Export Barriers: The importance of a good rights contract
Webinar
Develop practical skills in drafting contracts for rights negotiations. Learn from an expert – a lawyer with 20 years of publishing experience – to explore the standard terms and conditions, bring to life the contract documents, and leverage resilient publishing relationships.
Topics addressed include
- what should be included in a contract
- discussion on royalties (percentage and how it differs by country)
- world vs. territorial rights
- requests for and calculations of an advance
- timelines for signature
- kinds of subsidiary rights and their implications
- how to get paid
- withholding tax
- digital files: how much to charge for them, or pay for them? When to send them?
Geared to Canadian publishers already or newly exporting, yet have questions concerning what should be discussed and negotiated before signing any rights contract.
In French. Presentation available in English.
Speaker
Barbara Creary is a lawyer with over 20 years experience in publishing and especially in rights sales, negotiating translation contracts, distribution rights, subsidiary rights, etc. She is a publishing consultant in international rights sales for a number of publishers as well as Director of International Development for Dominique et compagnie. Before that, she was with Les éditions de la courte échelle for 14 years.
Watch a video recording of this webinar (00:58:59)