Digital Licensing Agreements
Dates:
4 November 2010; 28 March & 27 October 2011 (a one-day course)
Price:
£365+VAT (a number of discounts are available)
Note: Our rates will be changing in 2011. If you book before 31/12/2010 you will be charged the 2010 rate.
Venue:
The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)
Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability
"Greater understanding of the digital rights environment and its differences from print publishing. I found the course very enjoyable."
Ucles Esol delegate
You may already have a good working knowledge of publishing copyright and contracts, but digital licensing often stumps even the most experienced publisher. Whether you are involved in acquiring or licensing content, this course will help you ensure that your publishing agreements cover all the necessary digital options, now and in the future.
The course will enable you to make an informed judgement on how appropriate your existing agreements are, and what to look out for when drafting or signing new ones.
Note: You will need a solid understanding of publishing copyright, rights and moral rights before attending this course. Copyright and Legal Issues for Publishers can provide this.
Programme
- What are digital rights?
- Suitable content and acquiring content
- The courtship dance (negotiation)
- Defining the licence
- Key digital markets
- E-books for consumers and libraries, content aggregation and products with integrated content
- Distribution versus licensing models
- Formats, delivery and metadata
- Licensing models and key terms
- New market developments
- Pricing possibilities based on ever evolving business models
- Pitfalls and required clauses.
Who will benefit from this course?
Editorial, rights, contracts and permissions staff who deal with acquiring and licensing digital and electronic rights.
Your tutors
Jamie McOuat runs her own sales and rights consultancy, Rights Focus Ltd, specialising in contract negotiation and training. She worked for John Wiley & Sons for the previous decade, first in their US Domestic Rights division in Manhattan and then for eight years as General Manager, Rights and Licensing in the UK, covering globally published content for translation, serial, audio, electronic, book club, film, merchandising and reprint rights.
Clare Painter has been involved with rights, contracts and copyright since the start of her career. She has been negotiating digital licensing agreements since the mid 1990s when she was Rights Director at Helicon Publishing, the pioneer in multi-platform electronic and multimedia reference publishing. She now assists publishers new to digital publishing, guiding them through widely varying business models and negotiating licensing contracts. Claire runs her own consultancy, Rights Direction Ltd, is an associate of licensing agency Attwooll Associates, and acts as copyright and permissions consultant for journal authors at Oxford University Press.
We also offer Publishing Contracts and Digital Publishing Law.
Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.
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Dates: 4 November 2010; 28 March & 27 October 2011
Price: £365+VAT (a number of discounts are available).
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