Creativity and Copyright (eBook)

Legal Essentials for Screenwriters and Creative Artists

John L. Geiger, Howard Suber (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
216 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97274-2 (ISBN)

Infos

What they won't teach you in film school: This expertly written reference guide breaks down copyright laws for screenwriters.

Inspired by Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, this elegant, short reference is the perfect guide for screenwriters and creative artists looking to succeed as industry professionals. Readers will quickly understand the laws that govern creativity, idea-making, and selling, and learn how to protect themselves and their works from the legal quagmires they may encounter. Written by an unrivaled pair of experts, John L. Geiger and Howard Suber, who use real-life case studies to cover topics such as clearance, contracts, collaboration, and infringement, Creativity and Copyright is poised to become an indispensable resource for beginners and experts alike.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Disclaimer

Introduction
1. Free for the Taking: What You Can Steal from Others,
and What Others Can Steal from You
2. Clearance Required: What You Do
Need Permission to Use
3. Collaboration
4. Selling to Others and Implied-in-Fact Contracts
5. Copyright Infringement
6. Your Legal Team
7. Confessions of an Expert Witness: Free for the Telling
Epilogue: Creativity and Copyright

Appendix A. Copyright Fundamentals
Appendix B. Collaboration Problems
Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.7.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: accessible • acquiring a short story • artistic license • artists • attachment agreement • attorney's fees • Beginners • billable hours • books for industry beginners • Case Studies • celebrity rights • Clearance • co-author • Collaboration • collaboration agreement • Comprehensive • contingency fees • contract law • Contracts • copying • Copyright • copyrightable contribution • Copyright Act • Copyright infringement • copyright notice • copyright registration • copyright term • Corporate Communications • creative artists • Creative Control • creative freedom • Creatives • creativity laws • Creators • death of copyright • deceased personality • elegant • entertainment law • Expert Opinion • Experts • expert testimony • Expert witness • expired copyrights • extrinsic test • Fair Use • flat fee • guide for screenwriters and creative artists • Hollywood • how to create • idea-making • idea making laws • idea selling • idea theft • implied-in-fact contract • Infringement • Intellectual Property • International Copyright • intrinsic test • inverse ratio rule • joint author • joint ownership • lawyer • leave-behinds • life rights • literary rights • oral pitch • Ownership • parallel development • Pitching • Poor Man's Copyright • Professionals • professional writers • Progress Clause • protect my work • protect works • Public Domain • real life case studies • Reference • reference for screenwriters • release forms • screenwriting • selling laws • Short • short reference guides • spec script • striking similarity • style manual • substantial similarity • unconscionability • WGA registration • what are my legal rights • work made-for-hire • writers
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97274-0 / 0520972740
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97274-2 / 9780520972742