Published in: Publishing Perspectives

". . . .The complexity of this challenge, and its global nature, are what animate the Book Industry Study Group's Rights Committee, an organization of which I am co-chair. We are working to create a standardized framework that can be used to describe any rights transaction, from a traditional language and territory book deal to serialized content used in educational programs for schools or a cookbook app for the iPhone enhanced with how-to videos and shopping lists. This framework will have a plain language form that will be publicly available for use as a reference both by companies in the traditional book sphere looking for guidance, and the digital payers like tech companies that are entering book publishing and need to understand the rights landscape. We are also developing a code-based version of the framework under the ONIX standard that can be used for system-to system transactions. . . ."

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