Rights & Licensing

This survey was conducted as a key follow on the pandemic one year on. It highlighted similar financial and human resource issues to the previous year affecting members. It showed some positive outlooks for the UK industry, and a slow return to pre- pandemic levels. It looked at recovery from overseas markets which remained largely uncertain. It also showed, signs of growth in areas such as merchandise products and online sales.

A comparison was made between this and the previous survey taken in 2018.

This survey was conducted during May - June 2018 and was completed by a total of 22 BAPLA members representing a wide variety of types and sizes of business.

The aim was to establish how our members were performing - where the revenue growth was but also what were the more challenging or declining markets.

An online survey of BAPLA members' current offerings in terms of simplified rights bundles and royalty-free pricing conducted in May 2017.

This survey was conducted in September and October 2016 and a total of 17 BAPLA members responded.

This represents 11% of the membership.

Although the total of responses was disappointing, the results do nevertheless give a clear picture of trends in this area.

This survey was conducted in December 2015-January 2016 and was completed by a total of 17 BAPLA members, representing members of a variety of types and sizes of business.

It is the first BAPLA survey dedicated to merchandising and retail products and it also analyses rights and pricing for a number of media which BAPLA has not surveyed before, including stationery products and clothing.

This survey by BAPLA's Rights Group was conducted in the Spring of 2015 and covered both standards and pricing in the web, social media and app markets and the results are shown in both text and graphic form.

This survey of rights and pricing in the advertising and promotion sector is based on anonymous online responses by just 26 BAPLA members.

The aim of the survey is to show how rights and pricing models are changing in this sector and to offer an objective, historical survey of pricing trends.

It must be kept in mind however, that only a small percentage of the membership answered the survey, so the results are not as completely representative as we would have liked.

This survey in two parts:

- Part 1 is on the place of footage within the industry and within libraries - how many libraries offer footage, % of their collection, % of sales, methods of licensing/pricing.

- Part 2 is on footage pricing - we had a disappointingly low response to this section, making it a partial survey of pricing trends and it should be treated as such.

There are three components to this report: a survey of BAPLA members, a clients' survey and reports and articles re the newspaper market.

There are four components to this report: a survey of BAPLA members, a survey of magazine publishers, a report on Publishing Expo March 2011, and last but not least a report on General Trends and Links, which will enable you to follow current and future developments in this sector for yourselves.

The digital rights model aims to provide a framework which libraries may use to determine under what circumstances it is appropriate to make an additional digital charge.

The PDF contains:

- Digital rights model magazines
- Background notes

These simple notes contain suggested questions to ask when approached to license images for app use, and some suggested parameters for working out a fee structure.

The end fee charged is at the discretion of each picture source.

This survey aims to address issues surrounding rights for e-books and new digital devices such as the iPad, the demand for digital use to be included within the printed licence fee (bundled rights), unlimited print runs and longer licence terms.

This model is not designed for digital only pricing and is for books only.

The PDF contains:

- Digital rights model books
- Background notes
- Basic questions to ask a client about digital rights

1. Make sure you understand exactly the details of use, including project title, end client and especially limiting factors such as time, size and print-run and the extent of different formats or media - ask your client questions until you are sure about the proposed usage.

This survey is a historical, objective analysis and summary of pricing trends and practices.

In addition to the 2008 pricing trends survey these surveys were conducted online and by telephone with picture buyers in various market sectors to give a more rounded view.