Frankfurt Rights is Frankfurter Buchmesse’s new platform for the international rights and licence trade. Anyone interested in buying rights can sign up to Frankfurt Rights, browse the platform, contact sellers, and initiate business. Rights Sellers can set up an online presence of their company and content as well as facilitate transactions by using Frankfurt Rights' productivity tools.

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Benefits for our Buyers

Discover and buy international rights and permissions online

DISCOVER titles across all genres and be inspired by the latest content

CONNECT with your established partners and find new contacts from all over the world

EXCHANGE ideas with rightsholders and get access to content samples and other relevant rights information

Frankfurt Rights is designed to support rights professionals and editors on a daily and weekly basis as they make acquisition decisions. This platform brings together buyers, sellers, and relevant rights information on a single, easy-to-use platform— there is no more searching through multiple websites, PDFs, and emails to find the information and contacts you need. Our digital communication and presentation tools keep your rights business run smoothly, no matter where you work from. As a buyer you can always use Frankfurt Rights for free — there is no subscription required.

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Benefits of becoming a seller member

Frankfurt Rights is the leading online platform for buying and selling rights internationally that enables communication, information sharing and transactions between rights buyers and sellers, allowing publishers to focus more efficiently on relationships and content.

Built on IPR License’s established platform by an experienced team of rights and publishing experts, Frankfurt Rights is designed to support rights professionals on a daily and weekly basis as they make sales decisions and already in use by major publishers around the world. From nonfiction and academic works to fiction, children’s books, and more — the platform is for all types of publishers selling subrights, including translation, audio, film, permissions, and more.

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Trusted Partner

National Academies Press

The National Academies Press (NAP)publish the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. They published more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics.
Trusted Partner

Phoenix Publishing and Media Inc

Headquartered in Nanjing, Jiangsu, Phoenix Publishing and Media Inc.is not only a leading enterprise in the publishing and book distribution industry, but also a benchmark enterprise for listed companies in China.
Trusted Partner

United States Institute of Peace

TheUnited States Insitute of Peace was created by the US congress as a federally funded presscreatingworks toprevent and resolve global conflict by providing education and resources to work towards peace.
Trusted Partner

Wochenschau Verlag

Das Programm des Wochenschau Verlags bietet Bücher zur Didaktik und Unterrichtspraxis der Fächer Politik, Geschichte, Ökonomie und Geographie

What our members can expect:

A custom publisher portal, including profile, key titles and branding
Unlimited upload of titles to the platform
Instant Offer — automated, fully customizable, flat fee transactions
Instant Permissions — automated, fully customizable, permissions transactions
Instant Rights Guide — quickly created and exported rights catalogues
Advanced messaging functionality between buyers and sellers
Comprehensive search and browsing features
A 24-hour global market

We also offer a White Label solution that allows our members to individualize and brand their Rights Portal so as to look like their own website. They can integrate the Frankfurt Rights services directly into their website and offer a seamless one-stop-shop experience to customers.

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We switched to Frankfurt Rights 9 months ago and are thrilled about the reduced workload. The customers accepted the transition very well, the contracts can be closed easily and quickly, and we have more time for other projects. In fact, it was great that we switched to Frankfurt Rights last year, since I am currently not in the office and wouldn’t be able to send the permissions out on paper. With IPR, however, it works flawlessly. Overall, the change was more than worth it and we spend considerably less time issuing permissions than before.

Friederike Fuxen

Rights Director

Loewe Verlag was founded in 1863 by Ferdinand Loewe. In 1965, the Loewe Verlag acquired its current shape, which has allowed it to become one of the largest and most successful publishers of books for children and young people in the German-speaking area. Loewe seeks to provide quality books that enrich the lives of children and young people. The aim is to encourage children to read and improve their reading skills.

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“Frankfurt Rights helps us to handle the administrative part of the reprint permissions quickly and effectively. Through the platform we quickly receive all the relevant information concerning the inquiry. This saves important time for other foreign rights projects.”

Bianca Kuchenbrod

Rights Manager

Arena Verlag is one of the major publishing companies for children’s and young adult fiction in Germany. Founded in 1949, its place of business has been Würzburg ever since. Since 1979, Arena Verlag has been a part of the Westermann Publishing Group. The name Arena stands for knowledge and entertainment; for sophisticated, informative, and simultaneously thrilling children’s and young adult fiction. With about 2,000 available titles, Arena Verlag today offers a diverse range for infants, children, and young adults on hand. There’s something to discover for everyone!

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"Frankfurt Rights provides an easy to use platform for both sellers and buyers which CABI uses as its main marketplace for selling book rights and has contracted a number of translations of its titles through the platform. This has saved hugely on staff time for a small team, which is a definite plus for us, and the process is pretty straightforward and easy to administer. The Frankfurt Rights team is quick to respond to queries and the platform is a great way to showcase our titles and market them to a wider audience than would have been the case previously. We are happy to recommend Frankfurt Rights for selling book rights."

Susan Philcox

Knowledge Business Intellectual Property Manager

CABI is an international, inter-governmental, not-for-profit organisation that improves people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Our book publishing programme covers the life sciences and sustainable development, contributing to study, practice and professional development, with 6 main subject areas: Agriculture and International Development; Environmental Sciences; Human Sciences; Plant Sciences; Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure; Veterinary and Animal Sciences.

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“Without exception, we handle the area of permissions via Frankfurt Rights Instant Permissions. From communication with the licensees to issuing license agreements and generating royalty statements, the licensing portal offers an enormous enrichment in the daily rights trade. The intuitive and constantly evolving user interface greatly simplifies rights handling for both sides. We will intensify our work with the portal and create an even broader range of services on IPR.”

Viktoria Grandt

Manager Rights & Licenses

The name Carl Hanser stands for a publishing house with a variety that is second to none. The range spans from picture books, children’s and young adult literature to contemporary literature from all regions of the world. This literary program is complemented by classic literature from international authors and nonfiction books that impart knowledge and initiate discussions.

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“IPR allow us to simplify and standardize how we process reprint requests. Our customers can purchase licenses without waiting for confirmation from us, and we can concentrate on more complex special cases, which are often more interesting. This is how licensees and licensors profit from the opportunities that Frankfurt Rights’s automated permissions tools offer.”

Johanna Tragler

Rights & Licenses

Paul Zsolnay Verlag, founded in 1924 in Vienna by Paul Zsolnay, publishes international and German-language literature, classics and collected works, literary crime novels, and a wide palette of humanities and political nonfiction books. The backlist includes Henning Mankell, Ruth Klüger, Graham Greene, Daniel Glattauer, Leo Perutz, Ivo Andric and John Steinbeck. Since 1996, Paul Zsolnay Verlag has been part of the Carl Hanser Group. In 2004, Zsolnay acquired Deuticke Verlag, which was founded in Vienna in 1878.

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