Carrie Bishop

Copyright Consultant

Senior Rights and Permissions Analyst

End-to-end rights management of all third party assets within UK Schools (UKS) and BTEC businesses (annual 60K+ assets), acting as the core R&P portfolio and business unit liaison between multiple stakeholders throughout the publication lifecycle, from content development to release (print and digital; text, images, audio and video). R&P training lead for UKS and Work Force Skills-BTEC for in-house and vendor suppliers.

Key Accomplishments and Responsibilities

●      Management of external R&P vendor teams (6 direct reports), and freelancers to ensure all research, permission reviews and licensing delivered in a timely and effective manner within production deadlines, to approved QC standards, budget and editorial needs

●      Ensured effective collaboration between internal andexternal editorial, project management, marketing, legal and permissions teams,in a multi-vendor production and rights ecosystem, which delivered alignmentwith business rights strategies and policies

●      Designed and integrated end-to-end cross-departmental IP/rights processes, standardised schedules, and supporting materials across print, digital, media and marketing, delivering transparent, coherent, and accountable delivery models, operational efficiencies and enhanced ‘real time’ financial reporting to the business

●      Utilising demand planning and cost forecasting tools, led UKS and BTEC R&P Forward Planning and Delivery groups to facilitate timely loading balancing, resource management and business delivery, driving continuous supplier performance improvement with over 97% of titles delivered on time and within budget.

●      Successfully collaborated with BTEC and UKS division partners to onboard divisions into R&P workflows

●      Supported R&P Manager with analysis and drafting of partnership agreements to ensure alignment between external stakeholders and corporate Global R&P Frameworks, such as the MoD, the NHS, and LiverpoolFootball Club

●      R&P training lead, providing ongoing guidance and up-skilling to a diverse audience, including internal R&P colleagues, R&P vendor partners, editorial and delivery teams. My core remit was to nurture IP awareness and knowledge (legal, DRM systems, process), and help place R&P best practice at the heart of editorial culture. I worked within a collaborative framework to drive legal compliance, operational efficiencies, process alignment and protect rights system data integrity

●      Mentoring and recruitment role for internal and external R&P colleagues, with a proven commitment to the pastoral support and professional development of the UKS and BTEC R&P Team and my direct reports

●      Designed and led the implementation of product taxonomy to support immediate and longer-term product delivery and development for ActiveHub, a core digital transformation project for UK Schools

Project Rights Officer (Development Phase)

Unlocking Our Sound Heritage

A major £18.8 million access and preservation project to save 1/2 million unique sound recordings for the nation.  The material spans a vast range of content type acquired over decades, from pop and radio broadcasts to drama, world and traditional music, ethnographic and culturally sensitive content, classical works, wildlife and environmental sound and oral histories, engaging a multiplicity of highly complex licensing, intellectual property and data protection considerations including ethical evaluations associated with sensitive cultural materials.  

Key Accomplishments and Responsibilities

Responsible for devising all IPR and sensitive content legal, risk and production frameworks for the project, associated resource planning and securing institutional buy-in for these approaches. This work was instrumental in successfully reframing funder, and internal, expectations of core delivery and budget requirements, and helped secure a successful R2 funding bid with increased project resources.  

●      Led the development of risk frameworks for IPR and sensitive content and project IPR and data protection workflows, ensuring the efficient use of project resources, and deliver pragmatic, legally compliant, corporate responsibility profiles for implementation across multiple departments

●      Led the creation of project IPR metadata and cataloguing standards for sound recordings across all project content types. These standards have now been adopted as the base line standard for corporateIPR and sensitive content requirements in sound recordings.      

●      Headed the delivery of efficient technical solutions for capturing and managing the complex rights and sensitive content data generated by project content, saving the project thousands of work hours

●      Delivered key reports on rights and sensitive content tot he Project Board and HLF briefings, resulting in a successful re-negotiation of core delivery commitments and financial support with the HLF (the project funders) and influencing corporate and project approaches

●      Created and oversaw pilot studies for data protection andsensitive content and cataloguing workflows

●      Delivered curatorial and project briefings to funders andinternal stakeholders

●      Developed rights and sensitive content training materialsin sound recordings, for library and project partners

Project Rights Officer

Tate Archives and Access Project

The largest archive open  access project undertaken by a UK gallery of in copyright work at the time, I managed all IPR matters related to project content to ensure delivery of over 52,000 pieces within Tate’s archive for online and further use for internal and external stake holders. 

Core responsibilities and successes 

I delivered the most successful access to content, both in terms of volume and licensing, fora Heritage Lottery Fund digitisation project ever, doing so under budget. The project frameworks have now been adopted as the HLF model for all their future funding projects.

