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When creative partnerships face the transition to business relationships

My creative collaborator and I have been making art together for years as friends, but now there's commercial interest and we need to formalize our partnership, and suddenly we're discovering we have completely different ideas about ownership, credit, and what success looks like. Money is making everything weird.

Juana
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Two people whose informal collaboration worked well discover that formalizing their relationship surfaces fundamental differences about value and recognition.

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