Author: Bill Rosenblatt
All publishers need to manage rights. But what value does effective rights management have to a publisher? Apart from the obvious value of legal risk avoidance, this question has gone largely unanswered for a very long time. Publishers say they want to improve their rights management capabilities, but they often don’t invest in new systems. The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) found this out back in 2017: it did a survey that revealed that while the majority of respondents saw the value in improved rights management, only 40% had plans to make investments in the coming 3-5 years.
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