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Articles About Foreign Rights
  • Foreign Publishing Deals
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  • Foreign Publishing Deals-Further Issues
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  • Territorial Contract Restrictions
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  • What Happens After Frankfurt?
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    Articles About Contracts
  • The Book Publisher's Legal Check List
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  • The Permission Form
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  • Are Your Invoices Legally Sufficient?
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  • Giving Up Your Rights
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  • The Ten Key Negotiating Points in an Author-Publisher Agreement
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  • The Cover Artist/Illustrator Contract
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  • The Book Editor Contract
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  • Book Club Clauses in Publishing Contracts
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  • The Interview Release
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  • The Gap Trap
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  • Warranty and Indemnity Clauses in Book Contracts
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  • Unbundling The "Bundling" Clause in Computer Book Contracts
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  • Cross-Collateralization in Publishing Contracts
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  • Further Fallacies About Cross-Collateralization
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  • Reversionary Rights in Book Contracts
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  • The Peculiarities of Computer Book Contracts
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  • Revised Edition Clauses In Book Contracts
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  • The 2 (Or More) Book Publishing Deal
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  • Royalty Calculations In Book Contracts
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  • Merchandising Rights In Book Contracts
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  • Look Before You Sign: Restrictive Licenses
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  • The Agency Agreement
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  • Owned and Controlled Licenses
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  • Private Laws
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  • Publisher Liabilities to Authors and Others
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  • Electronic Issues in Publishing Contracts
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  • Out of Print Provisions in Book Contracts
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  • Compilation Rights in Book Contracts
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  • On Demand Printing Contract Provisions
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  • "Standard" Contracts
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  • Disclaimers
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  • Subsidiary Rights Licensing
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  • Subsidy Publishing Agreements
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  • The Ghostwriter Agreement
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  • Electronic Rights: The Supreme Court's "Tasini" Ruling
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  • Licensing
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  • "Next Book" Provisions in Publishing Contracts
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  • A Legal Nightmare: The Unwritten License
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  • Marketing Provisions in Book Contracts
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  • Co-Author Issues in Book Contracts
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  • Children's Book Publishing
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  • Failure To Publish Provisions in Book Contracts
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  • Precise Contract Language
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  • Submitting Ideas
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  • The Letter of Intent
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  • The Independent Rep Agreement
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  • Territorial Contract Restrictions
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  • A Legal Nightmare: The Unwritten License: Further Issues
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  • Screen Shot Liability for Computer Book Authors
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  • Working Without A Signed Agreement
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  • “Best Efforts” Clauses
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  • Precise Contract Language--Again
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  • Limitation of Liability Provisions
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  • Are Royalties Due On Sale of The Business?
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  • The Need For Written Agreements
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  • "Bad" Contracts: Leverage Follows The Money
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    Articles About Distribution
  • Apples and Oranges: An Analysis of Distribution Agreement
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  • Distribution Agreements: Further Issues
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  • Many Unhappy Returns
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    Articles About Copyrights
  • Who Shall Own The Copyright In A Book Publishing Agreement?
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  • When Do Copyrights Expire?
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  • Derivative Works
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  • Do I Need to Register My Copyrights?
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  • Work Made For Hire Agreements
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  • Playboy and the Work Made for Hire Agreement
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  • Screen Shot Liability for Computer Book Authors
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  • Rights to Use Photographs 
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  • Copyright: What It Does Not Protect
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  • Copyright Transfers
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  • The Right to Transfer Copyright Licenses
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  • Mere Facts vs.  Protected Expression of Facts
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  • The Protection of Fictional Characters
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  • Scenes A Faire Under Copyright Law
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  • Copyright in Compilations
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  • Work Made For Hire Agreements: Further Issues
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  • Copyright Infringement-Some Issues
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  • Joint Authors Under The Copyright Law
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  • A Legal Nightmare: The Unwritten License
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  • A Legal Nightmare: The Unwritten License-Further Issues
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  • Copyright Infringement: Further Issues
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    Articles About Fair Use Under the Copyright Law
  • Fair Use
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  • Napster and Fair Use
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  • Fair Use: Further, Further Issues
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  • Fair Use: Further Issues
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  • The Seinfeld and The Wind Done Gone Cases: Studies in Fair Use
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  • "Beanie Babies" Collector's Guide: Another Study in Fair Use
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  • Screen Shot Liability for Computer Book Authors
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  • Fair Use-Even More Issues
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  • Fair Use: Unpublished Works
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  • Fair Use And Derivative Works
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  • Fair Use: Music Sampling
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  • Fair Use: Even More Issues: Follow Up
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    Miscellaneous Topics
  • The Publishing Audit
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  • In Bed Together: The Problems Of Collaboration
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  • Protection Of Book Titles
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  • Electronic Publishing and the Potential Loss of First Serial Rights
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  • Handling Unsolicited Material
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  • Electronic Rights
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  • The Web Site Audit Check List
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  • The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
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  • Publishers Liability Insurance
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  • Verifiable Parental Consent Under COPPA
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  • Rights of Privacy: An Overview
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  • Online Liability Insurance
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  • Pen Names
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  • The Protection of "Trade Dress"
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  • Defamation
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  • The California Anti-Spam Law
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  • Defamation on the Internet
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  • The Federal Can Spam Law
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  • The Do It Yourself Publishing Lawyer
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  • Advertising Slogans: Fact vs. Puffing
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  • Respect For The Law
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  • Advertising Injury Provisions in Liability Insurance Policies
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  • Lost Opportunity Costs
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