The Writer Got Screwed (but didn't have to): Guide to the Legal and Business Practices of Writing for the Entertainment Indus – A Hollywood Attorney's Toolkit: Protect Your Screenplays and TV Career - Softcover

Wharton, Brooke A.

 
9780062732361: The Writer Got Screwed (but didn't have to): Guide to the Legal and Business Practices of Writing for the Entertainment Indus – A Hollywood Attorney's Toolkit: Protect Your Screenplays and TV Career
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0062732366 ISBN 13: 9780062732361
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

An indispensable roadmap to success, The Writer Got Screwed is the first book to untangle the legal and business aspects of writing for the entertainment industry. 

It is for the young TV production assistant waiting for a big break, the executive with a treatment tucked away in a bottom drawer, the techie targeting the new field of cyberspace writing, or anyone who is inspired to write screenplays. Savvy Hollywood entertainment attorney Brooke Wharton decodes legal jargon, explains how to protect creative work, shows how to read between the lines of a contract, and advises how to avoid getting sued and screwed along the way. 

Useful resources, including a list of agencies, competitions, fellowships, internships, and legal organizations, make The Writer Got Screwed an essential part of every writer's tool chest.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brooke Wharton is a Hollywood entertainment and copyright lawyer whose clients include some of the industry's top names. She is a member of the faculty of USC's School of Cinema/Television, where she has created a program concerning the business of writing for the entertainment industry. She lectures frequently at California Institute of the Arts, Art Center College of Design, The Directors Guild of America and The National Society of Film Educators.

She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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An indispensable roadmap to success, The Writer Got Screwed is the first book to untangle the legal and business aspects of writing for the entertainment industry. It is for the young TV production assistant waiting for a big break, the executive with a treatment tucked away in a bottom drawer, the techie targeting the new field of cyberspace writing, or anyone who is inspired to write screenplays.

Savvy Hollywood entertainment attorney Brooke Wharton decodes legal jargon, explains how to protect creative work, shows how to read between the lines of a contract, and advises how to avoid getting sued and screwed along the way. Useful resources, including a list of agencies, competitions, fellowships, internships, and legal organizations, make The Writer Got Screwed an essential part of every writer's tool chest.

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Verlag
Harper Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0062732366
ISBN 13 
9780062732361
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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