Presentation from Michael Healy, Copyright Clearance Center, at the BISG June 11, 2014 Rights Summit, looking at issues affecting the publishing industry in the management and transmission of rights and rights data.

1. Managing rights data:
Examining friction & exploring solutions
Michael Healy
Executive Director, International Relations
BISG Rights Summit
New York, June 11th 2014

2. Defining our terms
• Rights data = data relating to:
– Primary contracts
– Mandates/delegations of rights
– Rights
– Permissions
– Licenses
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3. The basics …
• Are there problems?
• Are they sufficiently serious to
justify spending time looking
for solutions?
• Can they be fixed?
• Are they problems susceptible
to systematic, industry-wide
solutions?
• Are they “BISG problems”?
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4. Opinions
• Publishing is a rights business
• Every online transaction is a rights
transaction
• Signs of good practice are evident
• New industry entrants with different
expectations are driving change

5. Challenges
• Failing to see the whole
• Rights silos
• Automation as a threat
• Justifying investments
• Necessary complexity
• Strategic management buy-in

6. Reasons to be cheerful?
• Some foundations in place?
• Linked Content Coalition
• Rights Data Integration project
• UK Copyright Hub

7. Contact: Michael Healy
mhealy@copyright.com
www.copyright.com