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,...
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...
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...
3 Strategies for Content Monetization: Part 1 of 3
In digital rights circles, we hear more and more about publishers who are monetizing their content by reusing and repackaging it creatively. To us, this signifies a shift: publishers are getting...
Doctor Who, Interrupted
Science fiction's largest award event, the Hugos, was streamed live this year. However, those watching on Ustream received a rude interruption: a message reading, "Worldcon banned due to copyright...
Rights Standards: The Road to Profits
Publishers today face a seldom-discussed digital dilemma that directly impacts their profitability: the lack of standards for communicating rights information about content. What rights are...
Licensing 101
For those who are new to rights licensing, we like this video from InLiquid called Licensing 101. The site also has some great basic information about capturing profit from licensing and rights...