Manage overseas licensing for manga content by coordinating new-business sales, publisher proposals, permission documents, contract checks, and supervision of translated publications and promotional items.
About this role
This role handles contract work required to publish manga, novels, books, and related content. Responsibilities include requesting contract preparation from the Legal and Intellectual Property Department, checking contract contents, asking editorial teams to review agreements, and negotiating contracts with internal departments and external parties, mainly corporations.
The work also covers agreements outside publishing contracts, such as contracts concerning merchandise and video distribution. The role may additionally involve intellectual-property work related to publishing content, including anti-piracy measures.
Required experience includes creating or checking contracts, regardless of industry, or experience in work related to law. Candidates must be able to perform basic operations using Outlook email and Office applications. The posting also asks for an interest in working in the publishing industry and the motivation to continue working in publishing contracts over the medium to long term. People without prior experience may learn the work gradually, and applicants with a willingness to study are welcomed.
Preferred qualifications include experience working in the publishing industry, experience drafting contracts such as reviewing, adding, or revising contractual provisions, and qualifications related to intellectual property rights.
The role involves contract coordination with authors and other rights holders, as well as communication with many internal and external stakeholders. The work location is the Shibuya office in Shibuya, Tokyo. The employment type is contract.
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