Bettye Zoller Voice Talent and Coach
This is an amazing resource for anyone, not only in voice overs, but also in radio, TV or acting. So much information that would cost many thousands were a person to hire legal counsel. Rob has added substantially to our resources here.www.voicesvoices.com


Perfect Go-to-Guy
Julie Williams Voice Talent and Coach
Nowhere in this entire industry have I seen someone with so many diverse talents. Rob is a competent attorney, experienced voice over talent, and respectable on-camera actor as well. The perfect go-to guy for any legal or business-related questions you may have about the entertainment industry. www.voice-overs.com


You Relate To This
Deb Munro Voice Talent and Coach
I am sure you will enjoy this eBook because it was created by someone who is just like you and me, a person everyone can relate to, an everyday guy, taking on a not-so-everyday industry, in an everyday kind of way, legally! It is without hesitation that I recommend this eBook. www.debsvoice.com


Rob Is Our Man
David Goldberg Producer and Trainer
We are voice over experts, not legal advisors. So we rely on Robert. Robert has helped our contracts provide safer working relationships with our clients, while ensuring our safety. Legalise is not for us. Voice over is. Rob is our man. www.edgestudio.com



Never Worry Again
Susan Berkley Voice Actor and Coach
Rob is a unique combination of successful attorney and actor, both on camera and off. In this groundbreaking eBook you'll get definitive answers to everything pertaining to your voice over business from a legal professional who knows our business inside and out. As you grow your voice over business with Rob's advice you'll never have to worry again about what's "kosher" and what's not.www.greatvoice.com


Why Figure It Out Alone?
Ann S. Utterback, Ph.D, Broadcast Voice Specialist
Robert Sciglimpaglia Jr. has written an indispensible guide to help you navigate around the legal potholes that occasionally appear in our careers. I wish I'd had this valuable resource when I began my career as a broadcast voice specialist. This eBook is helpful for any voice professional from voice over artists to broadcasters. Sciglimpaglia takes you through the legalities of the business. He tells you what you need to know on the first day you begin setting up your business and takes you all the way to the complications that can occur later in your career like contracts, libel, slander, copyrights and trademarks. Why try to figure out all the legal issues alone? http://onlinevoicecoaching.com


Concise, Accurate Answers
Jason LeBlanc, Audio and Video Producer
While producing the videos for Voice Over LEGAL, I've had the chance to read this book in its entirety, and I would have to say ..."This is a must-have for your reference library. Concise, accurate answers to your most asked questions." Great job Robert, and congratulations to VoiceOverXtra on its maiden voyage into eBook publishing. www.AudioArtCafe.com

It Can Happen to You  

• We have a dispute, and my side is not in writing!
• What? I could have saved on taxes if I only knew.
• You mean I could be sued if the product I voice does not work?
  
• Just learned the music in my demo is copyrighted. Now what?
• Yeah, they wanted me to mimic that celebrity, and then I heard from guess who?
• Whadaya mean the IRS thinks I am not serious about voice over!
• If I had incorporated last year, I would not be in this mess.
• But I thought I COULD deduct that expense!
• I want to be in the union but also take some non-union jobs.
• My agent is not working out. Or am I to blame?
• No, I DO need to fire my agent. What next?
• The insurance agent said the fire did not cover my equipment.
• You mean she is my employee and not a subcontractor?

Get the drift here? Any number of issues can drop in out of the blue.


Author Robert Sciglimpaglia Jr. is a uniquely qualified voice actor / actor / attorney who alerts you to issues to deal with now, and to how to cope with what may arise tomorrow.
How can you run your voice over business without Voice Over LEGAL?
 

Learn and Understand 

Voice Over LEGAL delivers more than 100 pages of invaluable advice for coping with your current projects - and to have on hand as reference material.

See below what you can have in your reference library right now.

FOREWARD by Pat Fraley

CHAPTERS  

1. Your Voice Over Business and The Law

• Planning to Succeed
• Are You a Business? Or Just a Hobby?
• Questions & Answers: Your Voice Over Business  

2. Formal Business Structure

• Your Options Explained
• Helpful IRS Definitions
• Benefits of Incorporating
• Special Benefits to Voice Talent of Incorporating
• Questions & Answers:Formal Business Structure  

3. Voice Industry Liability Issues

• Celebrity Impersonations
• Product Endorsements
• Libel & Slander
• Questions & Answers: Voice Industry Liability Issues  

4. Contracts: Get It in Writing!

• There is No Such Thing as a Standard Contract
• Meeting of the Minds
• Consideration
• Damages & Specific Performance
• Contract Terms to Be Aware Of
• Questions & Answers: Contracts  

5. Intellectual Property Issues

• Copyright Infringement on Demos
• Protecting Your Work through Copyright
• Trademarks & Service Marks
• Questions & Answers: Intellectual Property Issues  

6. Agents

• Agents vs. Managers
• Your Agency Contract
• Advice from My Agents
• Questions & Answers: Agents  

7. Performance Unions

• Becoming a Member of SAG-AFTRA
• Financial Core (Fi-Core)
• Joining a Union
• What My Agents Say about Unions
• A Word about SaVoa  

8. Business Insurance

• Employees
• A Separate Studio Space Outside of Your Home
• Home Studios
• Questions & Answers: Business Insurance  

9. Tax Tips & Considerations

• Recordkeeping
• Education & Travel Deductions
• Deducting Equipment Costs
• Home Office (Home Studio) Deduction
• Questions & Answers: Tax Issues  

10. Final Thoughts  

• About the Author
• Appendix A: Glossary of Legal Terms
• Appendix B: Sample Contract
• Appendix C: Case Study: Online Casting Site Contract
• Index (PDF version)