"This useful practical manual consists of a range of model contracts and users’ guides put together by Lynette Owen, Rights Director of Pearson Education Ltd., and well known for her classic tex ... t “Selling Rights”. The contracts draw on a variety of publishing agreements currently in use in the book trade, but have been adapted for use by the African publishing and printing industries, and there are also explanatory notes to cover the relationships between key players in contractual negotiations. The book is divided into three major sections: Chapter I deals with author contracts and provides a model for an author-publisher contract, together with a model for a contractual letter between an author and a literary agent. Chapter II covers the relationship of publishers with their suppliers and distributors via contractual agreements, including a model for a printer’s terms of contract, and one for a contract with an agent or distributor for sales and marketing of a publisher’s list. Chapter III covers the aspect of publishers’ agreements with licensees covering a variety of rights deals. Models, and accompanying users’ guides, are provided for four such rights agreements (i) Same Language Reprint License: Royalty Agreement, (ii) Translation License: Royalty Agreement, (iii) Co-edition Translation Contract, and, (iv) Co-edition Same Language Contract." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2240) more

"A collection of six papers that aim to fill a void in the current debate about copyright and, at the same time, to bring some balance to the debate by providing a number of perspectives from the developing world. These include a paper by Henry Chakava “International Copyright and Africa: An Unequ ... al Exchange” and one by Urvashi Butalia “The Issues at Stake: An Indian Perspective on Copyright”. Lynette Owen, Rights and Contracts Director at Longman’s, provides a perspective on copyright by that of a UK publisher." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1743) more