We are experts in the acquisition, protection and licensing of intellectual property. Our IP used in mass media, motion pictures, television and merchandising are celebrated around the world.
Our mission is to share historical and culturally significant art, stories, and films to keep us all enquiring and striving for a more meaningful life.
CO-FOUNDER ARCHIVEA COMPANIES
After studying film and experimental psychology at the University of California Santa Barbara, Richard Weedn began his research and investigative career in the mid-1970’s. This education included Polygraph training from US Army Intelligence / Counter Intelligence Polygraph Examiner Richard “Dick” Hickman in downtown Los Angeles, California.
For Richard, this period of his life on Wilshire’s “Miracle Mile” was like a chapter from a Raymond Chandler novel. A fitting start to a career that later saw him become a professional researcher, a licensing agent for the Marlon Brando and the John Wayne estates among many other experiences in music, entertainment, and design representation over his lifetime.
Richard, like his father before him is very inquisitive and remains to this day full of a desire to find the truth through investigation. He is a born researcher and rarely quits when he is on the trail of what he believes to be important. He tries to see all sides of each subject and to walk in the other party’s shoes. Sometimes this investigation leads to his attempt to bring light to injustice or to assist in discovering a deeper significance in a project. Sometimes his work is to clear copyrights for clients or build trademark portfolios or valuations. Sometimes it is as practical as finding assets or unreported royalties for rights owners or wrongdoings by shareholders.
After his high school education in Southern California and undergraduate work at the University of California Santa Barbara and California State University at Long Beach, Richard Weedn along with his family built successful IP business enterprises around the world. His father, Jack Weedn was an aerial photographer, nightclub singer, cowboy, and an artists agent, while his mother, Flavia was a tap dancer, poet, and a well known artist.
Richard has uncovered more than $3.5 million in unreported royalties and damages for clients over his research, investigative, and licensing career.
Today Richard Weedn lives full-time in Europe, splitting his time between Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, when stateside in Wyoming near Jackson Hole or in La Quinta, California near Palm Springs. Today Richard loves to travel to learn of new cultures and history.
Richard along with his son, Miguel Angel Weedn remain focused on family business interests and specifically on bringing the managed archives to the world via select market distribution in the form of documentaries, publishing, and emerging technologies. In 2025 focus is on framing, art supplies, publishing and changing marketplaces for artists. We see a return to artisanal handwork supported by carefully selected old school distribution channels that build artist awareness locally.
Richard Weedn functions as an IP and strategy advisor to artists and teams at the Archivea companies.
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