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September 2023
Read the September 2023 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • Presidential Address
  • Canada Extends Copyright Protection
  • Copyright Rules Around the World
  • Staff Updates
  • Recent Projects
December 2022

Read the December 2022 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • Presidential Address
  • The Thirty-three Year View
  • New Requests for Audio Only Work
  • New Staff Feature – What’s it like to learn this job?
  • Recent Projects
December 2021
Read the December 2021 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • (Script) Clearance Reports…Not for Documentary
  • 555 numbers revisited
  • Sound trademarks
  • Public buildings on screen
  • Recent Projects
February 2021
Read the February 2021 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • In memoriam: Kellam de Forest
  • Thoughts about script clearances in the writers’ room
  • The many conversations around tattoos and who holds the rights
  • Recent Projects
June 2020

Read the June 2020 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • “As Produced” Clearance Reports
  • Conversation with Lesley Myers: Production Clearance and Research Services
  • Bad Research
  • Recent Projects
March 2020

Read the March 2020 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • We’ll tell you “what’s in a name”…
  • A front row on the E&O process
  • Eastern’s been talking all winter
  • Recent Projects
December 2019

Read the December 2019 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • 2020: Open for business!
  • Cheaper while it snows
  • Setting up a title search
  • Title search: recipe ingredients
  • Recent Projects
August 2019

Read the August 2019 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • Currency use revisited
  • We don’t make this stuff up (compliments)
  • Kids’ animation, that must be fun and easy for you!
  • Legal Cut Pro podcast
  • Recent Projects
December 2018

Read the December 2018 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • What is this thing called?
  • Can we say this?
  • No pre-cleared stuff
  • Happy Birthday revisited
  • Recent Projects
August 2018

August 2018 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • Animation, a slightly different beast
  • Birthday time, a big one
  • Settings: things to consider
  • Webseries – planning ahead for clearances
  • We’re on Twitter
  • Recent Projects
January 2018

January 2018 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • Gummy Bears
  • Surprising Brand Names List
  • Not Clear
  • Get The Basics
  • Statute of Anne
  • Recent Projects
Summer 2017

Summer 2017 Newsletter »

Includes: 

  • do we do copyright searching?
  • more clearance history: War of the Worlds
  • now floating on a cloud
  • who is Lolly Gasaway?
  • recent work
Winter 2017

Winter 2017 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • new toll-free phone number
  • new and good U.S. $ movie rates
  • fine art on screen
  • some interesting © links
  • artwork on wardrobe
  • our stolen identity
  • helpful cups of coffee
  • recent work
Summer 2016

Summer 2016 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • new Academy member
  • price cut on movies
  • Olympics on-screen
  • protected food names
  • our friend TESS
  • more on “get what you pay for”
  • recent work
Spring 2016

Spring 2016 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • articles pages overhaul
  • happy birthday – the saga continues
  • summer madness
  • CFC and NSI
  • recent work
Winter 2016

Winter 2016 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • block shooting
  • books as props
  • reality triangle
  • happy birthday – free at last
  • Star Wars. Have you heard of it?
  • website updates and some FAQ checking
  • recent work
June 2015

June 2015 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • animation updates
  • back in time with name clearing
  • current bench depth = 95
  • fictional phone #’s
  • strategies for alternatives
March 2015

March 2015 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • a public domain comic book?
  • even better title searches
  • get the “Basics”
  • easy to order!
  • what is right of publicity?
September 2014

September 2014 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • is it generic or is it a brand?
  • website has had some tweaks
  • how to build a clearance report
  • featured bookmarks
  • recent projects
June 2014

June 2014 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • wondering about license plates?
  • the early days of title searches
  • recent project notes
  • some fun bookmarks
November 2013

November 2013 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • twenty years old!
  • the legal artist website – excellent resource
  • risks and rights in early 20th century
  • UCLA publication of interview with Anne Marie
Spring 2013

Spring 2013 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • new brochure
  • featured article on children’s programming
  • staff notes
  • clearances “how-to” article
Winter 2013

Winter 2013 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • UCLA doctoral work on clearance history
  • new “incoming” e-mail address
  • link to article about student films
  • notes on recent projects
Fall 2012

Fall 2012 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • migrating from old server to new one
  • farewell to a loved researcher
  • our mad crazy rolodex
  • NANPA (North American Numbering Plan Administration)
  • the fictional phone number
Spring 2012

Spring 2012 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • brand name contact information resources
  • intern from Queen’s University
  • new staff member on board
  • recent client projects
  • title search opinions – a change in Canada
  • unique collection: ” clear alts “
Fall 2011

Fall 2011 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • insights on prop guns and how they are “cleared”
  • referral to desktop search indexing software
  • office consolidation
  • background on staff members
  • new teaching gig
  • e&o staledating
Spring 2011

Spring 2011 Newsletter »

Includes:

  • on–screen currency use guidelines
  • announcement of our newly–designed website
  • the newly–added FAQ page
  • French language services
  • new junior researcher on staff
  • briefly noted recent client projects
  • a lambasting of our industry!

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