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Literary Property and Publishing Practice

Literary property is an especially important area of entertainment, arts and media law. Often, a book, magazine article, or story will spark many other entertainment-related products such as television shows, movies, or action figures.  An entertainment lawyer must be familiar with this process and available to help exploit opportunities for his clients in these areas.

The Law Office of Barry Oliver Chase represents clients in all areas of
literary property and publishing, including books, magazines, newspapers, comic books, websites, screenplays, stage plays, teleplays and any other type of print media.  Mr. Chase does business regularly in Spanish; so he is available to assist international and Spanish-speaking clients with their literary property and publishing needs.

Part of the firm's practice includes representing publishers, literary agencies and authors in conjunction with literary property and publishing agreements, and exploitation of ancillary rights arising from literary property and publishing agreements.  Literary property and publishing requires that a lawyer understand not only contract and negotiation principles, but constitutional law, torts, and intellectual property issues as well.

Some of the firm's specific areas of focus include:

• Author-publisher contracts
• Author-"ghostwriter" contracts
• Copyright, titles and trademarks
• Electronic literary property and publishing
• First Amendment, defamation and privacy
• International marketing
• Joint authorship and collaborations
• Literary agents

If you have any further questions, or would like to speak with Mr. Chase regarding your literary property or publishing law issue, please do not hesitate to call the Law Office of Barry Oliver Chase at (305) 373-7665, or fill out the Guestbook form and Mr. Chase or his assistant will be in touch with you shortly.