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Upcoming Speaking Dates:

Lloyd Jassin will be speaking at the Author 101 University on May 28, 2009 in NYC - right before BEA. Other speakers include Mark Victor Hansen, Rick Frishman and John Kremmer. For more information click here.

He will also be speaking at Mark Victor Hansen's Mega Book Marketing University June 5 - 7, 2009 in Orlando, FL; and, on Saturday, July 18, 2009 at the Romance Writers of America's 29th Annual National Conference in Washington, DC For more info on the RWA event click here.

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Selecting and Protecting the Title of Your Book

How to Use Trademark Law to Create Multiple Passive
Income Streams & Avert Legal Battles
 

By Lloyd J. Jassin


A great title can contribute tremendously to a book’s success. It can also create opportunities for multiple passive income streams from licensing the sale of book-related merchandise and paraphernalia.

In this article, I will share with you valuable tips on how to determine the availability of a title, secure its ownership, develop valuable licensing streams from it, and protect against its unauthorized use by intellectual property pirates.   More

About The Law Firm
The Law Offices of Lloyd J. Jassin provides a full range of legal services on book publishing, entertainment, copyright, trademark, licensing, internet and corporate law matters.
Call us at 212-354-4442.
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What NOT To Miss When Drafting & Negotiating Your
Book Publishing Contract


By Lloyd J. Jassin

Drafting and negotiating contracts is viewed by some publishers as wasteful and time consuming
....While it is difficult to see how your publishing agreement will play out in the long term, the decisions you make today could have profound, long term consequences... More

 

TIP:  Keep in mind that both identical and confusingly similar marks for related goods and service may be entitled to trademark protection, and that a trademark owner need not register their mark federally to enjoy trademark protection.

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