The market leading comprehensive resource providing model agreements for a wide range of publishing contracts.

"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 Eleventh Edition, all the precedents, explanatory notes and appendices have been thoroughly revised to take account of the latest developments including:

- Precedent for a social media influencer
- New precedent on Open Access book author agreements
- Coverage of audio deals, including arrangements with narrators
- Electronic download of the precedents for you to adapt and use in your contracts

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.

"[O]ffers extensive solid advice on the building blocks of that portfolio of rights, and as such, is an excellent resource for any publisher, agent, or attorney operating in the publishing sector ... I highly recommend this title, and consider it an essential addition to a Rights Licensing Bookshelf for all rights licensing practitioners." - Publishing Research Quarterly, Review of 11th edition

"It is a true tour de force from key people in the publishing industry...Clark’s really is a truly indispensable work of reference for any publisher or literary agent who wishes to undertake their work in a professional and commercial manner for the benefit of all parties involved." - Review of the 9th edition

"This authoritative and well-presented book is unreservedly recommended." - European Intellectual Property Review

"more useful than ever...the extensive notes on the Precedents are the real gold dust...Clark’s is the voice of reason" - Review of the 9th edition

"Clark’s Publishing Agreements (9th edition) is an indispensable work for all publishers and for many others who work in the publishing industry" - Review of the 9th edition

"This book should be on every publisher's shelf" - Review of a previous edition

"The book's great strengths are its notes and commentary" - Review of a previous edition

"superb...Another Herculean effort by Lynette Owen and her team" - Logos

"Every word is priceless" - Editing Matters

"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)