Len Vlahos, Executive Director at the Book Industry Study Group, presented at the BISG Rights Summit on June 11, 2014.

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BISG Rights Summit 2014

2. Introduction
Rights Summit | June 11, 2014
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BISG’s mission is to facilitate
innovation and shared solutions for
the benefit of all companies and
practitioners that create, produce, and
distribute published content, and the
organizations that support them..
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4. BISG’s mission is to facilitate
innovation and shared solutions for
the benefit of all companies and
practitioners that create, produce, and
distribute published content, and the
organizations that support them..
© 2014, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.

5. Horizontally Oriented
AAP AAUP ABA ALA
Hachette Cambridge
UP
Book People Public
librarians
HaperCollins Oxford UP The King’s
English
Academic
librarians
Penguin-
Random
House
Univ of
Chicago
Press
McLean &
Eakin
School
librarians
S&S Univ of
Nebraska
Press
Blue Willow
Bookshop
Institutional
librarians
Most trade groups
represent verticals.
BISG
BISG represents the
entire horizontal
industry
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7. Standards and
Best Practices
Research
Education
and Events
Focus on EPUB,
ID of E-Books,
Metadata…
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8. Standards and
Best Practices
Research
Education
and Events
Focus on EPUB,
ID of E-Books,
Metadata…
© 2014, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.

9. Active Committees
o Content Structure Committee
o EDI Committee
o Identification Committee
o Manufacturing & Distribution Committee
• Machine Readable Coding
• XBITS
o Metadata Committee
o Rights Committee
o Subject Codes Committee
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10. Active Committees
o Content Structure Committee
o EDI Committee
o Identification Committee
o Manufacturing & Distribution Committee
• Machine Readable Coding
• XBITS
o Metadata Committee
o Rights Committee
o Subject Codes Committee
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11. Rights Committee
o Rights controlled vocabulary
o Domestic and international transactional spec
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12. Rights 2014
£0
£50
£100
£150
£200
U.K. Rights and Coeditions
(in millions)
2010
2012
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13. Types of rights transactions (in millions)
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
2010 2012
Eng Lang Reprint
Translation
Permission
Electronic
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14. Standardization
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17. Thanks to our sponsor!
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18. Introductions
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19. Our facilitator
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