Copyright Clearance Center's Beyond the Book program explores issues facing the information content industry and helps creative professionals realize the full potential of their works, while encouraging respect for intellectual property and the principles of copyright.
BTB #180: Jeff Sedlik on Rights, Copyright & Photography
With core funding now in place, the PLUS Registry – a global online resource which connects images, rights holders and rights information – is set to launch this fall. By special arrangement with the American Society of Media Photographers, Beyond the Book presents PLUS president and CEO Jeff Sedlik’s remarks at ASMP’s “Registration Counts” conference earlier this spring. As ASMP President Richard Kelly has noted, “ASMP plans to lead in moving forward on copyright issues and identifying sustainable business solutions for our changing world.”
With eighteen years of experience as a leading advertising, editorial, and fine art photographer, Sedlik is the past National President of the Advertising Photographers of America and is a professor and long-time faculty member of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
A video from the event is also available:
BTB #179: Understanding ‘Net Neutrality’
Wondering whether you should care about “net neutrality” or are you even just a little bit puzzled about exactly what is “net neutrality”?
Chris Kenneally went to Marc Strohlein, Chief Agility Officer for publishing analyst firm Outsell, for a straight take on what may be the sleeper issue of the year for publishing and media companies.
BTB #178: Book Rights Sales & Spanish Markets
At BookExpo America, Spanish publisher Blanca Rosa Roca (pictured) and American literary agent Diana Finch explored with Chris Kenneally topics such as territorial issues for publishers working between Spain and Latin America; the role of agents in finding negotiating opportunities; and the growing role of Spanish-language publishing within the US. The 2010 BEA Global Market Forum program was organized in partnership with the Ministry of Culture of Spain, the Federation of Spanish Publishers (Federacion De Gremios De Editores De Espana) and the Spanish Trade Commission.
A video from the event is also available from BookExpo America Podcasts:
BTB #177: Spanish Fiction and the American Allure
For BookExpo America 2010, Spanish publishers and authors bathed in the spotlight of the Global Market Forum. That special focus brought Beyond the Book’s Chris Kenneally together with a pair of Spanish novelists whose work and lives have been shaped by their time in the United States. Eduardo Lago is an award-winning novelist, translator, and literary critic, currently living in Manhattan; and Barcelona-born Eduardo Mendoza lived in New York from 1973 to 1982, working as a United Nations interpreter.
A video from the event is also available from BookExpo America Podcasts:
Best of BTB: Rethinking Author Contracts for the Digital World
E-books and other fledgling publishing forms present opportunities and challenges for authors, even while they raise caution flags when it comes to rights negotiations with publishers. In March, at the Publishing Business Conference & Expo, attorney Sara Pearl and literary agent John Silbersack, both of the highly-regarded Trident Media Group, gave Chris Kenneally their candid views on controversial contract clauses for all things digital.
This podcast – an abridged version of the original “live” program – is presented by special arrangement with the producers of Publishing Business Conference & Expo. Details on purchasing complete editions of this and many other programs from the 2010 expo are available here.
BTB #176: Interactive Textbooks: Poised For Success?
An emerging new generation of interactive textbooks stands to change fundamentally the way students, instructors and authors use, share and create academic texts. Advanced digital tools make possible the convenience of online and downloadable access options, and can mean a much lower-priced textbook. At last month’s annual conference of the Text & Academic Authors Association (TAA), Clancy Marshall of Dynamic Books and Jeff Shelstad of Flat World Knowledge detailed the opportunities and advantages for authors particularly.
A ‘Virtual Book’: CCC’s Google Seminar Series
To help keep rightsholders fully informed and up-to-date with the latest developments in the proposed class action settlement between Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, Copyright Clearance Center has offered a special educational series of interviews, seminars and presentations on the topic.
The attached PDF in “virtual book” form gathers together transcripts from six of these program presented from April 2009 to February 2010 and featuring Lois Wasoff, Esq.
All programs remain available for listening at copyright.com.
We hope you find these resources valuable to you and your work.
Cheers,
BTB #175: E-Magination: What’s Now & What’s Next in Ebooks (Part 2)
On Monday, May 24, 2010, CCC’s Christopher Kenneally moderated a panel for the Independent Book Publishers Association at their annual “Publishing University” program. Featured guests discussing E-Magination: What’s Now & What’s Next in Ebooks were Mark Coker, Smashwords; Jack Sallay, Vook; David Hetherington of Baker & Taylor’s Digital Service Group; and Sara Nelson, Books Editor, O Magazine (formerly Publishers Weekly editor-in-chief).
Beyond the Book is pleased to present an audio transcription of the program in two parts (this is part 2).
A complete video recording is also available at http://beyondthebookcast.com/live-webcast/
BTB #174: E-Magination: What’s Now & What’s Next in Ebooks (Part 1)
On Monday, May 24, 2010, CCC’s Christopher Kenneally moderated a panel for the Independent Book Publishers Association at their annual “Publishing University” program. Featured guests discussing E-Magination: What’s Now & What’s Next in Ebooks were Mark Coker, Smashwords; Jack Sallay, Vook; David Hetherington of Baker & Taylor’s Digital Service Group; and Sara Nelson, Books Editor, O Magazine (formerly Publishers Weekly editor-in-chief)
Beyond the Book is pleased to present an audio transcription of the program in two parts (this is part 1).
A complete video recording is also available at http://beyondthebookcast.com/live-webcast/
Best of BTB: Beyond Print & Paper
The flow of e-reader devices onto the consumer market has quickly shifted from a trickle to a flood. With consumers captivated by the iPad, nook, Kindle, Skiff Reader, and QUE, a massive surge in demand for digitally distributed content is inevitable. As a result, those who write and publish are struggling with a new wave of questions. How will device pricing models affect contracts and content ownership? How will copyrights be enforced in increasingly blogged, socialized, and cross-linked world? How can an author distribute their own work without compromising themselves or their publishing agreements? What will the e-book wars mean to writers and publishers? How can publishers broaden distribution without increasing risk?
On May 20th at the Samsung Experience in New York’s Time Warner Center, Chris Kenneally examined these and other questions with Andrew Richard Albanese, writer and features editor for Publishers Weekly; Rachel Chou, Chief Marketing Officer for Open Road Integrated Media; and attorney Kathleen Conkey (former in-house attorney at MTV Networks,CBS and King World Productions).
(more…)
