Webinar Description

In this one-hour webinar, you will be introduced to the legalease in several typical publishing industry contracts (traditional publishing, co-author agreements, work-for-hire agreements, licensing and permissions) and learn the secret insider negotiating points that will increase your knowledge in this critical area and enhance your negotiating position when you are at your most valuable ... before you sign!

Coverage during this webinar of negotiation points and the consequences related to the absence or presence of critical language in certain contracts will help those—from the most seasoned author signing with a major publishing firm to an author who aspires to publish or is thinking of working with a collaborator on a project—who seek to demystify the process of signing important agreements operate from a more knowledgeable position.

This webinar will also cover how to get your copyright back after you've entered into a contract.

After attending this webinar you will understand:

• the most common contracts involved in securing, licensing and transferring copyright and other rights
• contracts basics
• basic negotiation methods
• how to protect yourself when you seal the deal
  

Plus, Tonya will field questions from webinar participants during the Q&A session.

About the Instructor

Tonya M. Evans, is Assistant Professor of Law at Widener University School of Law and an attorney specializing in the areas of literary law, intellectual property (copyright and trademark), among other areas of law.

She is the former Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Sports, Entertainment and Art Law Committee, and has served as an adjunct professor of copyright, publishing and licensing at York College of Pennsylvania.

She is a nationally recognized speaker who presents to various audiences regularly on publishing and intellectual property law and estate planning issues.

Professor Evans, known affectionately as "Lawyer by Day, Poet by Night" is also a performance poet and writer, and the author of numerous award-winning books, including Contracts Companion for Writers; Copyright Companion for Writers; Literary Law Guide for Authors: Copyright, Trademark, and Contracts in Plain Language; Seasons of Her and SHINE! Her short story, Not Tonight appears in an anthology titled Proverbs for the People, published by Kensington.