David Marlin is the President and Co-Founder of MetaComet® Systems, a prominent provider of royalty automation tools. Since founding the company in 2000, David has spearheaded the development of a suite of best-in-class systems that effectively facilitate royalty processes for nearly 200 publishers. David has also served as the chair for The Book Industry Study Group’s Rights Committee and Digital Sales Committee.
Before establishing MetaComet Systems, David served as a technology consultant for renowned publishers, collaborating with notable companies such as Random House, Penguin, HarperCollins, Holtzbrinck, Macmillan, Scholastic, Time Warner, and many others. David holds both an MBA and a BA from Columbia University in New York.
This guide walks through what contracts and rights management is, how it works in practice, where it tends to break down, and how modern software is changing the discipline. Whether you’re a rights manager at a publishing house, a licensing director at a brand, or an IP counsel at a tech company, the fundamentals are the same.
This guide is written for royalty managers, financial executives, and anyone else concerned with compliance and licensor relations at companies that license in intellectual property. It walks through what royalty auditing is, why it happens, what auditors examine, and how your organization can build the internal readiness to navigate an audit successfully.
Translation rights can be a powerful and cost-effective way to squeeze more revenue from content. What’s more, with few deductions needed, most of the money can go straight to the bottom line.
Rights management software is a tool that helps book publishers, literary agents, and other content rights holders or rights managers keep track of the rights they control, have sold, and have available to sell.
If your business has acquired the rights to use another party’s invention, creation, or intellectual property (IP), then congratulations: you are now a licensee! Licensees pay licensing royalties to a licensor when they monetize the IP they have acquired.
Choosing a rights management system can feel overwhelming at first, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In this FAQ, you’ll learn exactly how to select and implement a solution that truly fits your workflow and empowers you to maximize all your licensing opportunities and revenue.
The new world of multi-format distribution adds enormous complexity to royalty math. That’s where tools like MetaComet’s best-in-class royalty management solutions come in.
When something is sold on a royalty basis, its license holders calculate and put aside a share of the earnings to compensate the original creators. That money is then distributed to recipients in an agreed manner and on a set cycle.
