Selling Rights (8^th Ed.)

Selling Rights has firmly established itself as the leading guide to all aspects of rights sales and co-publications throughout the world. The eighth edition is substantially updated to illustrate the changes in rights in relation to new technologies and legal developments in the UK 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 Open Access;

? the aftermath of recent reviews and revisions to copyright in the UK and elsewhere;

? updated coverage of book fairs;

? a major update of the chapter on audio rights;

? an updated chapter on collective licensing via reproduction rights organizations;

? the impact of new electronic hardware (e-readers, tablets, smartphones);

? the distinction between sales and licences;

? the rights implications of acquisitions, mergers and disposals;

? updates on serial rights;

? new appendices listing countries belonging to the international copyright conventions and absentee countries.

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.

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: co-editions 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: co-editions and licences
17. Anthology and quotation rights
18. Rights for the reading-impaired
19. Non-dramatized reading rights
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 digital licensing
26. Supply of duplicate production material to licensees

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 (10th edition, 2017). She was previously Copyright Director of Pearson Education and has also worked for Cambridge University Press, Pitman Publishing and Marshall Cavendish. She has chaired the Publishers Association Rights Group and is also a member of the International Publishers Association Copyright Committee.