Rights Management Software
Rights Management Software
Rights management in a digital world
As digitisation accelerates, managing contracts and rights is becoming increasingly complex. Navigating platforms, formats, languages, and territories can feel overwhelming, costing you valuable time and money.
Schilling’s rights management solution helps you overcome these challenges, providing a complete overview of your contracts, acquired rights, and their utilisation across different channels.
And on a practical level, with Schilling’s software solution something as simple as outdated contract templates created in text programs will not continue to circulate within your organisation, causing problems with their outdated standard wording.
Always in control with Schilling's rights management software
Schilling’s all-in-one rights management software is designed to streamline processes, eliminate manual tasks, and save you valuable time. From acquisition to sales, the solution ensures compliance, clarity, and control at every stage of the process.
Key benefits and features:
- Effortless compliance: Stay aligned with contract terms, content requirements, and company standards.
- Automation at its best: Quickly create contracts with predefined templates and reduce errors.
- Streamlined processes: Digital signing (internal/external) and portal integration enhance efficiency.
- Customised reporting: Tailored status reports and notifications keep you informed and organised.
Rights management made easy with all-in-one software
- From initial negotiations to contract signing and utilisation.
- Automate contract creation with customised templates, ensuring compliance and saving time.
- Across formats, platforms, languages, territories, and time periods.
- Monitor key contract terms, including royalty splits, settlement frequencies, contributor details, and advances.
- Features that empower: Negotiations, co-production offers, auctions, and licensing agreements.
- Tagging rights by genres, territories, and languages for quick matching with prospects or customers.
Powerful features packed in one rights management software
All
Contract and rights
Collaboration and efficiency
Financial management
Security and compliance
Integration and configuration
Contract generation
Create draft contracts based on terms and send them for approval, streamlining the contract process.
Configurable associations
Easily link authors to contracts and establish relationships between contracts and guarantees for better tracking.
Conflict and collision checks
Identify overlapping rights, restrictions, and conflicts, ensuring clear audit trails and compliance.
Date alerts
Receive automatic notifications about contract expiry, milestones, and key status changes to stay informed.
Easily buy and sell rights
Facilitate the buying and selling of rights with streamlined processes.
Control multiple book deals and global advances
Manage multiple book deals and global advances efficiently.
Monitor utilizations and secondary rights
Seamlessly control your own utilizations, secondary rights, co-productions, amendments, and options.
Generate customised, high-quality acquisition contracts automatically
Automatically generate high-quality acquisition contracts tailored to specific needs.
Sign contracts digitally
Enable digital signing of contracts for faster and more secure processing.
Contact management
Maintain and organise contact details, linking relevant parties to specific contracts.
Bulk edit capabilities
Make changes to multiple records in one go, saving time when updating contracts or rights.
Advanced searching
Use search filters and find specific contracts, rights, and catalogue data with user-defined search criteria.
Customisable views
Arrange and personalise data grids and list pages to focus on the most relevant information.
Portal
Allow partners to access specific financial reports and documents, ensuring smooth communication and transparency.
Allocate and monitor
Allocate resources effectively and monitor the contract signing process with detailed response codes and status reports.
Manage the process, marketing, and follow-up
Monitor the entire process, including marketing and follow-up activities, to ensure smooth operations.
Accounting processes
Automate financial processes such as invoicing, revenue recognition, and cash allocation, ensuring accurate reporting.
Revenue and cost allocation
Define payment schedules and distributions based on licensing terms, media, territories, and due dates.
Administer royalties and licences
Efficiently manage royalties and licences to ensure accurate and timely payments.
Handle settlements, payments, and invoicing efficiently
Streamline the handling of settlements, payments, and invoicing for better financial management.
Access management with Single sign-on (SSO)
Strengthen security by integrating with authentication providers for seamless access (compatible with OKTA).
Audit history
Track all data changes, statuses, and updates across records, ensuring a complete history of modifications.
Navigate audit history
Easily review and analyse changes to system data over time.
Receive and send warnings and notifications automatically
Automatically receive and send warnings and notifications to stay informed about critical updates and changes.
API and OOB integration
Connect external systems and applications to enable smooth data exchange and automation.
Configuration comparison
Compare system configurations across environments to ensure consistency in templates and workflows.
Fully configurable record templates
Create data templates to ensure that key information is displayed consistently.
Contract generation
Create draft contracts based on terms and send them for approval, streamlining the contract process.
Configurable associations
Easily link authors to contracts and establish relationships between contracts and guarantees for better tracking.
Conflict and collision checks
Identify overlapping rights, restrictions, and conflicts, ensuring clear audit trails and compliance.
Date alerts
Receive automatic notifications about contract expiry, milestones, and key status changes to stay informed.
Easily buy and sell rights
Facilitate the buying and selling of rights with streamlined processes.
Control multiple book deals and global advances
Manage multiple book deals and global advances efficiently.
Monitor utilizations and secondary rights
Seamlessly control your own utilizations, secondary rights, co-productions, amendments, and options.
Generate customised, high-quality acquisition contracts automatically
Automatically generate high-quality acquisition contracts tailored to specific needs.
Sign contracts digitally
Enable digital signing of contracts for faster and more secure processing.
Contact management
Maintain and organise contact details, linking relevant parties to specific contracts.
Bulk edit capabilities
Make changes to multiple records in one go, saving time when updating contracts or rights.
Advanced searching
Use search filters and find specific contracts, rights, and catalogue data with user-defined search criteria.
Customisable views
Arrange and personalise data grids and list pages to focus on the most relevant information.
