Can I Write That While They're Still Alive?
Boris Kachka, Elinor Lipman and Jan Constantine join Bridget Marmion on March 2
Join us live onsite or online! We now offer remote access to a live stream of our Conference Room Confabs. To join us online, simply purchase the "Remote Access" ticket and we'll email you the code and link and instructions you need 48 hours before the event.
Whether your work will appear in a book, blog, magazine, newspaper, play, or on your own social media, JOIN US ON MARCH 2 to learn the rules and protocol every writer should know today. Agents, editors, publicists and your marketing team should also attend.
YOUR EXPERT NATION is proud to present two notable authors, ELINOR LIPMAN and BORIS KACHKA, along with JAN CONSTANTINE, General Counsel for the Authors Guild, who will discuss CAN I WRITE THAT WHILE THEY'RE STILL ALIVE?
Do you understand the differences between defamation, libel, slander, invasion of privacy and know how to avoid each? What are the concerns, and some suggested solutions, when it’s your own life and family you’re writing about? Or if the subject is dead? What "rules" must a novelist keep in mind? A blogger? A publicist? Can you reprint a photo/story from a newspaper/mag for promo use including their logo? What are the procedures/rules re fair use, copyright, trademarked material?
You can JOIN US IN OUR UNION SQUARE, NYC, CONFERENCE ROOM or ON THE WEB on MARCH 2. Yes, we are live-streaming this event. Please indicate your preference when you purchase your ticket.
About our panelists
BORIS KACHKA is the author of Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux and a longtime contributing editor at New York magazine.
ELINOR LIPMAN, best known for her 10 novels, including The Inn at Lake Devine, is also the author of an essay collection, and a book of rhyming political tweets. Two of her essays have been New York Times “Modern Love” columns, and more than a dozen have been published in the Boston Globe’s “Coupling” and “Connections” columns.
JAN CONSTANTINE has been General Counsel for The Authors Guild, a non-profit organization representing a membership of over 8,500 published authors and freelancers, since 2005. Previously, Ms. Constantine was Executive Vice President of News Corporation and, prior to that, Deputy General Counsel for Macmillan, Inc.
BRIDGET MARMION, Panel Moderator, spent over a decade each at Farrar Straus Giroux, Random House and Houghton Mifflin, mostly as SVP, Marketing. In 2012, she launched YOUR EXPERT NATION, Inc., a full-service marketing firm.
The Conference Room Confabs Series
Can I Write That While They're Still Alive? is part of a series of Conference Room Confabs Your Expert Nation hosts every other month. The next one will be on May 4.
Please email richardpkelley@gmail.com with any questions.
Boris Kachka, Elinor Lipman and Jan Constantine join Bridget Marmion on March 2
Join us live onsite or online! We now offer remote access to a live stream of our Conference Room Confabs. To join us online, simply purchase the "Remote Access" ticket and we'll email you the code and link and instructions you need 48 hours before the event.
Whether your work will appear in a book, blog, magazine, newspaper, play, or on your own social media, JOIN US ON MARCH 2 to learn the rules and protocol every writer should know today. Agents, editors, publicists and your marketing team should also attend.
YOUR EXPERT NATION is proud to present two notable authors, ELINOR LIPMAN and BORIS KACHKA, along with JAN CONSTANTINE, General Counsel for the Authors Guild, who will discuss CAN I WRITE THAT WHILE THEY'RE STILL ALIVE?
Do you understand the differences between defamation, libel, slander, invasion of privacy and know how to avoid each? What are the concerns, and some suggested solutions, when it’s your own life and family you’re writing about? Or if the subject is dead? What "rules" must a novelist keep in mind? A blogger? A publicist? Can you reprint a photo/story from a newspaper/mag for promo use including their logo? What are the procedures/rules re fair use, copyright, trademarked material?
You can JOIN US IN OUR UNION SQUARE, NYC, CONFERENCE ROOM or ON THE WEB on MARCH 2. Yes, we are live-streaming this event. Please indicate your preference when you purchase your ticket.
About our panelists
BORIS KACHKA is the author of Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux and a longtime contributing editor at New York magazine.
ELINOR LIPMAN, best known for her 10 novels, including The Inn at Lake Devine, is also the author of an essay collection, and a book of rhyming political tweets. Two of her essays have been New York Times “Modern Love” columns, and more than a dozen have been published in the Boston Globe’s “Coupling” and “Connections” columns.
JAN CONSTANTINE has been General Counsel for The Authors Guild, a non-profit organization representing a membership of over 8,500 published authors and freelancers, since 2005. Previously, Ms. Constantine was Executive Vice President of News Corporation and, prior to that, Deputy General Counsel for Macmillan, Inc.
BRIDGET MARMION, Panel Moderator, spent over a decade each at Farrar Straus Giroux, Random House and Houghton Mifflin, mostly as SVP, Marketing. In 2012, she launched YOUR EXPERT NATION, Inc., a full-service marketing firm.
The Conference Room Confabs Series
Can I Write That While They're Still Alive? is part of a series of Conference Room Confabs Your Expert Nation hosts every other month. The next one will be on May 4.
Please email richardpkelley@gmail.com with any questions.