Doing Rights Right 2026: Building Your Rights Toolbox
Brought to you by BISG's Rights Committee, with support from Frankfurter Buchmesse, Doing Rights Right 2026 continues the tradition of bringing together rights professionals from across the publishing world.
Doing Rights Right 2026: Building Your Rights Toolbox will explore how rights professionals at publishers, agencies, industry partners, and beyond can connect the dots across the modern rights ecosystem—from metadata to monetization—to build effective, future-ready rights strategies to maximize value and income.
Through real world examples, standards updates, and hands-on insights, the program will help attendees understand their rights “toolbox,” make smarter investments, and define what a successful rights strategy looks like.
Join industry leaders for a full day of insight, innovation, and connection featuring keynotes, panels, and workshops exploring the future of rights, technology, and publishing.
Attendees will enjoy networking over coffee and lunch, hear updates from the BISG Rights Committee, engage with forward-thinking discussions on the evolving rights ecosystem, and close the day with a reception.
With expert speakers and thought-provoking sessions throughout, this event offers a dynamic look at what’s ahead for the industry.
Why Attend:
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Stay ahead of evolving rights trends
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Gain fresh updates from rights thought leaders
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Network and connect with industry peers from agencies, publishers, vendors, and more
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Enjoy community time over a light lunch and afternoon reception
Networking Highlights
A light lunch will be provided, offering a chance to connect with fellow attendees, speakers, and sponsors.
The day will conclude with a casual reception—an opportunity to continue conversations and share insights from the day's programming.
To view 2025's Doing Rights Right program, visit BISG's Knowledge Center.
Agenda
| January 23 | |
| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Registration, Coffee, Networking |
| 9:30 AM - 9:35 AM |
Welcome
with KRIS KLIEMANN, Chair, BISG Rights Committee, and BRIAN O'LEARY, Executive Director, BISG |
| 9:35 AM - 9:45 AM |
Opening Remarks
with JUERGEN BOOS, President & CEO, Frankfurt Buchmesse |
| 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM |
Session 1: Measuring Twice
Speed doesn’t build value—precision does. This session applies the “measure twice, cut once” mindset to modern rights management, showing how better planning, clearer workflows, and connected data drive revenue. By revealing where rushed decisions drain value across discovery, deals, compliance, and payments, attendees will learn how to reduce risk, strengthen negotiations, and build future-ready rights strategies. |
| 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM |
Session 2: New Tools for the Rights Toolbox
GEORGE LOGAN & DENNIS BUTLER (Manuscript AI); MATT BELFORD & MAX HINCHCLIFFE (Royalty Reader); MARY ANN NAPLES & SARAH PERILLO (Rights Matcher) |
| 11:20 AM - 11:50 AM |
Session 3: BISG Rights Committee Update
Rights Committee Chair KRIS KLIEMANN presents updates on Find A Rightsholder, the Translation Rights Royalty Statement Standard, and new initiatives, includuing a Rights Vendors Compendium and Book Publishing Next. |
| 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM |
Session 4: Licensing for AI: What Should (What Can) Book Publishers Do?
As AI reshapes how content is discovered, trained on, and monetized, rights professionals face urgent questions. We'll examine the AI licensing landscape for book publishers, what AI companies want, the role of intermediaries, and the limits of licensing. THAD MCILROY (The Future of Publishing) will explore training models, revenue potential, and whether the industry can align on a sustainable path forward. |
| 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM |
Session 5: Amlet: AI Protection and Licensing for Publishers
GIACOMO D'ANGELO (Founder & CEO, Amlet; CEO, StreetLib) will share details about Amlet. Amlet empowers publishers and content creators to securely register, manage, and license their digital works in the AI economy, providing the missing trust layer between content owners and AI companies. |
| 2:15 PM - 2:35 PM |
Session 6: AI Licensing Discussion
Following the two AI and Content Licensing sessions, attendees will have an opportunity for further discussion. |
| 2:35 PM - 3:20 PM |
Session 7: The Human Toolbox: Thriving as a Rights Professional and How to Glow in the Dark
Books live or die by the details. Choices in metadata, boilerplate, category, format, and design shape success. But that’s only half the story. Beyond this Newtonian math lies emotional relativity: risk and taste, convention versus innovation, power dynamics, and inherited ideas of value. KRIS KLIEMANN and ANNA SPROUL-LATIMER explore how these forces guide decisions—and why learning to work with them is a vital publishing skill. |
| 3:20 PM - 3:30 PM | Reception Sponsor Remarks |
| 3:30 PM - 3:40 PM | Closing Remarks & Raffle |
| 3:40 PM - 4:20 PM | Networking Reception |
Registration Options
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Doing Rights Right 2026 Sponsorship
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$1,000.00 |
Tickets
BISG Member: Sold out!
Nonmember: Sold out!
Virtual-Only Pass: $49
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
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