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le droit de suite

by Dan on June 13, 2011

Le droit de suite is a short typographic film by Paris-based designer Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet for the French collective rights management society ADAGP that explains an artist’s resale right:

The French version can be found here.

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Pass the Gestalt, Please

by Dan on July 22, 2010

An interesting post by the whip-smart Evan Schnittman, Managing Director of Group Sales and Marketing at Bloomsbury, about e-book rights and royalties at his blog Black Plastic Glasses:

[A] successful and coherent publishing is not the sum of individual publishing rights, but rather the gestalt work presented coherently to a global audience. Viewing the ebook out of the context of the rest of the work gets us nowhere. We must understand how ebooks fit into the publishing ecosphere and only then can we determine what the right royalty should be… The whole work has FAR greater value than the sum of the individual rights. Allowing each individual part, or right, to be disaggregated and auctioned to the highest bidder serves only those who make profit from short-term gain.

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More than…

January 7, 2010

In a recent op-ed for The NY Times, ‘There’s More to Publishing Than Meets the Screen’, Jonathan Galassi, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, asked: Are e-books a new frontier in publishing, a fresh version of the author’s work? Or are they simply the latest editions of the books produced by publishers like Random House? [...]

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A Question

December 18, 2009

I’ve been staying clear of the publishing shit-storm du jour — Random House’s claim to backlist e-book rights and Stephen Covey’s decision to sell exclusive digital rights to two of his bestselling books to Amazon rather than his traditional publisher Simon & Schuster — because I simply don’t know enough about rights. But, Peter Ginna, [...]

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