This is a codebook used for an exploratory content analysis of Australian book publishing contracts as set out in Joshua Yuvaraj and Rebecca Giblin, 'Are Contracts Enough? An Empirical Study of Author Rights in Australian Publishing Agreements' (2020) 44(1) Melbourne University Law Review (forthcoming).
The codebook contains instructions for the coding of contract clauses. These instructions were given to an external coder for the purposes of testing the reliability of the coding. Changes to the codebook made since the reliability test for clarity and commentary on the results have been written in bold.
The work was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship, the Monash University Graduate Excellence Scholarship, and a Monash University Faculty of Law Top-Up Scholarship, funded by an ARC Future Fellowship provided to Associate Professor Rebecca Giblin (FT170100011).
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