Legal & Confidentiality
We take a systematic and creative approach to ensure our books are written well, written carefully, and express exactly what you have in mind.
Our principles
I - You have control
A life fully lived deserves more than fading memory. Whether you are preserving the history of a parent or grandparent, recording a family’s journey across generations, or setting down an account of events that shaped a nation, a Legacy biography ensures that story travels far into the future – long after those who lived it are gone.
II - Your international outreach
We prepare the majority of our books for non-native English speakers. Whatever the nature of the book, it must convey your own voice, building your genuine brand or reputation globally.
III - You are the primary source
You are the focal point for all research. Our top bilingual researchers will interview you to collect the information needed to meet your objectives, assisting you to build the right narrative.
IV - You have legal rights
You hold complete authorship and intellectual property rights under your name. All legal rights, titles, interests and responsibilities for your book stay with you as the author of the work.
V - Your inspiring stories
Our books bring mature international writing techniques to your story while preserving your cultural context. This conveys your authentic personality to inspire readers in all languages.
VI - Your interviews are confidential
All of our interviews with you are recorded, and you will have access to them on request. They are strictly confidential and your property, and will only be released upon your approval.
Ownership & copyright
When Metro Writers produces a book on your behalf, you retain complete ownership of the finished work. All intellectual property rights, copyright, titles, and interests in the book remain with you as the commissioning client and named author.
Metro Writers does not claim authorship, copyright, or any ownership interest in any book produced on behalf of a client. We are a writing and production service. The ideas, experiences, and information that form the substance of the book are yours. We provide the craft and coordination to set them into published form.
You are free to use, reproduce, publish, or otherwise deal with your book in any way you choose, without reference to Metro Writers, unless otherwise agreed in writing as part of a specific project arrangement.
Confidentiality
All client information, interview recordings, personal histories, and book content shared with Metro Writers in the course of a project is treated as strictly confidential. We do not share, reproduce, or discuss client material with any third party outside the production team working on your project.
Members of the production team involved in your project — writers, editors, translators, designers — are bound by confidentiality obligations as a condition of their engagement. All recordings of interviews conducted by Metro Writers remain your property and are stored securely. They are available to you on request at any time during and after the project.
Nothing will be included in your book without your explicit approval. You review and sign off on the content at each stage of production. You may cancel the project at any time, and all materials produced to that point will be delivered to you.
Metro Writers does not feature client work on its website or in any promotional material without explicit written consent from the client. Where consent is given, the client retains the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
Our process
Our books are produced systematically by a team of interviewers, writers, editors, translators and designers working to international publishing standards. Once we have established the narrative arc and flow of a story, we divide the work into specific stages — each handled by the most appropriate member of the team.
We work with our clients to gather the book’s material via research and interviews and gain their approval and consent at each checkpoint, ensuring the final work is exactly as desired. You will review content chapter by chapter throughout the process and nothing proceeds to the next stage without your sign-off.
While some projects are written for digital publication only in a single language, others are published in print with two or more language editions and made available for global sale. The scope of production is agreed with you at the outset and confirmed in a written project agreement before work begins.
Legal notice
Metro Writers Co., Ltd is a professional writing agency producing books and written materials based on the request of our clients. Our books are written based on material sourced from interviews with our clients and their designated colleagues. Our content belongs to and is the responsibility of the authors who commission us to set their opinions and experiences into written form, meaning our clients have full ownership, rights, titles, interests and responsibilities for their books. They retain and hold full credit for all information published in our books.