Legal Question in Intellectual Property in Delaware

Signing a contract - which name should I use? my DBA, LLC name or legal name?

I am about to sign a contract with a gallery / art publishing company in Canada and have a question about which name I should use to sign the contract: Should I use my legal name or my DBA name (registered in the USA, which is the same as my artist name) which is ''XX-YY'', I also have a LLC registered as ''XX-YY, LLC� (My artist name (DBA) is different from my legal name).

I signed all my paintings with my artist name: ''XX-YY�.

Since the contract regards copyright for giclees I thought it would be best to sign it with both names, my artist name (DBA) and also with my legal name in order to have my paintings/rights protected. Or is it better to only sign it with my artist name?

further: When getting paid a percentage from sold giclees, I want the gallery/art publishing company make their checks out to my legal name in the beginning. For this reason, should I sign the contract with my legal name? Or should I just tell the company about my legal name?

Thanks kindly for your help and advise!

Jefferey


Asked on 1/28/09, 11:07 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Lawrence Graves Coolidge & Graves PLLC

Re: Signing a contract - which name should I use? my DBA, LLC name or legal name?

Have the contract run through the LLC and sign in your own name as "Member" of the LLC. The signature block should look like this:

XX-YY, LLC

By:__________________________

(your legal name), Member

Best wishes,

LDWG

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Answered on 1/29/09, 11:07 am


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