Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced a partnership with PubMatch, the book publishing portal and rights database jointly owned by Publishers Weekly and Combined Book Exhibit. Under the deal, CCC and PubMatch will create an automated, Web-based exchange for sub-rights deals focused on whole book translation and distribution rights, using CCC's RightsLink transaction engine.
The world's leading publishers use RightsLink to help increase revenue, streamline the online licensing process and enhance the licensing experience for their customers.
As a result of this new agreement, rightsholders will now have a way of facilitating transactions that might have otherwise been lost. Utilising CCC's RightsLink, parties will have a new resource to arrange and vet rights sales. According to George Slowik, Jr., president of Publishers Weekly, this improved efficiency will make more works available in more languages and more markets internationally than ever before.
