Rights, licensing and permissions

The Penguin Random House rights and licensing teams are part of a global organisation and offer bespoke expertise across a range of publishing and author brands.

There are several departments at Penguin who are responsible for licensing rights in different ways.

The Rights department licenses US rights, translations, film, serial and audio rights of complete books. They represent foreign and domestic rights across the company’s seven divisions.
The Permissions & Content Licensing team specifically deal with requests for extracts, illustrations and book covers, and accessible copies of books. They also grant permission to use one of our books as a prop, or to photocopy or record a non-dramatic voice reading of a text.
Penguin Ventures is the licensing and consumer products division of Penguin Random House UK. They manage and exploit our portfolio of iconic literary brands and characters: Peter Rabbit, The Snowman, Spot, Flower Fairies and more, across product, experience and digital

All rights licensing departments are in contact with each other, so please don’t worry if you think you may have sent your initial request to the wrong place – we work together behind the scenes to get requests to the right team!