Lynette Owen is responsible for the Spotlight on Rights programme during ADIBF. It’s a subsidy programme where publishers can get a subsidy of up to US $4000 for translating and publishing a book. The programme also helps in writing a rights contract. In this talk Lynette will introduce SOR and some key points on the buying and selling of rights. Kindly note that all rules referred to in the session was valid in 2015 but may change in the future. Lynette Owen is a copyright and rights consultant, based in the United Kingdom. She has worked in the area of rights for Cambridge University Press, Pitman Publishing, Marshall Cavendish and Pearson Education, where she held the post of Copyright Director. She lectures regularly about rights on publishing degree courses in the UK, and also runs training courses, most recently in Brazil, India, Malaysia and the Middle East.