Vermont Legal Documents Package for Authors and Publishers

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This package includes essential forms for defining the rights and obligations of an author and publisher of written and/or electronic works and preventing future disputes. The forms included are designed to handle the potential issues that may arise in a wide variety of transactions. Purchase of this package is a savings of 50% off purchasing the forms individually!


This package includes the following forms:


Agreement to Co-Publish Book - This agreement is between an investor and the author of a book whereby they agree that investor will invest a sum of money to go to the expenses of publishing and distributing the book in exchange for a percentage of the profits.


Collaboration Agreement Between Writers - This form is a collaboration agreement between two authors to share profits and expenses equally regarding the novel, book, or screenplay, etc. that they are writing together.


Agreement Between Publisher and Author of a Book to Publish a Book - This form is a sample of a standard agreement between a publisher and the author of a book to publish a book.


Assignment of Rights to Unpublished Manuscript - This form is a sample of a standard agreement between a publisher and the author of a book to publish a book.


Publishing Agreement with Author who Reserves Digital Publication Rights - An e-book (short for electronic book, also written eBook) is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents are usually read on personal computers, or on dedicated hardware devices known as e-book readers or e-book devices. This form is an agreement between a publisher and author, with the author reserving electronic publication rights.


Publishing Agreement with Author for Digital Publication Rights as well as Print - This is a comprehensive form covering the terms and rights and obligations of the parties for publication of an e-book. Provisions are made for assignability, record-keeping and accounting, handling of revisions, proofs, royalties, and much more.


Assignment of Publication Rights to E-Books - This form is used to assign the authors publication rights to another, by granting a non-exclusive license to the use of the author's works in electronic form.


Independent Contractor Agreement for the Sale of Book - This form is used by an independent contractor to sell a book, defining the boundaries of the relationship between the parties, terms of the sale, assignability, arbitration of disputes, and more. An independent contractor is a person or business who performs services for another person under an express or implied agreement and who is not subject to the other's control, or right to control, the manner and means of performing the services. The person who hires an independent contractor is not liable to others for the acts or omissions of the independent contractor. An independent contractor is distinguished from an employee, who works regularly for an employer.


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Under the copyright law, the creator of the original expression in a work is its author. The author is also the owner of copyright unless there is a written agreement by which the author assigns the copyright to another person or entity, such as a publisher.

Copyrights are generally owned by the people who create the works of expression, with some important exceptions: If a work is created by an employee in the course of his or her employment, the employer owns the copyright.

Under the copyright law, the creator of the original expression in a work is its author. The author is also the owner of copyright unless there is a written agreement by which the author assigns the copyright to another person or entity, such as a publisher.

But the traditional publisher usually files the copyright at the Library of Congress on behalf of the author, and will show the publisher's name, not yours, as licensee. The publisher's contract with you determines how long a company has the right to publish the work under the author's copyright.

Unless the author self-publishes, the author and publisher are not the same person. The author writes the book, and the publisher, agent, or publishing house will oversee editing, printing, marketing, networking, and sales.

The contract will also include basic things such as your word count (usually 85-100,000 words for commercial fiction), how many books the publisher is buying from you at this stage (usually one or two for a first deal), your delivery dates and planned publication dates, your responsibilities if there are any (such as ...

Under the traditional academic publication model an author typically transfers all copyright interests to a publisher. If authors relinquish all their copyright interests to the publisher, the author loses the ability to use his or her own work without permission from the publisher.

In signing a copyright transfer agreement, the author grants all their rights as author and copyright holder to the publisher. This means that the author may need to seek permission from the publisher if they wish to, for example: Deposit an Open Access version into an institutional repository.

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