{"id":88,"date":"2011-08-04T10:29:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2011-08-04T11:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T17:03:23","slug":"ip-lawyers-how-and-why-and-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"IP Lawyers &#8211; How and why and who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a link post, gathering together a bunch of items regarding IP lawyers for vetting publishing contracts. I wanted to gather all this stuff together so I could find it easily later on.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Originally found via today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/kriswrites.com\/2011\/08\/03\/the-business-rusch-deal-breakers-continued\/\">Business Rusch blog post<\/a> by Kris Rusch, which has great details about lawyers and contracts, including invaluable information about dubious contract clauses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 More on the subject from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepassivevoice.com\/08\/2011\/how-to-hire-an-ip-lawyer\/\">Passive Guy<\/a>, who is writing a book on IP contracts that you should watch out for.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Laura Resnick on <a href=\"http:\/\/sff.net\/people\/laresnick\/Excerpts\/Lawyers.htm#WhyHire\">Why Should a Writer Hire a Lawyer<\/a>, and from Laura&#8217;s Writers Resource Page, a <a href=\"http:\/\/sff.net\/people\/laresnick\/About%20Writing\/Writers%20Resource.htm#Lawyers\">list of literary lawyers<\/a> she recommends.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Following up with a post by Annie Reed, in which she insists that <a href=\"http:\/\/anniereed.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/01\/lawyers-are-just-people-too\/\">Lawyers Are Just People Too<\/a>. I know quite a few (mostly non-IP) lawyers, and can vouch for the truth of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a link post, gathering together a bunch of items regarding IP lawyers for vetting publishing contracts. I wanted to gather all this stuff together so I could find it easily later on. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Originally found via today&#8217;s Business <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/?p=88\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-publishing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x1Kd-1q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}