Law and Authors

A Legal Handbook for Writers

Jacqueline D. Lipton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2020
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-30181-8 (ISBN)

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Everything a writer needs to know about the law.

This accessible, reader-friendly handbook will be an invaluable resource for authors, agents, and editors in navigating the legal landscape of the contemporary publishing industry. Drawing on a wealth of experience in legal scholarship and publishing, Jacqueline D. Lipton provides a useful legal guide for writers whatever their levels of expertise or categories of work (fiction, nonfiction, or academic). Through case studies and hypothetical examples, Law and Authors addresses issues of copyright law, including explanations of fair use and the public domain; trademark and branding concerns for those embarking on a publishing career; laws that impact the ways that authors might use social media and marketing promotions; and privacy and defamation questions that writers may face. Although the book focuses on American law, it highlights key areas where laws in other countries differ from those in the United States. Law and Authors will prepare every writer for the inevitable and the unexpected.

Jacqueline D. Lipton is an internationally recognized professor of law, a consultant, and a literary agent who has published widely on contract, copyright, and trademark law, cyberlaw, privacy, and defamation issues, with an emphasis on laws relating to the publishing industry. She is the coauthor of multiple editions of leading cyberspace casebook Cyberspace Law: Cases and Materials and coauthor of The Criminal Law of Intellectual Property and Information. She also authored Rethinking Cyberlaw; Internet Domain Names, Trademarks, and Free Speech; and Security over Intangible Property.

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Introduction
Setting the Stage: A Primer on the Law for Writers

1. Copyright Basics
Ownership, Registration, the Public Domain, and Creative Commons
2. Know Your (Copy)Rights
Understanding Your Rights and Protecting Your Work
3. Writing for Someone Else
Ghostwriting, Freelancing, “IP,” and Works for Hire
4. Fair Use Basics
5. Specific Fair Uses
Parody, Fanfiction, and Educational Use
6. Contracts with Agents and Publishing Houses
7. Self-Publishing Contracts
8. Protecting Your Author Brand
Trademark Basics
9. Writing about Real People
Privacy Law
10. Damaging Someone’s Reputation
Defamation Law
11. Marketing and Social Media
Websites, Blogs, Book Trailers, Social Networking, and More
12. Photographs, Illustrations, and Other Artwork
13. Finding Additional Help

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Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.07.2020
Zusatzinfo	3 photographs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 203 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10	0-520-30181-1 / 0520301811
ISBN-13	978-0-520-30181-8 / 9780520301818
Zustand	Neuware