Literature

A major part of our practice is the specialist legal advice we provide with respect to all aspects of the Publishing Industry.

Our experience and advice covers global licensing and contractual Publishing Arrangements.

The extent of our ongoing personal support for, and degree of involvement with, the literature industries has been recognised with Mr Frankel, being honoured in 2003 with life membership of the Australian Society of Authors. We also maintain a close professional relationship with the Australian Writers Guild. Mr Frankel was also previously the author-elected representative to the Board of the publishing industry's collecting society, the Copyright Agency Limited.

We represent both established and new writers in:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Educational
• Film
• Theatre
• Television
• On-line Publishing
• Multi Media
• Sports Publications
• Public Policy Publications

We represent:

• Book Publishers
• Newspaper Publishers
• Academic Journal Publishers (including the establishment of Academic Journals their distribution in the United Kingdom and the United States).
• Major Writers
• Photographers
• Illustrators
• Leading Academics For Journal And Book Publishing
• Artists For Art Publications And Science Publishing.

Overlapping our specialist knowledge of the Media, Defamation And Broadcasting, we are regularly retained to provide legal advice about the potential defamatory nature of publications, broadcasts, manuscripts and the like.