Convert Feedback into a Personal Creative Brief System Scrape every line of critique–Slack thread–into solo plain-text file. Tag each fragment with a 2-word label: tone, structure, pace, color, typography, concept. After 48 hours you have a heat-map; any label appearing ≥4 times lands in Column A of a spreadsheet. sc stop GoogleDriveFS sc start GoogleDriveFS On Windows 11 with VBS enabled, add the folder to the bypass list of Windows Security → App & browser control → Check apps and files; VBS can keep directory handles for 30 s Substitute the current nameserver with 8.8.8.8 (first) and secondary Google DNS 8.8.4.4 (backup). On Windows, launch cmd as admin, run netsh interface ipv4 set dns name="Ethernet" static 8.8.8.8 afterwards netsh interface ipv4 add dns name="Ethernet" 8.8.4.4 index=2; exchange Ethernet for the active adapter name. Apple: networksetup -setdnsservers Wi-Fi 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4. GNU/Linux systemd-resolved: open /etc/systemd/resolved.conf to read DNS=8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 then systemctl restart systemd-resolved. Prompt Answer limit Scoring rule 1. Single sentence the finished piece must prove 25 words max Delete every scene/loop/verse that does not advance this exact sentence 2. Target reader & exact moment they will use it 15 words If you can’t name a real person, bin the draft 3. Metric that will spike within 7 days of release 1 number + unit (sales, installs, mailing-list adds…) No number = no milestone; park the file 4. Personal payoff once metric hits 10 words If the payoff is vague, the grind will stall again Price check: Quota Guard is $0 for the first five; Sheet2Site costs $0 because the sheet stays under the free tier; Make runs on the 100-task tier if you batch-verify the counter every 60 min instead of on every row. Execute fsck -fv /dev/sda1 on Ubuntu machines before enabling Mirror mode. A single lost inode prevents the database from mounting and triggers the red "Retry" banner for 48 h straight. After the check, rename drive_db to drive_db.bak, restart the daemon, and sync wraps up at 850 Mbit/s rather of 3 Mbit/s. Set the permission to Anyone with the link → Viewer before you copy; 73 % of failed corporate pitches trace back to "Request access" pop-ups that murder the vibe. Do it once, close the tab, and the address you just copied stays valid even after you rename the file tomorrow. <img src="https://images.radio-canada.ca/v1/ici-premiere/16x9/google-logo-justice-proces.jpg"; style="max-width:400px;float:right;padding:10px 0px 10px 10px;border:0px;" alt="" />Craft 5-motion micro-animation in After Effects → exported 1920×1080 .mov under 2 MB, plays on Chrome without frame drops Draft 500-word UX case study → scores ≥ 70 on Hemingway, receives 3 up-votes on Designer News Present 10-minute portfolio walkthrough → audience retention ≥ 80 % on Zoom replay, two recruiters request follow-up call Request a 30-minute calendar slot. Open with: "I will own the work; you supply critique and doors. Here is the contract." Hand over the PDF plus a Doodle link pre-loaded with 6 Tuesday 08:00 slots. Assign the correct MIME type before uploading: right-click → Manage versions → Upload new version with .zip, .mp3, .csv extensions intact. Drive guesses the type from the extension; a mismatched MIME causes some browsers to show preview instead of fetching the package.