About

Clare Painter is a digital rights and contracts specialist with more than 25 years’ experience in publishing rights: she has been licensing content in digital markets for 17 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 more than 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.

See more at http://www.linkedin.com/in/clarepainter

Get Started in Digital Licensing

Information and practical know-how for publishers who want to build a successful licensing revenue stream for their business

To join the Digital Rights Clinic described in the video, email info AT clare-painter.co.uk   You can also view the same short video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5_2tWZmD3g

  •  Tools and templates to help you sort through filing cabinets full of legacy contracts   - How many of those contracts include digital rights, and what should you do about those that don’t?
  • Step by step guides, and template letters for clearing additional rights where needed
  • A guide to the best digital markets for your individual list - E-book readers, huge content databases, smart phones and mobiles, individual consumers, libraries and institutions – many of these will be within your sights
  • The file formats they’ll expect, and what else you’ll need to provide
  • How to begin marketing your digital titles