Selling the rights to future royalties is an emerging opportunity for top authors. For accomplished professionals, the ability to engage in legacy management, diversify financial assets, or prepare their estates by selling all or part of their future royalties is a growing need. In some life circumstances, an immediate payment based on a valuation of years of anticipated royalties can make a real difference in an author’s quality of life.
As a Deal Advisor, I’ll validate, then accelerate, the rights sales process for authors who are interested in finding Literary Rights Investors. Authors must have a strong track record of earned royalties over a multi-year timeframe. Royalties earned must be consistent and robust enough to interest investors.
Tim Cooper
As a result, within the next few years demand for literary rights will drive major deals for authors that are comparable to highly publicized announcements in the music publishing space involving Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Paul Simon, David Crosby, and many other prominent artists. All of these deals involved selling rights to future royalties from music publishing to investors for upfront payment.
More to come…