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Renewing your publishing contracts

25 Apr 2012
Posted in Publishing Law

Perhaps because author agreements last a long time, many publishers use the same standard contract for a long period. Many years may pass by between comprehensive contract reviews. If you are a publisher, and your contracts are starting to look a little archaic, then this post should help you. It highlights some of the key […]

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Unwritten author contracts

23 Apr 2012
Posted in Publishing Law

Let’s suppose you’ve published a book by a new author.  You didn’t produce a contract document at the time, or perhaps you did produce a contract document, but it was never signed.  You agreed the basics – advance, royalty rates and so on – in an exchange of emails.  And perhaps you’ve paid the advance […]

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Indemnities in IT contracts

20 Apr 2012
Posted in Contract Law, Information Technology Law

Should you include an indemnity in your IT contract?  And if so, what sort of indemnity?  Indemnities in IT contracts come in many different shapes and sizes.  Whether it is appropriate to include an indemnity in a given contract will depend upon a range of factors.  In this post, I explore some of these factors. […]

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How copyright protects websites

19 Apr 2012
Posted in Intellectual Property Law, Internet Law

There is no copyright in a website as such, but copyright will usually protect some or all of the elements of a website.  Copyright protects specific classes of “work”.  Those classes are enumerated in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.    Section 1(1) provides: Copyright is a property right which subsists in accordance with this […]

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Product photography and copyright law

17 Apr 2012
Posted in Intellectual Property Law

There are two aspects to photographic copyright: photographs may be protected by copyright, but may also infringe copyright.  A photograph of a painting could infringe the copyright in the painting, and a photograph of a photograph could likewise infringe.  That much is well-known to most photographers. The position with respect to photographs of other artefacts […]

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Online law resources

13 Apr 2012
Posted in Internet Law

These online law resources have been chosen to help you to research, at a general level, some of the more important legal issues affecting websites and the internet. They focus on English and EU law issues, and cover the following subjects: accessibility, copyright, criminal law, data protection, defamation, domain names, ecommerce law, emarketing law and […]

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Copyright licences under the CDPA

11 Apr 2012
Posted in Intellectual Property Law

One of the great things about copyright is the flexibility of licensing.  Copyright licences can be for a particular right, for a particular area, for a particular period, and subject to almost any conditions you can dream up.   As a junior lawyer involved in a music industry contract review exercise, I remember seeing a licence […]

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Legal checklist: user generated content

07 Apr 2012
Posted in Internet Law

The web has changed radically since 2005.  We’ve seen the rise of some websites, the demise of others; the evolution of new business models and the senescence of others; new languages, new technologies and new platforms have driven a revolution in web culture; and the principle that gives unity to that revolution is the principle […]

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Contract liability caps under UCTA

06 Apr 2012
Posted in Contract Law

Contractual caps on the liability of a business must usually be reasonable if they are to be enforceable under English law.  There are various tools the courts use to control liability caps, but the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 is probably the most important.  UCTA applies to most business contracts, but there are exceptions (e.g. […]

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