It's not the exact same thing as the movie rights industry, but check out this series of posts about fiction book publishing: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/bl

It's not the exact same thing as the movie rights industry, but check out this series of posts about fiction book publishing: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-misconceptions-about-pu-1.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m... (particularly http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/03/cmap-4-territories-translation.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/03/cmap-4-t...)