Sarah Feingold: Attorney and Jeweler

Legal Issues for Visual Artists: Copyright and Intellectual Property


Seminar Overview:

When you create a piece of artwork, you may automatically have intellectual property rights to certain design elements. Attorney and jeweler, Sarah Feingold, will provide you with helpful information concerning the types of intellectual property protection available to artists, how to obtain this protection and the rights you should take advantage of even if you choose to take no formal action to protect your intellectual property.

The seminar is around an hour long. A PowerPoint presentation will be used to illustrate the topics. Each attendee will receive a copy of the presentation and additional information including a form for obtaining U.S. copyright registration for a group of artwork.

Topic's Covered:

  • Intellectual property
  • Infringement
  • Copyright
  • Idea versus expression
  • Trademark
  • Patent
  • Design patent
  • Contract
  • Trade secret
  • Do nothing?

  • Testimonials:

    "Dear Sarah, I want to thank you for presenting your lecture: Legal and Copyright Issues for Artists to the staff of Studio 34 Creative Arts Center. This is a timely topic, and rather complex to those of us without legal background. You organized a lot of information and presented it very clearly. Again, thank you for providing this needed information to our staff, and doing so in such a clear, concise and informative way."
    ~ Marilynne Lipshutz

    "I wanted to THANK YOU so sincerely for your excellent presentation to our young people! It was clear how much time and effort you put into it and I loved the songs. I was just telling someone about that the other day and I can honestly say that I personally learned a lot. Other artists said the same. THANKS again, Sarah! I admire you and all you do as an artist-lawyer!"
    ~ Kristin Rapp, ArtPeace


    Upcoming Seminars:

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    Previous Seminars:

  • New Jersey, January 17, 2008.

  • Bead Society of New Jersey

  • New York, New York, November 28, 2007.

  • The Bead Society of Greater New York

  • Rochester, New York, November 18, 2007.

  • Studio 34
    34 Elton Street
    Rochester, New York 14607

  • Brooklyn, New York, October 4, 2007.

  • Etsy Labs

  • Rochester, New York, August, 13, 2007.
    ArtPeace

  • Brooklyn, New York, July 28, 2007.

  • Etsy Labs

  • Fort Worth, Texas, April 15, 2007.

  • International Society of Appraisers Conference

  • Rochester, New York, March 12, 2007.

  • Studio 34

  • Syracuse, New York, November 2, 2006.

  • Syracuse University



    Sarah wrote an eBook on the topic of intellectual property rights of visual artists.

    For more information, or to schedule Sarah to present a seminar near you, e-mail Sarah at FeingoldJewelry@gmail.com.


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