Rights Direction

Clare Painter is a digital rights and contracts specialist with more than 24 years’ experience in publishing rights: she has been licensing content in digital markets for 16 years. She has assisted many publishers taking their first steps into digital publishing, guiding them through widely-varying business models and negotiating licensing agreements with favourable terms.

Clare is an associate at licensing agency Attwooll Associates Ltd, representing around 20 publishers for digital rights.

She is a regular co-tutor on Digital Licensing Agreements at the Publishing Training Centre in London (see Events), with particular strengths in agreements relating to e-books, and databases of aggregated content.

She has lectured on digital rights as part of the MA Publishing course at Oxford Brookes University, and is Copyright and Permissions consultant at Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press, advising journal authors on digital rights.

Rights Direction Ltd, founded in 2009, grew out of Clare’s flourishing business as a self-employed rights consultant, which had been running in Oxfordshire since 2002.

Previously, Clare was Rights Director at multi-platform reference publisher Helicon Publishing, a pioneer in electronic and multimedia publishing with wholly owned reference databases of over 20 million words. There, she was responsible for rights licences online, in print and on CD-ROM from the mid-1990’s, building up significant online revenues.

Clare first stepped into rights and copyright in Italy, whilst working at Mondadori in Milan (Arnoldo Mondadori Editore) on agreements for rights and co-editions. Fluent in Italian, she has successfully sold illustrated reference books across Europe and beyond.