Roundtable Discussions Luncheon
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Stuffing the Channel to Foreign Markets
Moderator:
Stephen E. Gillen, Attorney, Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P.
Are you curious about the impact of foreign sales on the domestic market for your book? Perturbed by the increase in low-royalty foreign sales coupled with an apparently corresponding decrease in domestic sales? You're not alone. In a case of what's good for the goose displeases the gander, Cengage has sued Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for "channel stuffing" just prior to the close of Cengage's acquisition of the HMH college business. Learn about the lawsuit and hear what a publisher has to say when the deep-discount-foreign-sales tables are turned.
About the Moderator:
Stephen E. Gillen is an attorney practicing in Cincinnati, Ohio, and concentrating on publishing and entertainment transactions and disputes, Internet issues, advertising law, computer law, copyrights, trademarks, technology transfer, trade secrets, and related matters. Prior to entering private practice in 1994, Gillen served for 8 years as house counsel for an educational publisher, and before that as an executive editor, editor, freelance writer, and published book author. In addition, Gillen has served on copyright and permissions committees with the Association of American Publishers. He has written and spoken nationally on various publishing and copyright topics and teaches a course in Media Business and Law at the University of Cincinnati and a course in Electronic Media Law at the College Conservatory of Music. He currently serves on the Council of Advisors to the Text and Academic Authors Association, the Board of Trustees of Voyageur Media Group, Inc., and is a member of the Authors Guild. Gillen is admitted to practice in Ohio and before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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