Your rights as an author

Your rights as an author

ByJosh Bernoff

Authors and their publishers are partners. But partners need clarity regarding their rights in a relationship. As an author working with a publisher, you have the right to review and approve: If your publishing contract does not include these elements, ask that they be included. Even if your signed publishing agreement does not include these…

You can count on the Bill of Rights. Except when you can’t.

You can count on the Bill of Rights. Except when you can’t.

ByJosh Bernoff

The Bill of Rights — the first and most important ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution — spell out our sacred and irrefutable rights in America: free speech, the right to bear arms, and so on. In the vast and powerful imagination of Americans, these rights are inviolable. In reality, every one of them is…