Royalty and Rights Software for Smaller Publishers
The royalty and rights software listed here will meet the needs of smaller publishers that do not require the extensive functionality requested by larger publishers.
Prices for solutions in this section start range from about $5,000 to $50,000 USD.
Media Services and Vista international offer hosted solutions that do not require only internet access to access the software, no purchase of hardware is required.
Bradbury Phillips Rights and Royalties software has the largest client base of book publishers using stand alone (non-ERP integrated) software.
Bradbury Phillips, Musicalc, That's Rights, Trilogy, and Vista have offices in the United Kingdom. We tend to recommend that UK based publishers use software from companies with offices in the United Kingdom.
Acumen
Cyberwolf's AcumenBook ERP product offers a royalty and rights module designed to meet the needs of publishers with sales of $1M thru $20M. AcumenBook is used by over170 publishers in North America.
In 2007 Acumen released an optional Rights Management and Marketing Module to facilitate the marketing of intellectual property rights.
Bradbury Phillips
Bradbury Phillips International is the publisher of the Bradbury Phillips Rights Management, Permissions, Agents' Accounts and Authors' Royalties software, leading the field the past 20 years, and in use at over 250 sites in the UK and North America.
Bradbury Phillips software is the most widely used stand alone rights and royalties solution used by publishers.
Media Services' Elan Rights And Royalties
The Elan Rights and Royalties Module is designed for ease of use and easy integration with standalone accounting and ERP solutions, in addition to being offered as an upgrade to Media Services' Bookworksm, Cats Pajamas and CisPub book publishing software clients.
As an ASP solution this software solution only internet access is required to access the software.
Musicalc
Musicalc ® is the royalty accounting software package that is used by more independent Record and Music Publishing companies all over the world than any other. We support users throughout the known World and Universe.
Musicalc Systems Limited was formed in 1982 to develop and market PC based software for the Music Industry. The software design is based on an in-depth knowledge of how the Industry works with the benefit of live, in-house, record and publishing companies and has been the market leader for more than 22 years.
Thats Rights
That's Rights! solutions help you manage your intellectual properties, from creation or acquisition through submission, licensing, permissions, co-editions and royalty statements. Generate day-to-day tracking reports, business reports, mailing lists, client summaries, title reports, and more. Import and export data for use with other systems or for exchanging information with other departments or associates.
That's Rights! is a desktop application that helps you manage and drive your rights activities. Designed primarily for publishers, That's Rights! is ideal for anyone who buys OR sells translation or subsidiary rights around the globe.
Trilogy Group
Title Management solution offers powerful rights and royalties solutions to satisfy the most demanding contract requirements. The system allows full control of the contract process, including the set up of all rights details, which automatically control the subsequent set up of all the royalty rules. For Publishers selling rights, a complete rights management system includes the control of submissions, options and bids.
It tracks the receipt of rights and royalty receipts, and has a full integration to both sales and purchase ledgers for a number of optional financial systems, including Great Plains and Navision.
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Vista
VISTA’s author2reader™ hosted Royalties solution combines the same high end features as those enjoyed by major publishers of capturing, maintaining and distributing royalties data, ensuring authors are paid accurately on time and according to contract. By using a hosted environment, publishers can focus more time on the business of publishing, leaving information technology activities to VISTA experts.
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Software Overview
Acumen - Royalties and rights for book publishers. 170+ clients.
Bradbury Phillips - Royalties and rights for book publishers. 250+ clients
Media Services - Affordable hosted royalties and rights solution.
Musicalc - Royalties for music publishers. Over 190 clients.
That's Rights - Affordable rights and permission management.
Trilogy Group - Royalties and rights for book publishers. Over 60 clients.
Vista - Royalties and rights for book publishers. Over 100 clients. Stand-alone and hosted solutions.