Rights Overview

By managing our authors’ rights, we help protect their works from infringement and facilitate the marketing and cataloging of their books.

For more information about how rights are handled in our publishing contracts, see Guide to Contracts.

Before Publication

• An ISBN is an internationally recognized identifier of a work. ISBNs are used to catalog books online, in brick-and-mortar stores, and elsewhere. White Deer Publishing assigns an ISBN to each format and edition of a book we publish (including paperback, hardcover, ebook, workbook companions, revised/second editions, etc.).
• The Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is a serially based system of numbering cataloging records in the Library of Congress. Librarians all over the world use this unique identifier in the process of cataloging most books that have been published in the U.S. It helps them reach the correct cataloging data (known as a cataloging record), which the Library of Congress and third parties make available on the Web and through other media. White Deer Publishing applies for an LCCN for each book we publish. LCCNs are not available for workbooks.

After Publication

• Copyright is a legal protection of original creative work. Copyright exists automatically in an original work of authorship once it is fixed in a tangible medium, but a copyright owner can take steps to enhance the protections of copyright by registering the work with the U.S. Copyright Office. White Deer Publishing registers our authors’ books for them.
• An OCLC number is a unique control number given to all bibliographic records in the WorldCat catalog. The control numbers link WorldCat's records to local library system records by providing a common reference key for a record across libraries. Titles are added to WorldCat based on the cataloging information sent by member libraries, so publishers do not have a direct path to request an OCLC number.