Full Description
Now in its ninth edition, Selling Rights has firmly established itself as the leading guide to all aspects of rights sales and co-publications throughout the world.
Covering the full range of potential rights, from English-language territorial rights through to serial rights, permissions, rights for the reading-impaired, translation rights, dramatization and documentary rights, electronic and multimedia rights, this book constitutes a comprehensive introduction and companion to the topic. Besides individual types of rights, topics covered also include book fairs, Open Access, the ongoing impact of new electronic hardware, and the rights implications of acquisitions, mergers, and disposals.
This fully updated edition includes:
• New IP legislation and proposed legislation in the UK and the USA, including changes regarding TDM and the post-Brexit implications of EU directives and exhaustion of rights.
• The implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for author contracts and licensing contracts.
• The impact of the pandemic and its aftermath on the promotion and sale of rights.
• Coverage of censorship in countries around the world, especially in relation to LGBTQI+ content, as well as political situations which have impacted on rights trading.
• The impact of streaming services on opportunities for licensing television and film rights.
• Major revisions to the chapters on audio and video recording rights, the internet and publishing, and electronic publishing and digital licensing.
Selling Rights is an essential reference tool and an accessible and illuminating guide to current and future issues for rights professionals and students of publishing.
Contents
Acknowledgements and further reading
Preface
Chapter 1: Rights: The historical and legal background
Chapter 2: The publishing contract: who should control the rights?
Chapter 3: An expanding range of possibilities
Chapter 4: The rationale behind rights sales
Chapter 5: Selling rights: who and how?
Chapter 6: Tackling the task: essentials
Chapter 7: Rights selling: a range of methods
Chapter 8: Book fairs and sales trips: preparation, survival and follow-up
Chapter 9: English-language territorial rights: co-editions and licences
Chapter 10: Book club rights
Chapter 11: Paperback rights
Chapter 12: Low-price reprint rights
Chapter 13: Other reprint rights
Chapter 14: Serial rights and one-shot periodical rights
Chapter 15: Digest and condensation rights
Chapter 16: Translation rights: co-editions and licences
Chapter 17: Anthology and quotation rights
Chapter 18: Rights for the reading-impaired
Chapter 19 Non-dramatized reading rights
Chapter 20: Audio-recording and video-recording rights
Chapter 21: Dramatization and documentary rights: stage, radio, television and film rights
Chapter 22: Merchandising rights
Chapter 23: Collective licensing
Chapter 24: The internet and publishing
Chapter 25: Electronic publishing and digital licensing
Chapter 26: Supply of duplicate production material to licensees
Appendix 1: Glossary of common terms used in rights
Appendix 2: Member states of the international copyright conventions
Appendix 3: Countries currently outside membership of any international copyright convention
Appendix 4: Territories often sought as exclusive by British publishers
Appendix 5: Useful names and addresses
