Posts by jason_kraft

It might help if you shared the original design (with your feedback to the designer) along with the revised design. How much did she bill you for?

Do you have a cottage food law that allows home-based baking businesses? If not, I recommend contacting your local health dept about this person's business, you will be doing both of you a favor.

Quote:Originally Posted by JSKConfections Maybe a blog right on CC?  I put together a quick experimental blog in WordPress (the link is in my signature) so we'll see how that goes.

We itemize the smash cake separately based on the cost of making the cake, just like any other product.

I actually started working on a book about allergy-friendly baking including recipes for different combinations of allergies, how we structured our baking processes to avoid cross-contamination, business tips specific to that market,...

For a d/b/a filing the corporate status is irrelevant, it is just a trade name that is owned by either an individual or a corporate entity.

Actually it looks like a d/b/a may not even protect your name within the same county, it's not clear if an application with the same name as a d/b/a would be rejected or if the onus is on the applicant to do a search first. If you...

Quote:Originally Posted by BakerBee7468 say someone else comes up with my name or something similar either in my city/state or elsewhere in the country and they trademark theirs, does that mean i'd have to stop using mine even if i...

Quote:Originally Posted by Annabakescakes No! Really??? I mean they are free to look at, no one is charging admission to veiw the photos, rather than paying to go to Disney Land, is what I mean. Or selling the pictures of cakes as...

Interesting information about the compulsory license. It seems like it only covers the musical composition of a work and not the sound recording itself though, so you would be able to record your own performance of someone else's...