Frances Pinter
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Social sciences
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and humanities
Humanities
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; Bloomsbury Academic both markets the books commercially using print on demand
Print on demand
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technology and also provides free digital versions with Creative Commons licenses
Creative Commons licenses
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for non-commercial use.
She is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
, where she conducts research into how active participants in global civil society
Civil society
Civil society is composed of the totality of many voluntary social relationships, civic and social organizations, and institutions that form the basis of a functioning society, as distinct from the force-backed structures of a state , the commercial institutions of the market, and private criminal...
frame the reform agenda of intellectual property rights. Previously, she served as a consultant to Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
and wrote an article explaining its goals for Writers Magazine 2008.
Foundation of Pinter Publishers
Frances Pinter set up her own publishing company, Pinter Publishers, in 1973, at the age of 23, which focussed on the social sciences and is believed to be the first BritishUnited Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
publishing company owned by a woman. In 1985 she was joined by Iain Stevenson who founded the environmental imprint Belhaven Press in 1986 and acquired the humanities publisherUniversity of Leicester
University of Leicester
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Press. Belge). Frances Pinter, 2009. Web
World Wide Web
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. Accessed 22 March 2009. Belhaven Press was sold to John Wiley & Sons in 1993 and Pinter Publishers itself disposed to Cassell shortly afterwards.
The Centre for Publishing Development
In 1994 financier and philanthropist George SorosGeorge Soros
George Soros is a Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, philosopher, and philanthropist. He is the chairman of Soros Fund Management. Soros supports progressive-liberal causes...
hired her to become the head of his Open Society Institute
Open Society Institute
The Open Society Institute , renamed in 2011 to Open Society Foundations, is a private operating and grantmaking foundation started by George Soros, aimed to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform...
's international publishing program, whose goal was to support publishing and education in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism. She established "The Centre for Publishing Development," which became part of the "Information Program" (whose staff are based in Budapest
Budapest
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, London
London
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, and New York
New York City
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), a later initiative of the Open Society Institute.
Later projects
From 2002 to 2006, she was CEOChief executive officer
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of International House Trust, which owns a London-based language school as well as a 50% share of International House World Organisation
International House World Organisation
International House World Organisation is a network of language schools worldwide. There are over 150 schools and teacher training centres in more than 50 countries ....
Ltd. She is a trustee of Redress
Redress (charitable organisation)
Redress, or The Redress Trust is a human rights organisation based in London, England that helps survivors of torture to obtain justice and reparation, in the form of compensation, rehabilitation, official acknowledgement of the wrong and formal apologies...
, a charity focussed on helping torture survivors.
She was also project leader of Publishing and Alternative Licensing Model of Africa (PALM Africa), a project based in Uganda and South Africa funded by the IDRC
International Development Research Centre
The International Development Research Centre is a Canadian Crown Corporation created by the Parliament of Canada that supports research in developing countries to promote growth and development...
. The goal of the project, according to Andrew Rens, in comment posted in a blog hosted by the Shuttleworth Foundation
Shuttleworth Foundation
South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth established the Shuttleworth Foundation in January 2001. There have been various iterations of the Foundation and how it invests in social innovation...
, is to study whether flexible licensing arrangements (such as Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
) are viable models for local publishers, and what business models emerge from this approach.
External links
- Frances Pinter – Official website (includes full CV).