April 7, 2026
Signing on the Dotted Line: Indemnities and Warranties Turning indemnity “legalese” into legal ease for designers and artists Indemnity. For many creatives, it is one of […]
April 4, 2026
Ripped Off and Replicated A plain‑English guide for Australian designers This is exactly the gap DesignWise Legal, powered by Sharon Givoni Consulting, is designed to fill. […]
March 15, 2026
Can You Borrow Celebrity Stardust for Your Brand? Creative Ideas, Legal Risks – and What the Katy Perry Case Tells Designers and Businesses From pun‑filled café […]
January 8, 2026
Designing with “mystery” images Copyright and Orphan works Imagine you are working on a mood board for a client, or a surface‑design collection, or a book […]
December 4, 2025
Designers: Is Your Style Protected from AI? This fear is no longer theoretical. In the past two years, AI image-generation models have become so advanced that […]
November 23, 2025
Interior Design Procurement Risks Procurement—meaning the process of finding, selecting, and purchasing goods or services for a project—is a big part of the interior design process, […]
November 12, 2025
How Designers Legally Protect Their Brands As a designer, your brand identity is everything—from the look and feel of your products to the name and logo […]
November 9, 2025
“You Can’t Copyright Air” Powered by Sharon Givoni Consulting “It’s not enough to have bright ideas—they need a body. Copyright law doesn’t reward the person with […]
October 29, 2025
Australia Says No to Free AI Use of Creative Works and Why All Australian Designers Should Be Paying Attention Picture this: Jamie, a Melbourne-based industrial designer, […]
October 27, 2025
How to Legally Label your Sunscreen and Cosmetics It’s no big secret that Australians are famously sun‑soaked and SPF‑obsessed. We love chic tubes with names like […]
October 24, 2025
Whose Trade Mark Is It Anyway? In today’s world, it’s not just bands or big businesses that face ownership drama—it’s almost everyone with a group project […]
March 17, 2025
First to Market for Creatives: How Designers Can Protect Their Ideas Many designers dream of protecting their ideas under intellectual property law. However, the reality is […]