- November 16, 2012Co-author, Gerald M. Levine Authors’ incomes generally come from royalties and licensing revenues for works protected by copyright. He or…
- September 14, 2012Originally published as a Guest Blog on Writer Beware® September 7, 2012 Co-author, Gerald M. Levine There is a reason…
- September 4, 2012Co-author, Gerald M. Levine The traditional publishing process begins with an editor’s enthusiastic response to an author’s outline, proposal, and…
- August 23, 2012Co-author, Gerald M. Levine Publishers expect and demand exclusive rights for exploiting literary works. When lawyers talk about “standard” clauses…
- April 10, 2012Co-author Gerad M. Levine Whether money is the motive for writing – "[n]o man but a blockhead ever wrote, except…
- March 29, 2012Co-author Gerald M. Levine Including a work in a collection or compilation depends on who owns the copyright and the…
- March 18, 2012Co-author, Gerald M. Levine Literary agents stand in relation to authors as adventurers to booty: payday depends on placing literary…
- March 7, 2012Co-author Gerald M. Levine Publishers typically offer an unsatisfactory reversion of rights clause so it is prudent to negotiate for…
- February 29, 2012Co-author Gerald M. Levine Literary collaboration is a marriage of convenience. There are perils in ambiguous and incomplete agreements. The…
- February 22, 2012Co-author Gerald M. Levine Authors ask whether they can protect their ideas by which they mean the conception rather than…
- February 15, 2012Co-author Gerald M. Levine There is a statutory remedy for removing an infringing copy from the Internet. It can be taken…
- February 8, 2012Authors are generally well attuned to copyright for their separately standing works and the consequences of failing to register, but…