New licensing solutions for a changing children’s book industry
1. New licensing solutions for a changing
children’s book industry
Michael Healy
Executive Director, Author & Publisher Relations
Publishers Launch Children’s Conference : New York, January 2012
2. Stating the obvious?
• The industry is being transformed
– New products
– New players
– New partnerships
– New opportunities
• Licensing revenue opportunities are being overlooked
• Easy efficiencies and cost savings are being missed
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3. Permissions Staff Are Struggling
Clearing permissions can
be:
• Labor intensive
• Time consuming
• Slow
• Inefficient
• Expensive
4. Digital media makes things even more complex
Text-only is history
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Today, new types of
permissions are
required to publish in
multiple formats
5. CCC has solutions for today’s digital world
CCC is simplifying the acquisition and licensing of
permissions
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• Permissions Acquisition Service: A service bureau to help your permissions
staff or your authors acquire the permissions you need
• Republication Licensing: A self-service license to help you acquire a broad
bundle of republication rights through copyright.com in a single transaction
6. Permissions Acquisition Service
• Permissions outsourced to an experienced, trusted partner
• Full-service bureau
• CCC specialists acquire the permissions you need
• Quality controls throughout the project lifecycle
• Item-level reporting and cost tracking
• Streamlined payment options
• Staff freed up to better manage your business
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7. Service Offerings
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Needs Analysis
• Manuscript review (new works)
• Permissions gap analysis (backlist titles)
• Permissions acquisition profile
Permissions Acquisition
• New titles
• Backlist titles requiring expanded rights
• Translations
Premium Deliverables
• Robust reports
• Streamlined payments
8. Meeting the needs of your permissions staff
• Our dedicated team enable us to staff projects quickly
and to scale to meet your needs
• Our profiling tools mean fewer incomplete permissions,
fewer review cycles for your staff, and therefore lower
costs
• Consolidated payment options reduce the costs of
managing & issuing micropayments
• Robust reporting means more complete permissions data
in your rights management systems, enabling easy
analysis of reusable permissions
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9. The Republication License
• For publishers who want an efficient, web-based
solution for granting permissions for reuse of their
content
– More cost-effective and efficient for Buyers: can acquire a broad
bundle of rights in a single transaction on copyright.com
– More flexibility and control for Sellers: can control pricing and use
automated tools to manage their business
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10. Why Copyright Clearance Center?
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A trusted, experienced, global Rights Broker
• 30+ years experience
• 450 million+ rights managed
• Thousands of global rightsholders represented
• 35,000 licensed companies
• 1,200 licensed academic institutions
• EContent 100 List for 4 years
• Outsell “10 to Watch” list
11. The Rights Licensing Experts
We Know Rights
• CCC manages millions of rights for content of all types
– Books, journals, magazines and newspapers
– Blogs, web sites, ebooks and new media
We Know Rightsholders
• CCC partners with thousands of rightsholders of all sizes
– Commercial publishers
– Universities and scholarly presses
– Authors and their agents
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We have done a lot of listening through several rounds of market research, including several sessions with our Publisher Advisory Group.
What we have learned is that buyers of rights are struggling to get the rights they need. Sometimes they can clear the rights through copyright.com or RightsLink but sometimes they can’t.
For example, as a rights buyer, if I buy rights for reuse in a book, what does that mean? Today, that means I probably need more than print rights. I need electronic rights and the right to publish in multiple formats.
And, in electronic publishing, I can’t have my rights expire in a year. I need rights for a longer-period of time or across editions. And, if I am publishing materials in the education market, I need rights to reuse content not only in the main textbook but in the teacher’s guide and the student edition as well.
Republication License
Avoid the costly and labor intensive nature of these transactions
Increase revenue and streamline permission requests by making your works available to other publishers and authors through this license
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