The Permission Seeker's Guide Through the Legal Jungle: Clearing Copyrights, Trademarks, and Other Rights for Entertainment and Media Productions

by Joy R. Butler

Overview

A Valuable Resource for All Who Must Clear Rights

If you develop, purchase, or distribute original content, you need to clear rights. Rights clearance is essential for authors, publishers, visual artists, musicians, tv producers, filmmakers, website owners, software developers as well as all companies and organizations that advertise and use social media.

Clearing rights means keeping your production free of any material that is likely to spark legal action. Rights an unwary producer might violate include copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy and defamation. Proper rights clearance is not always obvious. And that's where The Permission Seeker's Guide Through the Legal Jungle can assist you. This 450-page production resource:

• explains how to recognize and avoid rights clearance problems
• provides detailed instructions for clearing rights to use quotes, music, artwork, film clips, people's names and faces, brand names, life stories, and many other protected materials
• offers techniques for clearing rights in a way that saves money and minimizes legal risks
• lays out copyright, trademark, privacy, defamation, and other laws relevant to clearing rights
• includes over fifty pages of resources and sample forms

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780967294070
Publisher:	Sashay Communications, LLC
Publication date:	12/31/2016
Series:	Guide Through the Legal Jungle
Edition description:	Updated and Expanded
Pages:	450
Sales rank:	841,234
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

JOY R. BUTLER is an attorney who regularly assists companies and content producers with rights clearance projects.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: OVERVIEW OF RIGHTS CLEARANCE ISSUES
Chapter 1. Guide To Using This book
Chapter 2. Checklist of Clearance Issues

PART TWO: RELEVANT RIGHTS AND LAWS
Chapter 3. Copyright Basics
Chapter 4. Trademark Basics
Chapter 5. Common Elements of Privacy, Publicity, and Defamation Laws
Chapter 6. Right of Privacy
Chapter 7. Right of Publicity
Chapter 8. Defamation
Chapter 9. Other Relevant Rights and Laws

PART THREE: CLEARANCE ISSUES FOR SPECIFIC PRODUCERS
Chapter 10. Clearance Issues for Publishers and Writers
Chapter 11. Clearance Issues for Visual Artists
Chapter 12. Clearance Issues for Musicians and Music Producers
Chapter 13. Clearance Issues For Film, TV and Audio-Visual Producers
Chapter 14. Clearance Issues for Producers of Websites and Software
Chapter 15. Clearance Issues for Business
Chapter 16. Clearance Issues for Political and Cause Marketing Campaigns

PART FOUR: THE PROCESS OF CLEARING RIGHTS AND SEEKING PERMISSION
Chapter 17. Getting Organized
Chapter 18. Putting Your Own House in Order
Chapter 19. Submitting the Request for Permission
Chapter 20. Negotiating the Rights Agreement

PART FIVE: SEEKING PERMISSION TO USE SPECIFIC MATERIALS9
Chapter 21. Clearing Rights and Seeking Permission to Use Books and Other Printed Materials
Chapter 22. Clearing Rights and Seeking Permission to Use Visual Art
Chapter 23. Clearing Rights and Seeking Permission to Use Music
Chapter 24. Clearing Rights and Seeking Permission to Use Film, TV and Video Footage
Chapter 25. Clearing Rights and Seeking Permission to Use Website and Software Materials
Chapter 26. Clearing Rights and Seeking Permission with Respect to People
Chapter 27. Clearing Rights and Seeking Permission to Use Trademarks, Products, and Locations

PART SIX: MINIMIZING YOUR RISKS AND PROTECTING YOURSELF
Chapter 28. Methods of Minimizing Risk
Chapter 29. Dealing with Lawsuits

APPENDICES: RESOURCES AND FORMS
Appendix A. Resources
Appendix B. Forms