Rights Negotiations & Budget management

• Successfully negotiated licensing agreements with the UK’s key artist collecting societies and 1000+ separate rights holders delivering all project goals under budget.
• The collecting society agreements delivered a sustainable model for licensing archival content for Tate as well as the wider cultural heritage sector 
  
• Delivered 99.75% of all content for online and wider publication
  
• Realized the largest delivery of copyright art works under Creative Commons undertaken by a UK gallery.  Negotiated with rights holders to secure over +80% of material under Creative Commons, surpassing project targets
• Reporting to the Project Manager, I was responsible for IPR reports to funding partners, including presenting to the project's external specialist IPR group

Research & Tracing 

• Undertook extensive global research and tracing of rights holders
  

Due Diligence & Institutional Risk Management

• Responsible for conducting all rights due diligence and release assessments in line with institutional risk management and reputational frameworks. As well as orphan works, I assessed content for release in line with adult/sexual content/sensitive material legal provisions and data protection law
  

Workflow Tracking & Documentation

• Responsible for all rights tracking and documentation

Liaison and Communication

• The first point of contact regarding IPR and project content, I worked closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure rights negotiated secured their associated project goals

Copyright Stakeholder Training & Conferences

• Delivered copyright training to project learning partners and Tate departments
• Created IP training material for both internal and onward use by Heritage Lottery Fund partners
• Delivered conference talks about IPR and the project 

Technical

• Core member of technical delivery team and project delivery teams 

Administrative Assistance: ClearlySo, Outline Editions               

For my final year of my law degree, I concentrated on my studies, supporting myself by providing administrative support on a freelance basis for the gallery and artist management company, Outline Editions, and ClearlySo - a social enterprise financing and angel investment start-up.

• ClearlySo: Part of the editing team delivering a Big Society Capital/City of London commissioned report on the SocialEnterprise Business Sector; Production Assistant: ClearlySo Social Enterprise Conference 2012; Ident Producer: ClearlySo Social Business of the Year Award.
  
• Outline Editions: Acting Gallery Manager

Media Relations Officer

Initially working on a freelance basis I was asked to head up media relations on along-term contract for this strategic communications consultancy, supporting the Account Executives in delivering campaign communication goals across an eclectic mix of client accounts including corporate, government and NGOs.

Campaigns and clients

GAIN (Global Alliance for Advanced Nutrition): First Ladies Summits (New York, South Africa)

• Secured global coverage raising awareness of the work of GAIN during UN week, including Graça Machel (Nelson Mandela’s wife) for The Guardian & El Pais; multiple BBC and CNN interviews for Malawi’s Minister for HIV/AIDs Dr Mary Shawa and Kenyan First Lady, Lady Ida Odinga
• Organised international press tours for journalists to South Africa for the GAIN Annual Conference

Arab Thought Foundation: FIKR Annual Conference (Kuwait)

• The Arab Thought Foundation is a  charitable foundation working toadvance the economic, social and cultural development of the Arab region).  The annual FIKR conference has emerged as the leading forum for debate on Arab cultural and economic issues, forging practical solutions for the region to benefit future generations.
• Organised international press tours for journalists to Kuwait to attend FIKR

FDI media outreach for the government investment arms of Indonesia and Malaysia

Core role and responsibilities

Strategic Communications

• Devising and execution of media campaigns: copy writing and press releases; OpEd placement; pitching stories/interviewees; co-ordination of interviews and press calls including all technical service support; preparation of client briefings; media monitoring & client reports; distribution of press & publicity materials; maintenance of press databases.
• On the ground experience of securing and managing live and pre-recorded international broadcast interviews for Heads of State, CEOs, leading industry and international commentators
  
• Responsiblefor managing the media outreach team for international print and broadcast client comms
  
• Organised international press tours for journalists
  
• Business development: Supporting Account Executives developing international strategic communications campaigns and assisting in securing over £7 million of new business and contract renewals for clients across Europe, Asia and the Middle East 

Project Coordinator, Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards (UK)

Core Responsibilities: A multi-platform live awards show, my role was to ensure seamless inter-departmental coordination, working with executives and departmental teams across marketing, promotions, production and events. I was also responsible for the licensing of external content for the event, broadcast, marketing and publicity for multi-platform exploitation

Archive Producer/Production Coordinator/Researcher

Core Responsibilities/Archive Producer: Managing all aspects related to thesourcing, acquisition and exploitation of acquired content (footage, music,artists, stills) for all the major UK, and international broadcasters includingeditorial and promotional uses.

Core Responsibilities/ProductionCoordinator/researcher:  Coordinating network & regionalproductions from inception to completion; series research (contributors,locations); production and financial administration, scheduling in the UK andoverseas.

●      Series/programmes include: Meeting Mandela (MTVInternational), Ricky Gervais Meets…(C4), Louis Theroux: My Holiday with Brucie(BBC); Tabloid Tales with Piers Morgan (BBC), World’s Greatest ComedyCharacters (C4), Actor’s Actor (Channel 4), Sky Premier League Title Sequence,Vids (C4), Island Harvest (BBC), Commercial Production Dept (ScottishTelevision), Angus Deayton’s New Year’s Dishonours (ITV), Channel Four Nationsand Regions Hub, Chart Bite (Scottish Television), T in the Park (ScottishTelevision)