IPR License is the platform on which to list and license literary rights. The platform offers the opportunity to monetise or find the best new content in a global marketplace. It also acts as a copyright hub making it easier to locate copyright holders to clear permission for use of their work.
Who are IPR License?
IPR License is a company developed out of IPR Connections, whose management have a successful 40-year history in licensing intellectual property.
For full details of the management’s history, click here.
By Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License
Let’s begin with the bombshell that millions of authors are missing out on hundreds, thousand, millions, or even billions of $’s, £’s, or the equivalent currency each year. Yes that much. How I hear you ask? Well, through missed opportunities and a lack of knowledge of books rights and licensing.
According to a recent survey commissioned here at IPR License (www.iprlicense.com), almost 50% of authors responded that were unsure if they own the world rights to their book. In addition, only 1 in 10 authors said that they had ever licensed their work to an overseas publisher. These worrying statistics go some way to explaining why such large amounts of potential income are going untapped. Not to mention the fact that far too many authors don’t understand the intricacies or merits of rights and licensing.
Rights licensing is licensing the rights to publish your work in different countries, languages and formats, as well as into movies and TV, media rights such as serialisations and readings, and new technology rights such as apps and so on. Last year, in professional publishing alone, licensing was said to be worth £1.5bn.
And now help is at hand.
When joining IPR License we immediately make your work part of an online database of available rights therefore enabling you to monetise from across the globe. Our digital platform allows you to showcase your work to a worldwide publishing audience, opening the door to a number of international, as well as domestic, markets which may previously have appeared out of reach.
As your work is part of our database for a full year we help level the playing field for self-published, indie and unpublished authors as member publishers can use our extensive online search to find any type of book, at any given time. They use this function to fill the gaps in their lists and as your work is available 24/7 this helps combat the problems of hitting the right desk at exactly the right time to get the deal that it deserves.
We also send out a regular bulletin to over 50,000 publishers (not just our members) in over 90 countries highlighting our members’ work. Enquiries are then passed directly on and we also have experienced rights staff at IPR License supporting all members.There is no shortage of authors that make the majority of their money from licensing regularly in their key territories and with IPR License you can complete worldwide deals from your desktop and tap into the lucrative international rights market.
So why not join IPR License today and help your book go global. If you require any further information just drop us a line at info@irplicense.com and we’d be happy to answer all your questions.
IPR License was launched in 2012 and is the global, digital marketplace for authors, agents and publishers to list and license book rights. See www.iprlicense.com or email info@iprlicense.com for more information.
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