Publishing & Literary Rights

We know publishing.

From indie to Big 5 publishers and everything in between, we know the publishing industry from personal and professional experience. Let Tisha help you navigate your way through contracts, negotiations, subsidiary rights, and option purchase deals. We offer hourly and flat fee rates to meet every budget.

Author Tisha Morris

We love authors.

As a best-selling author of five books, Tisha Morris, founder of Legacy Arts Law, specializes in protecting, preserving, and exploiting literary rights of authors, publishers, and estates.

We represent authors and publishing companies in negotiating and drafting publishing agreements, legal review of manuscripts, and all subsidiary rights, including books to screen, shopping agreements, ghost writing agreements, collaboration agreements, option purchase agreements, and much more.

Legal Vetting Manuscripts

Legal clearance for authors, publishers, and literary agents seeking a pre-publication legal review before release.

Before your manuscript goes to print, a legal review can help identify and reduce potential legal risks while preserving the integrity of your story. We specialize in reviewing nonfiction and fiction manuscripts for any legal considerations that may arise from real people, events, or third-party content.

Whether you're writing a memoir, investigative nonfiction, biography, or a novel inspired by real life, our goal is to help you publish with greater confidence within First Amendment protections and to identify any potential issues and offer practical solutions that protect both your work and your creative vision.

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  • One of the more common legal claims when it comes to including real, identifiable people in a book.

  • Privacy rights vary from state to state, but are one of the most common red flags I find in manuscripts when writing about personal, sensitive issues involving other people.

  • Using other’s material in the form of copyright or trademarks is an often overlooked area for authors. It can also be one of the more gray areas to evaluate when it comes to fair use.

  • It’s easy to forget about an NDA you signed years ago that prohibits your from discussing certain events. A legal review can narrow in what is okay and not okay based on prior NDAs.

  • Knowing what is and isn’t off limits when it comes to including famous people living and post-mortem can be tricky, particularly with California’s new postmortem rights around name and likeness.

  • While companies can’t be defamed in the same way individuals can, they do have certain rights when it comes to disparagement.

  • Although not a common claim, a legal review takes into account any viable tort claim that could be brought against the author.

Legal Vetting fees are priced as a flat fee based on word count. Includes a legal opinion letter and suggested edits.

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