Category Archives: #PubLaw

Where Are the Things? Literary Estate Documentation

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Susan Spann

Once you have chosen an executor and written (and signed!) your will or trust, your estate planning job isn’t finished. An author usually knows where his or her work is located and/or sold, and who controls the publishing rights. But … Continue reading →

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PubLaw Goes Visiting!

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Susan Spann

I’m out of the office and away from the computer today, so our regular #PubLaw feature is taking a one-week hiatus. That doesn’t mean you have no #PubLaw today, however! This summer, friend and fellow author Heather Webb, whose debut … Continue reading →

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Counting the Duties – and Costs – of a Literary Executor

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Susan Spann

Welcome back to our continuing Wednesday #PubLaw series on literary executors. Although a general executor can handle the author’s entire estate, including literary issues, authors who name or arrange for a specific literary executor should be aware that literary executors … Continue reading →

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Choosing the Right Literary Executor

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Susan Spann

Today we continue our #PubLaw estate planning workshop with a look at choosing the right literary executor. Although your general executor (or, in the case of a trust, trustee) can also handle intellectual property and copyrights as well as standard … Continue reading →

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Do I Need A Literary Executor?

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Susan Spann

Today’s #PubLaw Wednesday post takes a closer look at how to choose an executor (or trustee) to manage your copyrights and other intellectual property after death. After your death, your copyrights will be owned by your heirs or beneficiaries. These … Continue reading →

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Trusting … But Not in the Force (Author Trusts, Part 2)

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Susan Spann

Last week we started our examination of trusts in the author estate plan with a discussion of the four steps for selecting the right trustee. Today we’ll take a look at how to divide your copyrights and other intellectual property … Continue reading →

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Who Can an Author Trust? (Trusts in Author Estate Planning, Part 1)

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Susan Spann

Today we continue the ongoing series on author estate planning with a look at how to pass copyrights by means of a trust. The language we look at here applies only to revocable trusts, meaning trusts established by a living … Continue reading →

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Author Estate Planning: Nuts, Bolts, and Bequests

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Susan Spann

Welcome back to our continuing series on author estate planning. Today we begin our look at the nuts and bolts of bequeathing copyrights and other intellectual property rights in a will or trust. The distributive language (meaning the language which … Continue reading →

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Author Estate Planning: Who Will You Trust?

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Susan Spann

Last week’s #PubLaw post talked a little about wills in the author estate plan. Today, we’ll look at the second common estate planning device: the trust. In many places, having a trust allows your estate to bypass probate. This, in … Continue reading →

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Will you? Or Will you Not?

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Susan Spann

Our #PubLaw series on estate planning continues today with a brief discussion of wills. As we mentioned last week, authors who have no written estate plan will find their estates (and their copyrighted works) subjected to the laws of the … Continue reading →

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