10Foreign publishing revenue, rights, and deals

Copyright issues and intellectual property rights are, in fact, part of a global system. They operate within national jurisdictions, but copyright standards are part of an international system operating, in many cases, through international treaties.

Foreign Sub-Publishing Deals

Foreign Sub-Publishing entails the administration of rights and the exploitation of works in a foreign territory, via a license from the Original Publisher. There are two predominant strategies for managing music copyrights in foreign territories. One method is to grant the world-wide foreign rights, outside of the Original Territory, to a single publisher, in a “Rest-of-World” (RoW) deal. The other method, a Territory Deal, ...

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