CHAPTER 11

Covering Yourself

Professional Standards and Legal Issues

Our difficulties and our dangers will not be removed by closing our eyes to them.

—Winston Churchill

Warren Zevon’s “Lawyers Guns & Money” lyrics would go great here. Shame the label won’t work with me on securing the rights to quote them. Perhaps there’s a lesson there in how we find cheap but legal workarounds to get the job done.”

—Me

There’s a reason I put this chapter last.

Several, actually. One is just that it’s been the trickiest and least fun topic for me to research. The other is that while I certainly advocate obeying the laws and protecting yourself from liability, I don’t think the desire to do so should drive our artistic or safety decisions: figure out what your ...

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