"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 to merchandising rights to online licensing to e-book distribution to 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 including 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.

Authoritative, well-presented and extremely thoughtful on a number of levels … I find the practical aspects of this book are incomparable in their utility … This book is, in a word, indispensable. * Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (of the 11th edition) *

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 7th 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, Chris Bennett, Aleksandar Kaludjerovic, Kevin Stewart, Rachel Richards, Diane Spivey, Suzanne Barlow, Anji Clarke, Michael Ridley, Alan Williams, Nick Fitzpatrick, Anna Vernon, Carlo Scollo Lavizzari, Andrea Shallcross, Claire Hodder, Sarah Faulder, Alicia Wise, Catriona Stevenson and Huw Alexander.