The first New York Rights Fair opens for three days starting Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Pavilion. Manhattan is an ideal setting for a conference covering sales, negotiation and distribution of rights to content across all formats including print, digital, audio, film and television, notes Rachel Deahl, Executive Director of Programming for the New York Rights Fair as well as News Director at Publishers Weekly.

The center of the U.S. publishing industry, New York has one of the world's largest communities of literary agents and scouts, says Deahl. New York is also home to a growing number of film production companies, all of whom are always on the lookout to license intellectual property and to purchase film rights, she tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally, host of Beyond the Book.

Deahl’s colleague Krista Rafanello, PW Senior Marketing Director and the NYRF Show Manager, joins her to preview the NYRF program.