With potential rights deals multiplying and rights holders’ roles in flux, BISG believes that all sectors of our industry can benefit from standardized definitions of rights terminology and from a master list of rights transactions that has been designed to facilitate productive, economical communication between buyers and sellers, including automated communication of rights related data between software systems.

This short, 9-question survey is targeted to people who are likely to be interested in rationalizing rights management with a view toward monetizing and maximizing the value of rights they control.

We will share the results of the survey with all participants and incorporate them in the BISG rights-transactions initiative.

For the purposes of this survey, we will use the term “rights” to refer to all uses of content beyond initial book publication in print-on-paper formats in the U.S., including foreign rights, digital rights, audio rights and all other rights commonly called subrights or permissions.

Thanks in advance for your participation.

Scott Lubeck
BISG Executive Director