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Member Legal Services
Entcounsel Law Firm

Legal support designed for your practice

CARFAC Ontario members now have access to legal services designed around the realities of an artist’s practice. CARFAC Ontario Member Legal Services (MLS) is a new initiative with legal services provided by Vandana Taxali of Entcounsel Law Firm, with financial support from the Law Foundation of Ontario. You can work directly with Vandana to review contracts, navigate copyright and licensing, draft documents, resolve disputes, and get consultation on a range of legal matters related to the practice and presentation of visual arts.

Artists do serious professional work. Negotiating contracts, protecting copyright, navigating complex agreements is part of the job, and it deserves proper legal support. Legal services provided are informed by, and consistent with, standards and guidelines developed by CARFAC to benefit visual artists in Canada.

 

The Member Legal Services is currently in its pilot phase; your experience will help shape what it becomes.

       
Get Started
  • Free 15 minute legal triage
  • Join a free Artists’ Rights Clinic
  • In-take form
  • Review CARFAC Ontario Member MLS Fees
  • Looking for the full breakdown? Head over to the Complete MLS Guide.
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    who it's for
    • CARFAC Ontario members (individual, dual, senior, student, and recent graduate artists)
    • Associate and institutional members with limited scope access

    Not a CARFAC Ontario member yet?
    Join CARFAC Ontario to access members-only legal service rates, along with other member benefits and resources. Membership starts from $25/quarterly.

    Become a member
    what it can help with

    Member Legal Services covers the legal situations that come up most often in the practice and presentation of visual art, for example:

    Contract Review
    • Commissions, licensing, exhibitions, studio leases
    • NDAs, public art agreements, collaborative / co-authored work
    Document Drafting
    • Partnership agreements, waivers, exhibition agreements
    • Bills of sale, use of likeness, collaborations
    Demand Letters
    • Outstanding payments
    • Copyright / moral rights infringement
    • Return of artworks, lost and damaged works, cease and desist
    Consultations
    • Copyright questions, negotiations, mediations, small claims court
    Associate & Institutional Members
    • Contract review for exhibitions, workshops, public programming, and licensing

      (e.g. curators, gallery owners and dealers, arts workers, art consultants, art historians, arts organizations, public gallery and museums)

    Your legal counsel
    Vandana Taxali
    Vandana Taxali
    IP Lawyer · Art-Tech Entrepreneur · Founder, Encounsel Law Firm
    Vandana Taxali is a lawyer for creators, startups, and businesses — practicing in intellectual property, contracts, licensing, business law, and emerging technology. She is the founder of Entcounsel Law Firm, a virtual law firm built for the creative industries.

    Vandana works at the intersection of art, digital media, IP law, AI, and innovative technologies. With degrees in both Canadian and American law, she has navigated the complex landscapes of blockchain, AI, VR, and the metaverse within the creative industries — advocating for creator rights and pioneering IP protection strategies in the digital space.

    She is the founder of Artcryption, an art-tech-law platform that combines innovative technology to safeguard and monetize creative assets. She also works as an art agent and lawyer, curating exhibitions, facilitating brand collaborations, and managing international gallery exhibitions. Notable clients and projects include Harry Rosen, Royal Canadian Mint, Old Navy, Freed Developments, and Nike.

    Vandana holds a law certificate from Christie's Auction House and is a certified art arbitrator with the International Court of Art at The Hague. She is an active participant in the Standard Council of Canada's blockchain committee and the Art Identity Standard (AIS) NFT Working Group, and a startup mentor for accelerators including FuelArts and the Fineline Accelerator supported by OCAD University.

    Learn more about Vandana and her expertise here.

    Artists' Rights Clinic

    Mondays & Wednesdays | 5PM EDT Register Here!
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