"This book should be on every publisher's shelf" The Bookseller

Clark's Publishing Agreements has long been the 'must have' legal resource for the publishing industry. This comprehensive book provides 25 model agreements, from author agreements, merchandising rights and online licensing, to e-book distribution, text and data mining.

Whether you are an experienced drafter of publishing agreements, or new to the industry, Clark's Publishing Agreements: A Book of Precedents will prove invaluable in ensuring that your publishing agreements are expertly and effectively drafted.

For the Twelfth Edition, all the precedents, explanatory notes and appendices have been thoroughly revised to take account of the latest developments, and includes a new Appendix on AI.

This new edition will appeal to the legal practitioner market, copyright practitioners, general IP practitioners, media law practitioners, in-house legal market, publishing houses, and literary agents.

An electronic download containing full text of each of the 25 precedents is available with each copy.

Lynette Owen (General Editor and Contributor) is a freelance copyright and rights consultant. She started her publishing career in rights at Cambridge University Press and also worked at Pitman Publishing and Marshall Cavendish before joining Longman Group Ltd (now Pearson Education) until May 2013 as Copyright Director. She regularly lectures on copyright and rights courses both in the UK and abroad. She is also the author of Selling Rights now in its 9th edition and published by Routledge.

She received the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 and an OBE for services to publishing and international trade in the Queen's New Year Honours in 2009.

Contributors include:

Duncan Calow, Hugh Jones, Tim Lyons, Ryan Black, Tyson Gratton, Kevin Stewart, Rachel Richards, Diane Spivey, Jessica Pennington, Nick Fitzpatrick, Caren Milloy, Carlo Scollo Lavizzari, Kris Kliemann, Clare Hodder, Tom West, Alicia Wise, Stacy Scott, Alexandra Taylor and Natasha Edmonds.