Publishing Forms and Contracts

Roy Kaufman

lip 2008 · Oxford University Press

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Publishing continues to be a major industry worldwide, and this book is designed to assist the thousands of entities that regularly contract into a variety of agreements and need advice in drafting or negotiating the best terms for a deal, or otherwise employing or understanding specific terms used. This book-written and compiled by the in-house counsel of a major publishing house-offers more than 80 forms and templates of all of the major agreements regularly encountered by a publishing company, with strategic commentary on their use. Topics covered include book publishing, periodical publishing, electronic publishing, litigation/litigation avoidance, e-commerce and permissions/subsidiary rights. Each chapter begins with introductory text setting forth key issues and other insights, and then presents the related forms, which in turn are accompanied by drafting and negotiating tips. An accompanying CD-ROM to the book contains all of the forms in electronic format, which can easily be modified for the customer's use.

O autorze

Roy Kaufman is Legal Director of John Wiley and Sons, Inc., a global multinational publisher. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Copyright Clearance Center, where he sits on the Rights holders and Library Advisory Committees. A member of the Bar of the State of New York, he currently belongs to the Freedom to Read and Lawyers Committees of the Association of American Publishers, and the Copyright Committee of International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers. Mr. Kaufman has represented and counseled publishing companies in every segment of print, continuity, online and electronic publishing. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Art Law Handbook: From Antiquities to the Internet (Aspen Law & Business 2000). He has published and lectured extensively on the subjects of copyright, licensing, anti-piracy, new media, artists' rights, publishing and art law. Prior to joining Wiley, Roy was an associate in the intellectual property and entertainment practice group of the New York office of the law firm Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker.