Selling rights / Lynette Owen.
"Selling Rights provides a practical and accessible guide to all aspects of selling rights in literary works throughout the world in print and non-print form. The fifth edition of this authoritative handbook has been updated to include changes which have taken place in copyright and related leg...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2006.
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| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
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| Summary: | "Selling Rights provides a practical and accessible guide to all aspects of selling rights in literary works throughout the world in print and non-print form. The fifth edition of this authoritative handbook has been updated to include changes which have taken place in copyright and related legislation in the United Kingdom and overseas, technological developments affecting licensing (in particular the influence of the internet) and changing rights markets worldwide. The book provides details of the historical and legal background to rights selling, how the rights function fits into the overall publishing process, the rationale for licensing, practical guidelines on running a rights operation, coverage of book fairs and sales trips and chapter-by-chapter guidance for different types of rights sale. categories include same-language territory rights, book club rights, serial rights, translation rights, dramatization and documentary rights, merchandising rights, reprographics rights in print and electronicform and electronic and multimedia rights; the chapter on the provision of duplicate production material to licensees takes into account changing methods of production technology."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 367 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages x-xi) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415362806 9780415362801 0415386527 9780415386524 |