Lynette Owen (General Editor and Contributor) is a freelance copyright and rights consultant. She started her publishing career in rights at Cambridge University Press and also worked at Pitman Publishing and Marshall Cavendish before joining Longman Group Ltd (now Pearson Education) until May 2013 as Copyright Director. She regularly lectures on copyright and rights courses both in the UK and abroad. She is also the author of Selling Rights now in its 7th edition and published by Routledge.She received the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 and an OBE for services to publishing and international trade in the Queen's New Year Honours in 2009.Contributors include: Duncan Calow, Hugh Jones, Chris Bennett, Aleksandar Kaludjerovic, Kevin Stewart, Rachel Richards, Diane Spivey, Suzanne Barlow, Anji Clarke, Michael Ridley, Alan Williams, Nick Fitzpatrick, Anna Vernon, Carlo Scollo Lavizzari, Andrea Shallcross, Claire Hodder, Sarah Faulder, Alicia Wise, Catriona Stevenson and Huw Alexander.

[O]ffers extensive solid advice on the building blocks of that portfolio of rights, and as such, is an excellent resource for any publisher, agent, or attorney operating in the publishing sector ... I highly recommend this title, and consider it an essential addition to a Rights Licensing Bookshelf for all rights licensing practitioners.

• 1 General Book: Author–Publisher Agreement 2 Educational, Academic, Scientific and Professional Book A: Traditional Author–Publisher Agreement B: Open Access Author–Publisher Agreement 3 Agreement for General Editor of a Book 4 Agreement for Contributor to a Book 5 Book Series: Editor–Publisher Agreement 6 Academic Journal: Editor’s Agreement 7 Society-Owned Journal: Publishing Agreement 8 Journal Contributor Agreements 9 Agreements for Serial Rights 10 Translator’s Agreement 11 Agreement for Sale of Translation Rights Appendix: The People’s Republic of China, Central and Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Union Republics 12 Same-Language Low-Priced Reprint Agreement 13 Illustration and Artwork Agreement 14 Packaging Rights Agreement 15 International Co-edition Agreement 16 Film, Television and Allied Rights: Option Agreement and Assignment 17 Merchandising Rights Agreement . Introduction to Electronic Precedents 18 Licence to Digital Media Producer to Use Existing Print Material in Carrier Form 19 Licence to Institution to Make Existing Print Material Available by Local Networks to End Users within its Own Site 20 Licence to Institution to Use Material Supplied in Electronic Form 21 Online Access to Database Agreement 22 EBook Distribution Agreement 23 App Development Agreement 24 Text and Data Mining (TDM): Sample Clauses for Subscription Agreement for Copyright-protected Works and Materials Accessible or Delivered in Mineable Formats 25 Influencer Agreement Appendix A The US Market Appendix B Paperback and Hardback Reprint Rights Appendix C Audio Publishing Rights Appendix D Licensing Permission Rights Appendix E Collective Licensing Appendix F People with Disabilities Appendix F Academic Library Aggregators Appendix H Creative Commons Licences Appendix I Reversionary Provisions of the Copyright Act 1911 Appendix J Moral Rights Appendix K Publishers Association Code of Practice on Author Contracts Appendix L Territories of the World Appendix M Member States of the International Copyright Conventions Appendix N Useful Names and Addresses