Sellei Law Literary Practice Highlights

Sellei Law has significant experience in all literary matters, including the uses, exploitation, and protection of published and unpublished works in all genres (i.e., fiction, non-fiction, and academic). In most cases, Sellei Law has represented authors, but the firm has also represented illustrators, filmmakers seeking rights to use literary works, editors, and other participants in the literary sector.

 Sellei Law’s experience includes but is not limited to:

• The representation of authors in the full life cycle of the production of a published work

• The negotiation of

  • publishing agreements, literary agent agreements, and translation rights agreements

  • ghostwriting, collaboration, contributor, and co-author agreements

  • option agreements and other book-to-film matters

• Counseling with regard to the acquisition of rights/in-licensing of third-party intellectual property, for inclusion in a book or other creative work

• Guidance re registration of copyright and other copyright matters

• Counseling re rights of privacy, rights of publicity, defamation/libel and other reputational matters

• Providing assistance to authors in navigating a wide variety of self-publishing and non-traditional publishing arrangements
   

A partial list of publishers with whom Sellei Law has negotiated on behalf of clients in recent years includes:

• Bloomsbury

• Candlewick Press

• Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group

• Harper Collins

• Penguin Random House

• Public Affairs

• The MIT Press

• University of Chicago Press

• University of California Press

• Yale University Press

• Multiple foreign publishers (for translation rights)