The Media and Business Contracts Handbook

5th Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-78043-479-7
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY PROFESSIONAL

Buch, Englisch, 874 Seiten, Mixed Media Product with CD-ROM, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1542 g

The Media and Business Contracts Handbook, 5th edition is a master reference book combining a knowledge of contract, copyright and commercial practice to provide over 90 ready to use and adapt expertly drafted contracts, licences, acquisition, distribution, termination, buyout agreements and other documents and letters.

It provides the tools for the user to construct a contract in a logical format and draft the terms in language that both parties can easily understand and put into practice and the accompanying CD-ROM reduces administration time in the office and allows the user to amend the documents quickly or to cut and paste relevant sections and will also be updated.

The Media and Business Contracts Handbook has a number of functions:

1. As a starting point and framework for an agreement;
2. To compare and analyse other contracts you are working on;
3. As a background guide and training tool;
4. As a reference tool for websites and trade codes of practice;
5. The commentaries can be read as guides to the intended aims of a specific contract;
6. The checklist of clauses can be used to ensure you have covered important issues;
7. To achieve a clearer understanding of a transaction.

Previous print ISBN: 9781847039088

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fosbrook, Deborah

Laing, Adrian C

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Apps / Digital;
Website / Internet;
General Business to Business (B2B);
Publishing Agreements;
Agency;
Employment, Contracts for Services, Confidentiality;
Sponsorship and Image Rights;
Advertising, Promotion, Product Placement;
Film and Television Production;

Exploitation of Characters, Designs, Artwork, Photographs and Three Dimensional Works;
Letters and Competition Rules;
Checklist of Clauses;
Codes of Practice and Guidelines;
Legal, Commercial and Business Internet Directory.

Über Autor(innen)

Laing, Adrian C
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.

Fosbrook, Deborah
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 QC who created Anton Pillar orders and Dr Mary Vitoria QC LLB PhD in the chambers of Blanco White QC. 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.

Deborah Fosbrook is a barrister. Previous experience includes Head of Legal and Business Affairs and Company Secretary at TVam plc, the BBC and Thorn EMI.

Adrian C. Laing acts as a strategic and commercial consultant and legal adviser to a wide range of organisations and charities in addition to being a Director and producer of a film company.