Policies

Unsolicited Submissions

LernerMedia Global is currently not accepting unsolicited submissions. Please do not submit suggestions, pitches, treatments, financials, books, scripts, screenplays, storyboards, photos, video, or any creative property to which you claim intellectual property rights unless expressly requested by us.

Unsolicited materials will not be evaluated without prior mutual consent and agreement. Unsolicited submissions waive your right to claim subsequent intellectual property rights infringement against recipients and their designated agents and affiliates.

Content standards and policies

LernerMedia Global produces scholarly and carefully reasoned books,  essays, media, and film containing original work.

Our experts and authors are carefully selected scholars and artists of high integrity who value their professional reputations. To protect our colleagues, all contributions are subject to screening by text and video analysis programs that quickly identify similarities to material already in publication and/or available online.

Plagiarism will not be tolerated and is treated as both academic fraud and,  when accompanied by a demand for payment, a criminal fraud.  With the exception of properly attributed quotes, all submissions must be original compositions and all sources properly credited.

Business policies

In accepting and submitting any assignment, contributors acknowledge and reiterate their initial contractual agreement with us, agreeing to continue to abide by the following policies:

In accepting any assignment from any corporate entity of Lerner & Lerner, LLC., LernerMedia, or LernerMedia Global, hereafter referred to as “LMG” the person, persons, or entity accepting the assignment acknowledges that they are independent contractors, not employees of LMG unless they hold a separate and expressed employment agreement with LMG.

LMG entitites respect and support the rights of various artists collectives in the countries in which it operates. Accordingly, when applicable, LMG entities will abide by and actively support established union, guild, and other collective agreements, policies, and conventions.

Invoices: Independent contractors should submit work as it is completed and submit an invoice for all work delivered.

Please submit separate invoices for individual projects as printable email attachments. LernerMedia entities  will accept, via email, any style of invoice that specifies the following: Name, SSN or other Tax ID, Mailing Address, a brief outline of the work performed, a specification of sums due.  Failure to submit a proper invoice may delay payment

Payment : Unless we notify you of a reason for a delay (work awaiting revision by you, etc.) payments will normally be posted no later than 30 days after the assigned deadline date or date the invoice your invoice is received, whichever date is later.  In the vast majority of cases, however, payments are usually posted within two weeks of assigned deadlines.

Contributors can significantly speed work evaluation time and thus accelerate payments by submitting work as it is completed and then invoicing at deadline rather than submitting work en masse at deadline.

Payments are normally made in US Dollars via corporate check sent standard post. Contributors may request electronic payments in US Dollars ($), Pounds (£), Euros (€), Canadian Dollars, Australian Dollars ,or Hong Kong Dollars via online electronic transfer services. If LMG agrees to the transfer, the contributor shall be responsible for all currency exchange, transfer, and electronic payment fees. LMG  entities do not endorse any electronic payment service, nor can we indemnify colleagues for loss due to postal or electronic transfer failure beyond the extent to which we can recover original funds sent.  Lerner & Lerner  cannot institute traces or other inquiries except with Royal Mail,  La Poste, and USPS.  Use of  electronic payment services is entirely at the discretion of LMG.