Instant Rights & Permissions

The problem

Rights and permissions work is still largely manual correspondence: find the content, find the contact, negotiate, paper the deal – the same effort for a two-line quotation as for a translation deal.

The solution

Frankfurt Rights runs the fair's network year-round. Instant Permissions lets rights holders pre-define terms so small routine requests clear in a few steps; Instant Rights does the same for straightforward translation deals. Complex negotiations still route through the platform for administration.

What is distinctive

It also accepts AI-related licensing requests – individually negotiated, but at least arriving somewhere rather than nowhere.

Evidence

• Operated by Frankfurter Buchmesse, incorporating the former IPR License business.
• No transaction, title or publisher counts are published.

Compiled from public sources, August 2026. Not yet reviewed by the organisation.