Selling Rights

7. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-17124-4
Verlag: ROUTLEDGE

Buch, Englisch, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1052 g

Selling Rights has firmly established itself as the leading guide to all aspects of rights sales and co-publications throughout the world. The seventh edition is substantially updated to illustrate the changes in rights in relation to new technologies and legal developments in the United Kingdom and the rest of the world.
This fully revised and updated edition includes:

coverage of 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

More detailed coverage of Creative Commons and Open Access

The aftermath of the Digital Economy Act 2010, the Hooper Report and new UK Statutory Instruments affecting copyright

Updated coverage of book fairs

The implications of adding e-book rights to print licences

A separate chapter on collective licensing via Reproduction Rights Organizations

The impact of new electronic hardware (e-readers, tablets, mobile phones) – the distinction between sales and licences

the rights implications of acquisitions, mergers and disposals

updates on serial rights, including online

New appendices listing territories normally sought as exclusive by UK publishers and a glossary of rights specific terms.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Owen, Lynette

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Rights: the historical and legal background 2. The publishing contract: who should control the rights? 3. An expanding range of possibilities 4. The rationale behind rights sales 5. Selling rights: who and how? 6. Tackling the task: essentials 7. Rights selling: a range of methods 8. Book fairs and sales trips: preparation, survival and follow-up 9. English-language territorial rights: coeditions and licences 10. Book club rights 11. Paperback rights 12. Low-price reprint rights 13. Other reprint rights 14. Serial rights and one-shot periodical rights 15. Digest and condensation rights 16. Translation rights: coeditions and licences 17. Anthology and quotation rights 18. Rights for the reading impaired 19. Single-voice readings 20. Audio recording and video recording rights 21. Dramatization and documentary rights: stage, radio, television and film rights 22. Merchandising rights 23. Collective licensing 24. The internet and publishing 25. Electronic publishing and multimedia rights 26. Supply of duplicate production material to licensees Appendix 1: Glossary of common terms used in rights Appendix 2: Territories often sought as exclusive by British publishers Appendix 3: Useful names and addresses

Über Autor(innen)

Lynette Owen OBE is a freelance specialist in copyright, rights and licensing issues and a consultant on the promotion and sale of rights in print and digital environments. She is the General Editor of, and a contributor to, Clark's Publishing Agreements: A Book of Precedents (9th edition, Bloomsbury Professional, 2013). She was previously Copyright Director of Pearson Education and has also worked for Cambridge University Press, Pitman Publishing and Marshall Cavendish. She chairs the Publishers Association Rights Group and is also a member of the International Publishers Association Copyright Committee.