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Navigate the legal landscape of publishing: A writer’s essential guide.

Law and Authors

A Legal Handbook for Writers

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    4 August 2020

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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
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
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Law and Authors by Jacqueline D. Lipton - ISBN: 9780520301818
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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”

About The Author

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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