Even if you’re fairly business savvy, publishing contracts are a breed of their own. There are terminology and standard practices that are not found in other business deals. Even if you plan to have an agent or attorney review your contract, you should know what you’re signing.

Register today to attend the Copyright and Contracts live webinar!

Session date: Thursday, October 28, 2010
Starting time: 1:00 pm Eastern
Duration: 75 minutes
Cost: $59
Each registration comes with access to the archived version of the program and the materials for 1 year.

Description

Even if you’re fairly business savvy, publishing contracts are a breed of their own. There are terminology and standard practices that are not found in other business deals. Even if you plan to have an agent or attorney review your contract, you should know what you’re signing. In this seminar, we’ll go over the must-need-to-know clauses, give you suggested language changes to make the agreement more writer friendly, and tell you what you probably can’t change, so you’ll know if you’re getting the best deal. We will cover contracts for both articles and books. We’ll also discuss how to protect your copyright, and how to be sure your use of others’ work is permissible.

What you’ll learn:

• What Happens When You Don’t Have a Contract
• Protecting Your Copyright
• Fair Use and Permissions
• Grant of Rights
• Warranties and Indemnities
• Advances and Royalties
• Subsidiary Rights
• Options

Speaker:

Amy Cook is an attorney who has focused on intellectual property and publishing law issues for over 17 years. She is on the board of directors of Lawyers for the Creative Arts and serves as the Managing Editor of the Chicago Bar Association’s magazine, The Record. She is a frequent seminar leader, most often at Chicago’s Newberry Library and also has been a presenter at the University of Chicago’s Graham School of Continuing Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Depaul University, among others. Cook is proud to have a long association with Writer’s Digest magazine, having initiated their "Ask the Lawyer" column, and wrote numerous feature articles on legal issues affecting writers.

Who should attend?

• Writers whose work is ready for sale and anticipate that they will soon be offered a contract
• Writers who have had an unhappy experience with a publishing contract, and want to learn how to make it better next time
• Writers whose last published work was a number of years ago and need a contracts refresher for the digital age
• Those wanting a primer on copyright
• Writers who need to use portions of other writers’ work and are concerned about copyrighted material vs. public domain, fair use, and how to get permission

Register for the Copyrights & Contracts seminar.

---

How does the webinar work?

The live audio is delivered over your telephone or computer speakers. The Power Point presentations and desktop or document sharing are presented over the Internet. This is like a talk-radio program with visuals on the Web. You’ll be able to have a live Q&A chat with the speakers.

What equipment do I need?

All you need is a computer. You will be able to view the slides and listen to the audio over the computer speakers. However, if you are on wireless we recommend you listen to the audio over a phone line as VOIP technology is not as stable on a wireless connection.

Recommended equipment

• PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
• Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer