I’d wager that most of you have just come through our most food-centric American holiday. While it’s not part of everyone’s experience, for many (and for me) it’s the most important meal of the year.
Kitchens are awash with dishes, food, pots, dishes, pans, kitchen tools, more dishes, more food, and people. Even those who don’t frequent the kitchen roll up their sleeves to knead, mix, carve, whip, stuff, or deep fry whatever’s on the menu. For those who don’t contribute to the prep, there’s a TON of clean-up afterward that needs just as many rolled-up sleeves. And for those of you who somehow escaped all duties, there’s always something that needs nibbling.
It’s a wonderful, communal, creative mess. This is how you get it right.
This same kind of creative mess shows up when we’re getting it right. We don’t shut the door or hide our work back at our desk. Or clients see the process, the ingredients, the mistakes, the successes, the complete experience. The mess. We do this because all of us have a part in finding the right path forward.
Thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant, where the food is made behind closed doors, would be missing something huge. Our work would, too.
Want to see how it’s made? Our kitchen is open.
From our missing October newsletter
Frightening facts about copyright infringement
One thing we were eager to share around Halloween was a spooky primer on copyright, licensing, and risk from James Gourley at Carstens, Allen & Gourley, LLP. If you've ever used an image you "found on the internet," you ought to have a look. It’s a quick read, and it’s better to learn about this stuff from James than from a cease-and-desist letter. Or worse, a lawsuit.
The shocking thing I learned? It’s not just a business that’s on the hook for using an unlicensed image. The business and the employee who found and placed the unlicensed image are both on the hook.