Literature

Non-fiction Writer. 18-679 Author has a completed manuscript about depression and suicide and needs legal advice regarding fair use and invasion of privacy....

15-181 Client writes educational materials for a very well-known and prominent arts organization. The organization began using Client's content for marketing purposes and Client seeks help developing a simple license agreement to clarify the scope of use and payment. She has been presented with a very brief agreement to sign and needs advice. Client Type: Pro Bono. Additional Party: Lyric Opera...

Client is developing a series of children's books and needs advice on trademark protection and conducting a search. Client may also need help with an illustrator commissioned work contract....

Client seeks legal assistance to prepare a will. Although she does not own real property or other major assets, she is a children's novelist and has an upcoming book release with Simon & Schuster. Client is unmarried and has no children and she would like to bequeath her copyrights and savings to one or more friends. Client Type: Pro Bono--Client's annual salary is approximately 30K. She...

Client seeks advice on a publishing contract dispute. The publisher terminated the contract and made a partial refund....

Client, a poet and lyricist, recorded his songs with a producer whom he knew very well. He did not sign an agreement and learned that the producer included Client’s recordings on compilation albums without permission. Client seeks help registering copyrights in his lyrics, demanding an accounting and resolving this matter. He may be interested in mediation....

SHOUT Marketing & Media Relations has worked with LCA in the past, though not as a client....

Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client wishes to terminate her agreement with a producer after he failed to turn the screenplay into film. Client seeks assistance resolving this dispute. The producer wrote a screenplay adapted from Client’s self-published book Dance with an Angel. Client raised funds (21K) through personal donations to the...

15-216 Client seeks help negotiating a children's book contract. He received some input from the Authors Guild and would like to make some contract changes prior to proceeding. Client Type: Reduced Fee. Additional Known Party: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc....

A writer who did a radio interview of a well known music professional, wants to write a book about the experience and needs legal advice regarding rights of publicity....