Literature

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Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client seeks advice on right of privacy and other issues related to the publication of her book. The book is based on real events and various interviewee and other narrative accounts, including letters read over the phone. Most of the individuals interviewed were Peace Corps volunteers in Afghanistan. Clien...

Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client seeks legal help negotiating a publishing contract to distribute her romance novel through e-publishing. She is concerned about the duration of the agreement and the breadth of rights the publisher wants to obtain. This is Client's first book, and she wants to be sure she understands all terms of the ...

Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client needs immediate help responding to the talent manager of a playwright, who is concerned that Client's stage play, titled Homosexuals, (scheduled to mount in mid-June) may include portion's of one of the playwright's stage plays, titled The Boys in the Band. Client indicated this is all a miscommunica...

Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client is a performing artist who was thrown out of a professional club. He would like to create a public artistic demonstration or otherwise produce literary criticism. He seeks legal advice regarding potential liability. Adverse: The University Club Client Type: Pro Bono...

Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client, a freelance writer, needs help with a writing services agreement. She is ghostwriting a memoir based on the life of a talented photojournalist and would like some advice on copyright interests in the photographs the subject authored while working for a newspaper that has since dissolved. Client would...

Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client seeks advice on a publishing offer from a United Kingdom publisher. Client created a graphic novel and this is his first publishing offer. Additional Known Party: Markosia Enterprises Client Type: Pro Bono...

Client, a writer of adult fantasy fiction, seeks copyright advice on whether a particular well-known work has fallen into the public domain. Client's research suggests that the author created several literary works featuring a primary character. A major film production company is the trademark registrant for the character's name under the following descriptions: 1) production and distribution ...

Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client seeks advice regarding a right of first refusal clause in a publishing contract. He is developing a book titled, BIM and Integrated Design, an architecture book on integration and collaboration. He now wishes to co-write and self-publish a book and seeks advice on his obligations to his previous publi...

15-120 Client published a dissertation that she now wants to sell in book form. She obtained permission to include biographical information about a subject, now deceased. She seeks advice to clear rights to additional third party content, quoted in the work. Client Type: Pro Bono. Johnnie Coleman [Subject]...