Literature

Client agreed to ghost-write an academic business how to book for a professor. The parties have agreed to basic terms and begun the project and Client seeks help drafting an agreement....

Client, who runs a struggling free Serbian cultural newspaper, seeks counsel to defend her against a copyright infringement suit brought by a photographer. Client admittedly used the photographer's image but removed it from her website immediately upon notice from the plaintiff. Client states the photographer shot the image at a local museum. The museum claims the photographer exceeded or otherwis...

Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: In 2005, Client entered into a publishing contract to publish a novel. She did not seek legal counsel at that time but did compare the agreement to a form produced by a writer's guild. Client worked with the publisher's editor and made a number of changes at the editor's request. The editor later made her o...

19-086 Music producer needs help understanding the current law around the use of music samples in his work....

Client, a not-for-profit Illinois corporation, published a journal and needs advice on copyright and assistance drafting a licensing agreement for contributing writers....

Clearance: Publishing. Award winning author needs clearance help before sending her novel to publishers....

Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client, a writer, needs copyright advice on his new screenplay. He wants help registering copyright in completed portions and advice on how to protect himself from infringement while pitching the story. Client Type: Pro Bono...

15-108 Client seeks advice on trademark protection. He wishes to register a name and/or logo on an ITU basis and needs some initial counsel on name availability and timing. He expects to release a book and music under his intended brand name and registered copyright in a related visual image he may wish to use as a logo. Client Type: Pro Bono. Mark: Agg'in and/or the Agg'in Tribe...

Client needs help reviewing a contract to ghost write two books....

15-206 Client is the heir to a large body of stage plays and needs help negotiating licenses to several parties, including a prominent local and several foreign theaters. Client is retired, living on a fixed income that exceeds LCA's pro bono criteria and will have difficulty affording counsel. Client's father passed away without a will. Prior to death, he transferred all of his writings along wit...