Portal
Allow partners to access specific financial reports and documents, ensuring smooth communication and transparency.
Allocate and monitor
Allocate resources effectively and monitor the contract signing process with detailed response codes and status reports.
Manage the process, marketing, and follow-up
Monitor the entire process, including marketing and follow-up activities, to ensure smooth operations.
Accounting processes
Automate financial processes such as invoicing, revenue recognition, and cash allocation, ensuring accurate reporting.
Revenue and cost allocation
Define payment schedules and distributions based on licensing terms, media, territories, and due dates.
Administer royalties and licences
Efficiently manage royalties and licences to ensure accurate and timely payments.
Handle settlements, payments, and invoicing efficiently
Streamline the handling of settlements, payments, and invoicing for better financial management.
Access management with Single sign-on (SSO)
Strengthen security by integrating with authentication providers for seamless access (compatible with OKTA).
Audit history
Track all data changes, statuses, and updates across records, ensuring a complete history of modifications.
Navigate audit history
Easily review and analyse changes to system data over time.
Receive and send warnings and notifications automatically
Automatically receive and send warnings and notifications to stay informed about critical updates and changes.
API and OOB integration
Connect external systems and applications to enable smooth data exchange and automation.
Configuration comparison
Compare system configurations across environments to ensure consistency in templates and workflows.
Fully configurable record templates
Create data templates to ensure that key information is displayed consistently.
Select your preferred language for your Schilling rights management solution
Powerful features include:
- Automatic contract generation using the correct templates.
- Digital signing and portal integration for faster approvals.
- Comprehensive royalty and licensing administration.
- Notifications and alerts to keep you on track.
- Seamless handling of payments, settlements, and invoicing.
Always in control with Schilling's rights management software
Schilling’s all-in-one rights management software is designed to streamline processes, eliminate manual tasks, and save you valuable time. From acquisition to sales, the solution ensures compliance, clarity, and control at every stage of the process.
Discover the ease of Schilling's rights management software
Stop wasting time on manual processes and take full control of your publishing rights. With Schilling’s rights management software, you will save time, reduce errors, and unlock new revenue opportunities.
Start making the complex simple – book a demo today and transform your rights management journey.
What our customers say
Flexibility and specialised knowledge key
Norstedts, Sweden’s second-largest publishing group, sees its Schilling publishing software not as an expense, but as an investment that pays back through smoother, more efficient processes. Schilling employees’ vast publishing expertise is one reason why.
We estimate that the project as a whole has given an increase in efficiency of 30%, and our guess is that the Schilling system accounts for half of the impact.
FAQ – Rights management
Rights management in publishing is the process of tracking, controlling, and enforcing intellectual property rights for published content across formats, languages, and regions. It helps publishers handle originators' rights, define guarantees and one-off payments, and ensure that contracts include the correct coverage. Modern rights management tools also support specific contract terms for each format and sales channel and often include features like online signing in order to save both time and money.
Rights management software organises and tracks all rights-related data, including licensing, royalties, and compliance – all in one place. This ensures accurate control of content use, while automatic notifications and reminders keep workflows smooth and efficient.
Rights management software helps you comply with international copyrights by automating compliance checks for international copyright laws, which ensures that your content meets regulatory standards worldwide. This minimises the risk of using rights without proper authorisation and helps align with regulatory standards worldwide.
Rights management can be complex but with the right software the process becomes much easier. Consolidating rights-related information and automating key tasks makes it easier to get a comprehensive overview, manage agreements, and handle status updates, while saving the contract in a document filing tool upon signing. User-friendly interfaces and notifications can further simplify the work.
Rights management software can help you create royalty agreements because it includes the coverage and terms that are copied to the royalty agreements when products are published, providing your staff and the royalty recipients with seamless and transparent insights. Templates and automated workflows simplify the process of creating, managing, and tracking royalty agreements.
To give you an overview of your publishing rights, rights management software offers dashboards and search tools that give you a real-time overview of all the rights and licences that you hold. Filters and sorting criteria allow you to focus on specific agreements, whether they are drafts, signed, or active, or expired.
Rights management software handles multiple types of publishing rights. It is designed to manage rights across all formats, including digital, print, translation, audio, etc. It allows you to define formats and sales channels for particular titles, often using templates for consistency and efficiency.
Rights management software is important for publishers because it saves them an immense amount of time. It also helps maximise revenue by controlling usage rights, reducing compliance risks, and ensuring accurate royalty distribution.
To select the right software for rights management, you should look for features that best match your needs, such as format coverage, compliance tools, and user-friendly dashboards, along with vendor support and scalability. You should get a demonstration of the software including the possibility to ask questions. Make sure that you involve an employee or another person who knows your contracts, terms, and the signing process well.
Rights management can be automated with rights management software that streamlines workflows such as contract generation, royalty calculation, and compliance checks. Templates and automated notifications ensure efficient handling of agreements, while saving time and reducing errors.
The best rights management software meets your specific publishing needs, offering scalability, ease of use, and reliable customer support.
There are many reasons why you should use rights management software. It provides control, compliance, and revenue tracking, which is essential for managing intellectual property in today's diverse publishing landscape. A rights management system ensures that you handle your rights correctly and that you do not inadvertently publish rights you do not have in your portfolio. It ensures that you have an overview of the rights that you can utilise. An automated rights management system generates new agreements and contracts smoothly and saves you time and money. It also ensures that paid advances are automatically deducted from all the correct publication formats.
A rights management system is a tool that centralises and automates the management of publishing rights and intellectual property, including the signing process, logging of any adjustments to the original agreement, and automatically storing the signed contract in a Document Management tool.
