Contract and Copyright Drafting Skills - Clause

Contract and Copyright Drafting Skills is a brand new title which will help you develop and create greater flexibility in your drafting skills. Using clear explanations and practical examples your ability to write clauses, draft, negotiate, analyse and review contracts will be enhanced. It is designed to be used in conjunction with your own precedent bank or alongside The A-Z of Contract Clauses, Sixth Edition.

This title gives guidance on the variety of techniques that can be used in drafting contracts including the significance of the purpose of the agreement and the focus of the outcome. In addition it covers definitions, an important aspect of contract drafting, and also general background factors that can be useful to consider when drafting a contract.

Contract and Copyright Drafting Skills will help you to appreciate the elements that can be edited in a clause thereby widening, decreasing or improving liability, risk, costs, revenue and control of rights. It also explains the process of the expansion, reduction and adaptation of clauses to meet the needs of the circumstances of the parties giving you the confidence to make that assessment and to focus on the aim of achieving the best agreement in the circumstances.

Whether new to contact drafting or an experienced contract drafter, whether a lawyer or non-lawyer Contract and Copyright Drafting Skills will provide you with all the tools and guidance you need to become an expert contract drafter.

List of contents

1 Absence
2 Acceptance
3 Access
4 Accounting Period
5 Accounting Provisions
6 Act of God
7 Adaptation
8 Advertising
9 Agency
10 Amendments
11 Assignment
12 Assignment Fee
13 Assignment Period
14 Cancellation
15 Confidentiality
16 Copyright Clearance
17 Copyright Notice
18 Copyright Warnings
19 Credits
20 Damages
21 Defamation
22 Delivery
23 Disclaimer
24 Editorial Control
25 Exclusivity
26 Force Majeure
27 Format
28 Gross Receipts
29 Indemnity
30 Jurisdiction
31 Legal Proceedings
32 Liability
33 Licence Area
34 Licence Fee
35 Licence Period
36 Logo
37 Marketing
38 Material
39 Mediation
40 Moral Rights
41 Net Receipts
42 Novation
43 Option
44 Payment
45 Rejection
46 Rights
47 Royalties
48 Set-Off
49 Settlement
50 Software
51 Sub-Licence
52 Termination
53 Territory
54 Third Party Transfer
55 Title
56 Trade Marks

About the author

Deborah Fosbrook is a Barrister of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn and has a degree in Business Law. She was fortunate to complete her pupillage with two leading experts the late Professor Sir Hugh Laddie KC who created Anton Pillar orders and Dr Mary Vitoria KC LLB PhD in the chambers of Blanco White KC. That included an appearance in the Court of Appeal which she won arguing against an application for an injunction in a rubik cube case.

Her management experience includes Thorn EMI and Legal and Business Affairs in Programme Acquisition at the BBC. She was the sole in-house lawyer at TVam and was Head of Legal and Business Affairs and deputy Company Secretary as part of the senior management team which turned the company into a financial success. She was then appointed Company Secretary of TVam plc and all its subsidiaries to manage the due diligence process, documentation and marketing of the flotation on the Stock Exchange.

She is the co-author of over 12 books which have been published since 1989. The current books include The A-Z of Contract Clauses Sixth Edition, The Media and Business Contracts Handbook Fifth Edition. These books have been used by leading universities, libraries, societies and institutes as well as manufacturers, television, film and media companies and distributors, publishers, authors, merchandising companies and sponsors worldwide. Reference to The A-Z of Contract Clauses has been made by the European Commission on a report on Quality Control and it is on the recommended list of The Society of Authors.

Her consultancy work has included athletics and she has worked with England Athletics and athletics clubs in North London. The Network was awarded a national award for the region for their achievements.

The latest work of which she is co-author is Contract and Copyright Drafting Skills is to be published in 2016. This book covers 56 subjects to do with drafting and aims to get you to both understand the topics and the choices which you can make as to how clauses can be drafted.
Adrian C. Laing was called to the Bar in 1979, is a Barrister of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple and was enrolled as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in 2003. Adrian Laing first practised as a Tenant in Chambers (2 Pump Court) and then embarked upon a career as a commercial lawyer and consultant working for the IBA (later the ITC) as the Assistant Head of Licensing during the Channel 3 franchise round. Subsequent appointments included: Consultant to the Chief Executive of Thames Television plc; Senior Broadcasting Lawyer at Hammonds, Solicitors; Director of Legal Affairs and Company Secretary to Harper Collins Publishers; Company Director Harper Collins (India) and Proprietor, Laing & Co (2004 to 2015). Adrian currently acts as a private consultant and lawyer to a number of companies and organisations in addition to being a director of a film production company.

Summary

Contract and Copyright Drafting Skills is a brand new title which will help you develop and create greater flexibility in your drafting skills. Using clear explanations and practical examples your ability to write clauses, draft, negotiate, analyse and review contracts will be enhanced. It is designed to be used in conjunction with your own precedent bank or alongside The A-Z of Contract Clauses, Sixth Edition.

This title gives guidance on the variety of techniques that can be used in drafting contracts including the significance of the purpose of the agreement and the focus of the outcome. In addition it covers definitions, an important aspect of contract drafting, and also general background factors that can be useful to consider when drafting a contract.

Contract and Copyright Drafting Skills will help you to appreciate the elements that can be edited in a clause thereby widening, decreasing or improving liability, risk, costs, revenue and control of rights. It also explains the process of the expansion, reduction and adaptation of clauses to meet the needs of the circumstances of the parties giving you the confidence to make that assessment and to focus on the aim of achieving the best agreement in the circumstances.

Whether new to contact drafting or an experienced contract drafter, whether a lawyer or non-lawyer Contract and Copyright Drafting Skills will provide you with all the tools and guidance you need to become an expert contract drafter.

Foreword

Designed to develop and create greater flexibility in drafting skills Contract and Copyright Drafting Skills enhances the ability to draft, negotiate, analyse and review contracts and explains and gives guidance on how to write clauses.

Additional text

Overall, then, this is book of great potential value, and is clearly a labour of love by the authors, who write with authority and precision on an important topic...

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Fosbrook, Deborah Laing Fosbrook, Fosbrook Deborah, Adrian C Laing, Adrian C (Private consultant and lawyer Laing, Adrian C. Laing
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9781780438238
• ISBN: 978-1-78043-823-8
• No. of pages: 856
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; LAW / Intellectual Property / Copyright, LAW / Contracts, contract law, Copyright Law