Literature

Startup Help. A writer and an illustrator are going into business together to design greeting cards and need help with bylaws and general startup advice....

Based upon limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client, a local filmmaker, seeks help finalizing a contract to acquire rights to adapt a comic book to a screenplay and later motion picture. Client has terms in mind and wants help revising the contract he drafted. Additional Known Party: Joseph Rubin Client Type: Pro Bono...

Based on limited conversation during regular client intake, LCA learned the following: Client is an educator who has written and published an award winning young adult novel. She has a contract with the publisher for a second book and the publisher has offered to publish a third book. Client signed contracts for her first two books essentially without legal review. The second book is currently in...

Client, a writer, would like to develop a long term relationship with an attorney who can help her set up a business so that she can write under a pseudonym, provide her with legal advice regarding intellectual property protection and represent her in connection with negotiating publishing contracts....

Client, a playwright, seeks advice on a play she created featuring the life of a deceased individual. Client based the play primarily off of facts in a written obituary and other primary sources. The featured character rowed across the Atlantic in life, leaving behind a widow. Client believes he resided in Nevada. She seeks advice on privacy and right of publicity rights, if any, that may have...

15-122 Client, a well-known writer, seeks assistance applying for social security benefits. He spent the better part of last year in the hospital obtaining chemo treatment for advanced (stage 4) cancer. Client Type: Pro Bono....

trademark/domain dispute and copyright licensing help needed--see Y drive assessment...

Internet Dispute. A blogger who used a Creative Commons image with proper attribution received a cease and desist letter from an attorney in France alleging infringement and requesting payment. Client needs legal help to review the documents and provide advice....

15-187 Client seeks help reviewing a publishing contract with a 5K advance. She has income over LCA's pro bono criteria and can pay a reduced or deferred fee. Alison wrote a narrative nonfiction book based on wrongfully convicted individuals and how they are rebuilding their lives. She is a commenter on WBEZ and hosted a series on the same topic. She also did video interviews of several of the boo...

Client, while completing his PhD, wrote an autobiography of a local civil rights leader, who now disputes use of his voice/image/story. This subject sat for over 30 taped interviews, consenting to use for the biography and the parties discussed making a film. The parties had a falling out over rights to the content and Client seeks help responding to a letter from the subject's lawyer. Although he...