Mark Bide

Senior Consultant

Rightscom

Mark Bide joined Rightscom in March 2001, following nearly 10 years running his own consultancy. He has 35 years experience in the publishing industry, having been a Director of the European subsidiaries of both CBS Publishing and John Wiley & Sons. Subsequently, he developed one of the most highly respected independent publishing consultancies in the UK, with particular expertise in the impact of network technology on the information value chain.

Since the early 1990s, Mr. Bide has been deeply involved in metadata and identification initiatives, including the <indecs> project. At Rightscom, he has undertaken projects on behalf of clients like the European Commission, the British Library, the UK Publishers Association, EDItEUR, UKOLN, the JISC, the Publishers Licensing Society, the Copyright Licensing Agency, IFRRO, the International DOI Foundation, and World Association of Newspapers.

Mr. Bide remains involved in standardization strategies, and was closely involved in the development of the MI3P standards project for the music industry, particularly the Global Release Identifier (GRid) and the Musical Works License Identifier (MWLI). He has long been an advocate of the requirement for machine-interpretable policy expression, and has been involved in the formulation of ONIX for Licensing Terms from its inception. He is the Project Coordinator for the ACAP Project.