A Potluck Creative Arts production workshop, such as the Songwriting Workshop, is a unique experience, in great part because you participate in creating an original, collaborative work of art. This, however, brings up issues of ownership that wouldn’t arise in many other situations. As a result, the policies for production workshops are more involved than those for many other kinds of creative workshops.

All potential participants are encouraged to read relevant policies in their entirety, and all patrons who complete a workshop Agreement thereby attest to their having read and agreed to the applicable policies. However, as a courtesy, here is a summary of some of the unique things that the production workshop policies entail:

• Participation in a production workshop means giving up all claims of ownership to any products of the workshop. — This is necessary because it would take far too much work to track the countless shares of ownership across countless works produced during countless workshops.
• Potluck Creative Arts plans to release all workshop products under a Creative Commons license that allows anybody to make any non-commercial use of the products. — The workshops are intended to encourage people to explore their creativity and share it with others, and this supports that goal.
• Under this same license, Potluck Creative Arts reserves all commercial rights to all workshop products. — Potluck would not expect to make commercial use of most workshop products nor to make much in profit from any commercial uses. In the extremely unlikely event that a workshop product earns a lot of money, Potluck would plan to be a good sport and make an effort to share the profits fairly with those who helped create the piece. In many cases, though, participants may not even all be known, and those who are may be impossible to track down. As a result, profit sharing cannot be promised under any circumstances and is therefore not mentioned in the policies.
• Potluck agrees to be held accountable only to its patrons, i.e., those people who complete production workshop agreements and pay for Potluck’s work. — The patron decides how any participant(s) will be referred to in any attribution of the workshop products and takes responsibility for making the complete policies available to all potential participants. Participation in a workshop will be taken as implied acknowledgment of and agreement to all policies. Those with questions or concerns about a production workshop are directed to its patron.

Here are the complete policies for Potluck Creative Arts production workshops:

• Policy for Offered Production Workshops
• Policy for Commissioned Production Workshops