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Rights & Licensing

Rights & Licensing Events

Discover the diverse professional programme around rights and licensing

Rights & Licensing auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2020

Internationality, personal contacts and business - if there is one place where the global rights and licensing trade for all kinds of creative intellectual property is at home, it is at Frankfurter Buchmesse. Nowhere else will you find more literary agents and rights managers from all over the world than at the annual must-attend event in Frankfurt. Deepen your publishing know-how at a variety of events with international industry leaders and make new contacts.

Understanding what matters in the rights business today and tomorrow: with the Frankfurt Rights Meeting

Frankfurt Rights Meeting – Hybrid Edition

Get your Early Bird ticket now to benefit from innovative business cases, exclusive insights and networking with industry leaders at the hybrid Frankfurt Rights Meeting in September and October 2025. This year, we'll focus on the latest trends and data around AI, Digital Licensing, Spanish-Language Markets and Merchandising/Licensing.

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Further events, formats & platforms

Media library

Every year, Frankfurter Buchmesse hosts an extensive programme of events on all aspects of rights & licensing. Discover in-depth market insights, book-to-film sessions and other events with key industry players, hidden champions and regional experts free of charge in our media library - available 365 days a year.

Frankfurt Rights

Frankfurt Rights is Frankfurter Buchmesse’s international platform for the global rights and license trade. Here you can make and strengthen important business contacts, browse publisher profiles and catalogs, and use a wide range of useful tools to stay in touch with your colleagues and business partners throughout the year.

The Hof

Enjoy live music and entertainment and meet new faces and old friends at our new digital format The Hof with editions covering rights & licensing topics as well as the latest publishing trends worldwide each month.

Frankfurter Buchmesse's fellowship and grant programmes

Benefit from our further education and networking programmes. At seminars and workshops, you can learn more about international book markets and make new contacts at networking events.

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“the frankfurt magazine” – German Stories

“the frankfurt magazine” supplements our book collections and features selected titles. As an independent annual publication, it also contains interviews, essays and interesting, little-known facts about the German book market.

Why you should not miss Frankfurter Buchmesse

“Frankfurter Buchmesse is the platform for the international rights trade. It is particularly important for us to offer our customers quality digital services to complement the in-person fair, so that literary professionals, editors and rights and licenses managers from all over the world can be present and drive their business forward.”

Jenny Kühne

Director Rights & Licensing Solutions

"Frankfurter Buchmesse is not only the world's largest book fair, but also the most important. Especially when it comes to selling rights. Although many deals are closed before Frankfurter Buchmesse, it is still the decisive meeting place for the international publishing world."

Philip Sane

Director Lennart Sane Agency

A woman in portrait smiles into the camera

"After the establishment of my agency in 1994, Frankfurter Buchmesse and, above all, the LitAg played an important role in establishing a network for the distribution of the work of Paulo Coelho, today one of the most important and successful authors worldwide."

Mônica R. Antunes

Founder and Managing Director Sant Jordi Asociados