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Nov Dec 21

Licensing in K-12 publishing…

Publishing houses follow an elaborate process of seeking, negotiating and acquiring permission from copyright holders (who could be the original writer, an estate, a literary agent, a relative, and so on) to use the material that they wish…

The Midnight Years

Surely as a teenager you must have felt those physical, physiological, psychological, emotional and behavioural storms that all teens experience. What has changed now for Indian teenagers? Nothing. And everything. Their world is more…

Role of a literary agent in rights management

Many writers who reach out to me express a desire to live off their writings. But unless such ‘intellectual property’ is recognized as owned by a person and paid for use, it could just remain a dream. While some form of IP rights has been…

Copyrights, licensing and other rights in libraries

Libraries, publishers and users are the main stakeholders in libraries. Libraries need to protect the interests of both users and publishers. Universal access to information is one of the important human rights. Professor (Dr.) Ramesh C.…

“Improvise, adapt, overcome” all the way!

DK, an award-winning global publisher, creates illustrated reference books that are sold in over 100 countries and published in 63 languages. DK at the forefront of technology “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable…

Rights and licensing: In the publishing industry

Rights and the process of licensing has been a vital part of the development of publishing worldwide. The explosion of knowledge over the past 100 years would not have happened without the trading of rights and licensing of copyright. If…