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California Artist Gallery Lawyer Sebastian Gibson, The Right Choice in Business

When you’ve poured your blood, sweat and tears, and years of your life into building up your business, finding the right California Artist Gallery Lawyer to protect it is the best way to ensure all your efforts are not in vain.

Whether you need contracts drafted, copyright or trademark protection, representation in litigation, corporate formation, restructuring or dissolution, or simply down to earth business advice, you deserve the finest in legal service.

California Artist Gallery Lawyer Sebastian Gibson offers business owners with more than 40 years of representing business and corporate clients and is ready today to assist you today in your endeavors to grow and prosper without legal worries.

When you work with California Artist Gallery Lawyer Sebastian Gibson, you’re working with an attorney who has been named a Top Lawyer in the prestigious Palm Springs Life Magazine year after year, and who’s been named a “Superb” Lawyer, their highest rating, by Avvo, which rates attorneys all across the U.S. Sebastian Gibson is one of those rare attorneys with experience not only representing small and medium sized businesses in California, but a lawyer who has also represented multi-national corporations internationally as well while working in London.

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At some point in an artist’s life, they begin to have legal questions about how they can protect their works.   We can answer these questions and not only protect your works but also to avoid unnecessary problems that can arise so you can focus your attention on your art and not on legal disputes in California, elsewhere in the U.S. or internationally that can affect your creative free spirit.

As an artist, you want to know your work is safe when it’s being exhibited in a gallery or a museum.  Without the right legal agreements, it may be unclear who will be responsible if your art work is damaged or lost.  We can help avoid such issues by drafting and negotiating the right terms of your agreements with galleries, purchasers, auction houses, other exhibition locations and anyone else with whom you come into contact in the art world.

The art world is full of unscrupulous parties.  By copyrighting your works of art, we can also importantly protect your art from those who would steal your ideas and works, copy them and play them off as their own.  We’ll demand others to cease and desist such efforts and pursue litigation against those who would infringe your copyrighted works of art.

California Artist Gallery Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has been named one of the Top Lawyers of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 by Palm Springs Life Magazine.  He’s been called “Brilliant” and “A Legend.”  If you want a top lawyer on your side, call Sebastian Gibson.

Peace Of Mind With Internationally Trained And Experienced Art Lawyer, Sebastian Gibson

With your art protected by California Artist Gallery Lawyer Sebastian Gibson, you can rest easy, knowing your legal matters are in capable hands, experienced in the protection of the rights of artists and others like you with creative talents.

California Artist Gallery Lawyer Sebastian Gibson is also the author of thousands of articles on the internet, Sebastian Gibson has also written for the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal newspapers and is the author of a book published in 2012 which received rave reviews.

With law degrees in both the U.S. and the U.K., California Artist Gallery Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has over 40 years of experience in California and in England.  He’s been frequently interviewed on radio and TV for his expertise.

Choosing the right lawyer to protect your art can make all the difference. California Artist Gallery Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has been called “Brilliant” and “A Legend.” He’s known for his wit and humor, and a determination to make sure his clients receive the compensation they deserve.  He has also been named as a “Superb” Lawyer by Avvo, which rates attorneys throughout the United States.

How Attorney Sebastian Gibson Can Help With Your Legal Matters In The Art World

If you’re an art buyer in California or elsewhere in the world, we can assist you in determining the authenticity and provenance of art works you’re considering purchasing.  If necessary, we can enlist the assistance of art experts to evaluate the art authenticity and provenance.

Art consignment and commission agreements can be full of risk but at the same time be advantageous to the artist as a vehicle to provide the means to allow an artist the financial ability to continue creating fine works of art.

The risk comes when agreements are made on the basis of a handshake, a few terms on a cocktail napkin or a form obtained from the internet used by landscapers or auto mechanics.

Besides the percentage paid as a commission, other terms must be unambiguously covered to ensure that all the parties know where they stand, are satisfied with what they agreed to do, and won’t feel any need to litigate at a later date no matter the outcome of the arrangement.

We’ll also take over responsibility for copyrighting all of your art so if it’s necessary to pursue litigation over an infringer, you have the copyright registration from the U.S. Copyright Office that will allow you to obtain damages from the party responsible for infringing your art works.

We specialize not only in art matters and licensing but also in protecting the publicity rights and privacy rights of our clients in California and internationally.  You have a right to control the use of your photos, images and your name.  Should others seek to profit from the use of your photos, images or name without your authorization, we’ll seek an injunction if they will not voluntarily cease and desist from their actions and if you wish, pursue litigation for your damages and any profits generated from the use of your name, photos or images.

Similarly, when you use a model in the creation of your art works, we will seek to ensure you have the legal right to use their image in your works.

The art world has legal considerations found in no other area of law including moral rights.  We’ll help you understand how droit morale and droit de suite, if not waived or assigned, can allow you to control the use of your name in connection with your art and the right to have a work published anonymously or pseudonymously, the right to bar your works from alteration, distortion or mutilation and how you may be able to receive a fee on the resale of their works of art in countries that don’t have a first-sale doctrine where artists do not have the right to control or profit from future sales.

California Artist Gallery Lawyer Sebastian Gibson

If you’re purchasing art, you’ll wish to ensure that the artist has given up his or her moral rights to the art, and if not, how this affects your ownership rights.  And you’ll want a contract with terms you fully understand and can base your price on, accordingly.

If you have the copyright in a work of art the either you created or which was assigned to you, you may also have the right to reproduce that work of art.  As an artist, you’ll wish to ensure that your interests are protected in any reproduction agreement and to have an attorney ready to pursue litigation is the parties with whom you’re involved exceed the terms of that agreement.

Agreements can be drafted between buyers and sellers of art, as well as consignment and commission contracts, licensing agreements, model releases, reproduction contracts, consignment agreements, auction house contracts, agreements with art galleries, museums, exhibition spaces, dealers, and agents.

We can also be of invaluable assistance when disputes arise over private sales of art, the auction of art works, consignments of art, commissions over the sales of art, disputes over authenticity and provenance of art, conversion, bailment, negligent entrustment, agency issues, breach of contract, moral rights, theft, fraud, forgeries, fake art works, restoration of art works, charitable donations of art, valuation of art, art insurance claims, and other issues.

When It Matters Most in California or Internationally, Call California Artist Gallery Lawyer Sebastian Gibson To Protect Your Art

If you need assistance with art-related legal matters as an artist, art consultant, art expert, art appraiser, art agent, art collector, artist agent, owner of an art gallery, foundation, museum, auction house, or purchaser of fine art in California or internationally, call the number at the top of this page and talk directly with Sebastian Gibson.

With offices in Palm Desert and Newport Beach and years of experience in London, Attorney Sebastian Gibson can assist you with your art-related legal matters in Palm Springs, Orange County and throughout California and the United States and internationally as well.

California Artist Gallery Lawyer Sebastian Gibson

When you need an art lawyer experienced in California and internationally, call California Artist Gallery Lawyer Sebastian Gibson at (760) 776-1810 to discuss how we can assist you with your legal matters in the art world and protect your works of art.

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