Continuing a global trend to bundle digital and print, current and future rights, leading U.K. publishing company Bauer Media is rolling out new photographer contracts that seek “in perpetuity” copyright and moral rights transfers, reports BJP. Bauer Media will phase in these changes across all of its magazine titles.
Company spokesperson told BJP that there has been a fundamental change in its brands from magazines to multi-platform products—Web sites, events and television. The reason for expanding the rights it seeks is not difficult to see.v