Law and Authors
A Legal Handbook for Writers
$32.75
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
4 August 2020
Summary
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 st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520301818 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520301811 |
| Author: | Jacqueline D. Lipton |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 152mm x 203mm |
Critics Review
“Law and Authors is a very well-written book that should satisfy the needs of most writers in understanding the basics of publishing law.”
“Law and Authors is a very well-written book that should satisfy the needs of most writers in understanding the basics of publishing law.”
– “Publishing Research Quarterly”Jacqueline D. Lipton
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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