Sarah is highly regarded for her work in Rights and Permissions. She has worked as a permissions consultant and picture researcher in-house and freelance since 2006.
Permission Seeking for all third party material
Photo Research for all budgets and deadlines
Copyright Advice for authors and publishers
Sarah has worked on behalf of many leading publishers all over the world including Pearson Education, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, HarperCollins, Penguin, Scholastic, Macmillan and SAYEGH .
She has also worked for WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation), a division of the United Nations.
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Sarah is known for her friendly, enabling and pragmatic approach to complex tasks. Her in-depth knowledge of law relating to copyright enables her to identify risk and find solutions.
Permissions
Incorporating material that has been created by others in your own publication can be daunting. But often, especially in the world of educational publishing, it is not possible to create your title without using third party material. All sorts of wonderful resources can fall within this category, such as prose, poetry, music lyrics or score, illustrations, scientific data, journal extracts, logos, screenshots, graphs, works of art or photographs.
I have a huge amount of experience in identifying copyright holders, requesting permission and negotiating fees and terms depending on the requirements of my customers. I also have the experience to know whether permission is likely to be granted, how long it will take and how much it will cost.
If something you would like to use appears prohibitive, all is not lost, as I will work with you to find an alternative.
Picture Research
Pictures make a publication come alive. It is a cliché, but a picture is worth a thousand words. In empirical studies, it has been demonstrated that young children can understand complex images even before they learn to read.
As well as having a extensive experience in researching images for a huge breadth of publications, for many different publishers, I am also a graphic designer, author and illustrator so understand all of the functions that a picture must fulfil.
I am a champion of accessibility and diversity and this feeds into my image research. I have a large amount of experience researching photos for all markets and am sensitive when encompassing cultural considerations.
I have established contacts with many photo providers and can work with you to find the right images to fit your budget and licence requirements. My research and negotiation skills can ensure you get the best images at the best possible rate.
If something you would like to use appears prohibitive, all is not lost, as I will work with you to find an alternative.
First Steps
When you are at planning stage, please get in touch so we can talk about how I can help you with your project, whether that is simply a little advice or embarking on the clearance of many items. So much wasted effort and expense can be saved by planning and assessing the use of third party content in good time.
How long
Your schedule is as important to me as it is to you and I will work with you to meet your publication date. If your title includes lots of text permissions, your schedule needs to take account of potential delays (for example tardy responses from rights holders), so please talk to me at planning stage.
Fees
My fees are flexible and we can discuss whether an hourly rate or per item fee suits you better.