Rights Committee
BISG's Rights Committee develops, maintains and advocates industry-wide best practices designed to support the standardized electronic transmission of a defined set of rights information between trading partners, now and in the future.
Committee Co-Chairs:
Judith Appelbaum, Sensible Solutions
David Marlin, MetaComet Systems
Emily Williams, Publishers Lunch
bisac_rights@bisg.org
For a list of Committee members, please click here.
Committee Working Group(s):
Communication Working Group
Beta Testing Working Group
January 2012 -- BISG and EDItEUR have been developing standardized computer-to-computer message formats for royalty reporting between licensees and licensors or their agents. Click here to download a model of the possible data content and structure for these messages.Committee Initiatives:
- Controlled Rights Vocabulary (approved by BISG Board on September 19, 2011 -- to be posted)
- Domestic Rights & Royalty Reporting Pilot
- International Rights & Royalty Reporting Pilot
Communication Working Group
The Communication Working Group is charged with identifying a comprehensive set of rights transactions and a supporting controlled vocabulary.
Beta Testing Working Group
The Beta Testing Working Group is charged with developing rights-related use cases, and creating selected test messages and technical specifications for a pilot program(s).
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