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Overview
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781032495927 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 07/08/2024 |
Edition description: | 9th ed. |
Pages: | 544 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements and further reading vii
Preface ix
1 Rights: the historical and legal background 1
2 The publishing contract: who should control the rights? 53
3 An expanding range of possibilities 68
4 The rationale behind rights sales 76
5 Selling rights: who and how? 83
6 Tackling the task: essentials 89
7 Rights selling: a range of methods 109
8 Book fairs and sales trips: preparation, survival and follow-up 119
9 English-language territorial rights: co-editions and licences 144
10 Book club rights 176
11 Paperback rights 182
12 Low-price reprint rights 191
13 Other reprint rights 203
14 Serial rights and one-shot periodical rights 212
15 Digest and condensation rights 226
16 Translation rights: co-editions and licences 229
17 Anthology and quotation rights 281
18 Rights for the reading-impaired 296
19 Non-dramatized reading rights 305
20 Audio-recording and video-recording rights 309
21 Dramatization and documentary rights: stage, radio, television and film rights 320
22 Merchandising rights 352
23 Collective licensing 364
24 The internet and publishing 381
25 Electronic publishing and digital licensing 423
26 Supply of duplicate production material to licensees 458
Appendix 1 Glossary of common terms used in rights 466
Appendix 2 Member states of the international copyright conventions 471
Appendix 3 Countries currently outside membership of any international copyright convention 478
Appendix 4 Territories often sought as exclusive by British publishers 479
Appendix 5 Useful names and addresses 484
Index 489