Lynette Owen OBE is a freelance specialist in copyright, rights and licensing issues and a consultant on the promotion and sale of rights in print and digital environments. She is the general editor of, and a contributor to, Clark's Publishing Agreements: A Book of Precedents (11th edition, 2022). She was previously Copyright Director of Pearson Education and has also worked for Cambridge University Press, Pitman Publishing and Marshall Cavendish. She has chaired the Publishers Association Rights Group and is also a member of a number of industry committees.

Acknowledgements and further reading
Preface

Chapter 1: Rights: The historical and legal background
Chapter 2: The publishing contract: who should control the rights?
Chapter 3: An expanding range of possibilities
Chapter 4: The rationale behind rights sales
Chapter 5: Selling rights: who and how?
Chapter 6: Tackling the task: essentials
Chapter 7: Rights selling: a range of methods
Chapter 8: Book fairs and sales trips: preparation, survival and follow-up
Chapter 9: English-language territorial rights: co-editions and licences
Chapter 10: Book club rights
Chapter 11: Paperback rights
Chapter 12: Low-price reprint rights
Chapter 13: Other reprint rights
Chapter 14: Serial rights and one-shot periodical rights
Chapter 15: Digest and condensation rights
Chapter 16: Translation rights: co-editions and licences
Chapter 17: Anthology and quotation rights
Chapter 18: Rights for the reading-impaired
Chapter 19 Non-dramatized reading rights
Chapter 20: Audio-recording and video-recording rights
Chapter 21: Dramatization and documentary rights: stage, radio, television and film rights
Chapter 22: Merchandising rights
Chapter 23: Collective licensing
Chapter 24: The internet and publishing
Chapter 25: Electronic publishing and digital licensing
Chapter 26: Supply of duplicate production material to licensees

Appendix 1: Glossary of common terms used in rights
Appendix 2: Member states of the international copyright conventions
Appendix 3: Countries currently outside membership of any international copyright convention
Appendix 4: Territories often sought as exclusive by British publishers
Appendix 5: Useful names and addresses