Backlist Titles May Require Photo Rights For eBook Editions
Turning a print book into an eBook is not just about obtaining rights from the author and learning how to format for the Kindle store, it can also require obtaining rights to images and artwork.
Digital Book World explains in more detail: “There’s nothing inherently tricky about images. They are intellectual property, subject to the same copyright regulation as any other. It’s just that a standard biography, for example, can contain images from dozens of different sources, each included in the book under a slightly different agreement depending on where it came from (the subject’s family, historical archives, a stock photography agency).
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