Publishers' Licensing Services (PLS) has provided collective licensing and rights management services to the UK publishing industry since 1981.
We are owned and directed by four UK trade associations representing publishers’ interests:
For more information please visit our website at www.pls.org.uk.
The Rights and Licensing Hub is an initiative supported by Publishers' Licensing Services to share knowledge and encourage best practice in Rights and Licensing in all areas of the publishing industry and raise awareness of the importance of good rights management.
The information on this website was created by a group of industry rights experts in the UK that meet regularly to discuss current issues in rights and licensing and work to create more content and guidance to support others working in publishing.
Contact us with queries or to contribute content to the site at rights@pls.org.uk.
The PLS Rights Management Group was created to share knowledge and encourage best practice in Rights and Licensing in all areas of the publishing industry and raise awareness of the importance of good rights management. Members of the Group must have proven experience and expertise in rights management work.
The Group is made up of rights experts and consultants from all sectors of publishing and includes representatives from the following organisations:
Cambridge University Press
Condé Nast
Egmont
Faber & Faber
Hachette
HarperCollins
Harriman House
Hearst UK
Immediate Media
IOP Publishing
Kogan Page
Laurence King Publishers
Michael O'Mara
Nosy Crow
O'Reilly
Oxford University Press
Pan Macmillan
Pearson
SAGE
Scholastic
Springer Nature
Thames and Hudson
Wiley
Yale University Press