Rights Management
An Overview of the Royalty Management Life Cycle & Royalty Records
Royalty records management might be the most confusing part of the publishing business. Mistakes here can cost you money and damage your author relationships. To clarify this intimidating process,...
LBF 2016: Royalty Management, AuthorPortal.com, and The MetaVerse™ Platform
I hope to see you at this year's London Book Fair (Booth 6E70 Aisle F, 12-14 April 2016) should you attend. If you have any interest in learning about how we can help or more about our tools, or if...
MetaComet Systems Joins Independent Publishers Guild, Expanding Its UK Royalty Services Presence
Over the last couple of years, we have begun helping several publishers in the United Kingdom automate their royalty management processes. To better serve our current and future customers and to...
Improve Rights Management with Royalty Tracker
Many of our customers are seeing growing income through their subsidiary rights deals. Yet this aspect of your business can be complex to track. For example, while many publishers are good at...
David Marlin Presents Rights Management Standards and Best Practices to AAP PSP Books Committee
David Marlin recently spoke to the Association of American Publishers PSP Books Committee on rights management standards and best practices. Over his career working with dozens of publishers of all...
Are You Leaving Money on the Table? Improve Collections and Royalty Accounting on Your Licensed Content
Chances are you wouldn’t knowingly undermine your company’s bottom line by adhering to procedures that are financially risky. Yet many licensors of intellectual and physical property commit this...
Rights Management and Royalty Management Services: 3 Best Practices
Best practices are important to the success of just about every industry out there – from food service to real estate. However, for those dealing with royalties best practices are critical. The...
3 Strategies for Content Monetization: Part 3 of 3
In my previous post, I wrote about a technology platform that allows reference book publishers to transact in backlist content. Today, I present yet another strategy publishers can use to monetize...
RightsTracker Module Offers Greater Productivity in Selling and Managing Subrights
Do you manage rights and want to be more productive? Do you feel like you're leaving money on the table by missing opportunities and the challenges of tracking royalties? MetaComet's® Subrights...
3 Strategies for Content Monetization: Part 2 of 3
In my last post about content monetization for book publishers, I introduced the strategy of "chunking" in which a publisher takes its licensed content and breaks it up into resellable, reusable...