Understanding Publishing Contracts

An introduction to intellectual property contracts for authors, illustrators, agents, editors and other publishing staff

Created by: Paul Baxter
Instructor at Udemy

What Will I Learn?

• Understand elements of a publishing contract
• View a publishing contract as a publisher, creator or agent
• Learn everything from royalty calculations used to types of intellectual property right grantings
• Learn how to draft and negotiate these elements with contract examples

Requirements

• No legal or contracts experience needed. This course is helpful to creators looking to enter into a publishing deal armed with knowledge, an agent representing others, someone working in another area of publishing looking to broaden their understanding or someone new to a publishing contracts role.

Target audience

• Authors, illustrators, agents, publishing employees or junior contracts staff looking to understand publishing contracts and the meaning behind different provisions alongside examples
• This course concentrates on laws within the UK but contains a lot of relevant and transferrable information for anyone outside of the UK