Multimedia Contracts Rights and Licensing

As new technologies in the field of multimedia continue to create overlapping markets, requiring new legal and regulating frameworks, traditional copyrights and licensing issues are also being juggled and stretched, resulting in a huge need for practical, expert guidance in this area. This report provides an explanation of the complex technology involved in multimedia products. With step-by-step advice on setting up a multimedia deal, it enables practitioners from both the legal and business sides to understand both the technology and the industry as a whole. Divided into four main sections, the work provides: a description of multimedia and multimedia markets; an analysis of the legal and regulatory framework relating to multimedia; practical guidance on producing a multimedia work; and an examination of the distribution of multimedia products. The book also contains a glossary of technical terms and illustrates the subject matter with the use of flowcharts, tables, diagrams and checklists.