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, Barnes & Noble
bisac_rights@bisg.org

For a list of Committee members, please click here.

Committee Working Group(s):
Communication Working Group
Beta Testing Working Group

Committee Initiatives:

• Rights Controlled Vocabulary, version 1.0
• Domestic Rights License Payment Pilot
• International Rights & Royalty Reporting Pilot

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.

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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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