Typical work includes the following:

• Advising publishers on a variety of publishing issues, including contractual relationships with authors and with other publishers, copyright issues, confidentiality and issues relating to their websites eg Terms and Conditions of Use of websites, privacy policies; and drafting and advising on all necessary documents, such as:
  Publishing contracts (for books, journals etc)
  Confidentiality agreements
  Assignments of copyright
  Software licences
  Distribution agreements
  Licences of multimedia rights
  Online publication user agreements
  Contracts with editors and freelance contributors
  Contracts for acquisition or sale/licensing of translation rights
  Contracts for international co-editions
  Contracts for commissioning of artwork
  Model releases
  Waivers of moral rights
  Inducement letters
  Merchandising licences
  
  
• Advising authors (including authors of fiction, authors of professional books, and illustrators) on book publishing contracts and/or contracts for the exploitation of other rights (e.g. film and TV rights) and negotiating on their behalf; including
  Book publishing contracts (print and electronic publishing)
  Option and assignment or licence of film/TV and other rights
  Licences of video/CD-ROM/computer games rights
  Screenwriting agreements
  TV Presenter agreements
  
  
• Advising publishers on their standard forms of contract, particularly for new areas of activity for them, e.g. Internet or CD Rom publishing, and negotiating contracts for them, e.g. with other publishers or with other licensors; including
  Multimedia product development agreements
  Multimedia product distribution agreements;
  
  
• Advising publishers on acquisition of titles from other publishers