Law

Who gets your Twitter account when you die?

by Matthew Stibbe on October 4, 2010

Death is inevitable but the law decides what happens to our goods when we go. The new question is: what happens to our virtual identity and our online assets? The law says nothing about our ‘digital legacy’. What happens to our photos on Facebook? Can a literary executor get control over a writer’s Tweets? Is [...]

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11 things to do at the start of a new (business) relationship

by Matthew Stibbe on May 17, 2010

The last week has seen the beginning of a coalition government in the UK. For me personally, it has seen the start of two new client relationships and the renewal of an older one. It seems like a good time to think about what makes relationships work and how to ensure that each marriage is [...]

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When writers become lawyers – how to agree terms with a client

by Matthew Stibbe on November 20, 2009

Every freelance writer has a story about the project from hell. Mine involves writing a 7,000-word in-house magazine in a month. By the third issue, thanks to unreasonableness from the client, it was 14,000 words in ten days. For the same money. There wasn’t a fourth issue. So how do you avoid situations where the [...]

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