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The 10 Worst Legal Mistakes a Textbook or Academic Author Can Make

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Publishing lawyer Zick Rubin will provide a countdown of the 10 worst legal mistakes that a textbook or academic author can make. He will alert you to the legal traps that can be found in a range of areas, including provisions in publishing contracts, collaboration agreements, and copyright and permission issues.

Zick Rubin
Zick Rubin
Zick Rubin is an intellectual property attorney based in Newton, MA who devotes his practice to publishing, copyright, trademark, and higher education law. His clients include authors of textbooks, scholarly works, and trade books in virtually every academic discipline. He drafts and negotiates publishing, licensing, and collaboration agreements, advises educational, scientific, and cultural organizations on intellectual property issues, devises strategies for copyright and trademark protection, and helps his clients to resolve intellectual property disputes. A former psychology professor at Harvard and Brandeis Universities, Zick is himself a textbook and trade book author. Before establishing The Law Office of Zick Rubin in 2003, Zick was Of Counsel at the Boston firms of Palmer & Dodge and Hill & Barlow. He has been listed as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer every year since 2004 and was listed in Boston Magazine as one of Boston's five best intellectual property lawyers. He received a B.A. from Yale University (where he was Managing Editor of the Yale Daily News), a PhD in social psychology from the University of Michigan, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He is a long-time member of TAA and has served on the TAA Council.

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