This creator assistance directory provides information on various volunteer lawyers for the arts (VLA) groups and legal clinics that are located across the country. These groups and clinics offer a variety of services to qualifying individual creators and small businesses. The services may include educational workshops, pro bono legal services, mediation services, and estate planning. If you are an individual creator or small business in need of legal assistance on a copyright issue and cannot afford to hire an attorney, we encourage you to explore the creator assistance directory below to help you find a VLA or clinic that can answer your questions and assist you with your copyright legal issues. When searching the creator assistance directory, please keep in mind that some organizations also offer services to creators located in neighboring states.
15 Channel Center Street #103,
Boston, MA
02210
Luke Blackader, Director of Legal Services
luke@artsandbusinesscouncil.org
617.350.7600
1900 Belmont Blvd.
Nashville, TN
37212
Mailing:
Box 1054, Madison, WI
53701-1054
Office: 451 N. Few St.,
Madison, WI
53703
608-255-8316
info@artswisconsin.org
Wells Fargo Building
2140 Shattuck Ave., Suite 309
Berkeley, CA 94704
Fax: (510) 201-9957
12304 Santa Monica Blvd., Ste. 304
Los Angeles, CA 90025
2015 J Street, Suite 204
Sacramento, CA 95811
Tel: (916) 441-7979
Fax: (916) 441-1170
sacramento@calawyersforthearts.org
2456 Broadway, #203
San Diego, CA 92102
Fort Mason Center
2 Marina Blvd.
Building C, Room 265
San Francisco, CA 94123
Fax: (415) 775-1143
11075 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH
44106
216-368-2766
1 University Drive
Orange, CA
92866
Prof. Kathy Heller, Director
Phone: (714) 628-2675
Email: Kheller@chapman.edu
2121 Euclid Avenue,LB 138
Cleveland, OH
44115
216.687.2300
Prof. Carole Heyward
C.heyward@csu.ohio.edu
375 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL
60611-3069
tel: 312.503.5666
email: dpelc@law.northwestern.edu
Box 90360
Durham, NC
27708-0360
Phone: (919) 613-7169
Prof. Jeff Ward, Director
919-613-7153
ward@law.duke.edu