truebluejw
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My friend recently worked at a clothing company as a head designer. There are a lot of issues with this company between my friend and also myself. But basically they hired her as a designer on a percentage of sales basis, and then also hired her a a production manager on a salary basis. After working for them for two months as a production manager they fired her before she had signed the contract for her percentage arrangement for obvious reason, and then they claimed that their original agreement was nulled. Now this is not my main question though right now. This company has written numerous bad checks to my friend, and to my other friend who was involved in some artwork for the company. They also did not pay my friend her last paycheck once they fired her. There is going to be a lawsuit over the lost wages but I was wondering what can be done to properly file my other friends claim on the bounced check. Also the company owes me money for webdesign work that I did for them. I had a verbal agreement and emails, and of course the artwork and I did send them and invoice. So there are basically three different situations here really. Could someone also help decide what to do seperately and together. Another quick quesion, I know that clothing designs cannot be trademarked. However, my friend did make artwork for some of the shirts and I know that can be copywrited. Do you think this would help us at this point? Also does it matter if she copywrights the originals. I guess you could maybe say that the art is a work for hire job. But they did bounce my friends check and this whole thing was part of the agreement of the percentage of money earned off the total sales of the collection. Sorry this is a lot. I could really use a couple of tips right now. Thanks