On November 28, 2011 U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Garbis conditionally certified a settlement class of about 8,500 people in Maryland and D.C. in a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act case filed by Thomas Minton and co-counsel Bernard Kennedy of The Kennedy Law Firm. The case arises from a form collection letter sent by a Maryland law firm to people who owed money to credit card issuers, banks, and other consumer lenders. In its standard collection letter, the law firm informed the consumers that they had overdue “balances” that included legal costs and fees.
In a recent article in a trade magazine, rental car operations managers offered some wild stories about their worst clean-up jobs: maggots, deer parts, boa constrictors, human blood, rodents, urine, dead fish. Of course, rental cars are known for “hard use;” that is, the cars’ drivers have little or no concern for wear and tear and they drive the cars accordingly.
Dennis Simon, an automotive artist of international reputation and local roots, will be showing his work in the Goldman & Minton Gallery from September 17 until October 16, 2009. Simon began his career in art when he received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1969. Simon’s interest in cars goes back almost as far as his interest in art. He remembers drawing girls for a short time before he began filling school notebooks with car sketches.
Artists create. To live well and prosper, artists must sell what they create. Selling art can be as painstaking as creating it. Therefore, many successful artists enlist the help of professionals to tend to the selling details. Other artists handle the business details themselves.
Artists need to protect themselves and their art to profit from it. Whether an artist sells a single piece, works with an agent or licenses work for mass production, there are business decisions that need to be made. Here are 10 basic business considerations for artists.
