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Function documentationCalculation of Transmissions in the Rights Availability Analysis

 

You use this function to determine the availability of numbered transmissions during the rights availability analysis.

Integration

In the Intellectual Property (IP), the transmissions are contained in the Rights Owned (Granting Ref.), which can be generated by evaluating the acquisition contracts.

Note that release restrictions and release dates do not contain any numbered transmissions. This means that you can only restrict or release all transmissions, and not the individual transmissions.

Prerequisites

  • You have entered the transmissions in the license acquisition contract.

  • You have set up the IP for the Rights Owned (Granting Ref.) by applying the relevant generation formula. You have configured this generation formula with one generation step with the operation Contract Reference for each relevant transaction type.

  • You have generated the rights in the IP to copy the transmissions from the acquisition contract to the Rights Owned (Granting Ref.) of the IP.

Features

Exclusivity and Transmissions

The system considers the exclusivity of the rights when it calculates the availability of a transmission, since exclusivity is related to the right rather than to an individual transmission. If a right is sold or consumed with a license sales contract item exclusively for a period in time, all transmissions within the period are unavailable throughout the period.

Example Example

You acquire the exclusive rights to an IP with six transmissions for one year, and sell five of the transmissions exclusively for the first half of the year. You can now only sell the remaining run exclusively in the second half of the year. The remaining transmission is not available for sale in the first half of the year because of the exclusive sales of the other transmissions.

End of the example.

Example Example

You acquire the exclusive rights to an IP with six runs for one year, and sell five of the runs nonexclusively in the first half of the year. You can now sell the remaining run nonexclusively in the first half of the year, or exclusively in the second half of the year. The remaining transmission is not available for sale exclusively in the first half of the year because of the nonexclusive sales.

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Aggregated Rights Availability Status for IP Relationships

The rights availability analysis provides detailed information about the availability of underlying components (with or without granting reference) or parts. If there is a conflict at the subordinate level, this is shown by the Sub IP Conflict indicator. The number of available transmissions can never exceed the minimum number of transmissions available at subordinate level.

Example Example

Broadcasting companies need to model the rights situation of broadcast items with a complex hierarchy of IPs. For example, a magazine, which is defined as an IP itself, can have several underlying components. These can include author rights and different parts, such as broadcast subitems that may consist of a list of sequences also represented by an IP. All the IPs can have different rights situations resulting from the assigned license acquisition contracts including a limited number of transmissions.

When the availability check for a broadcast item fails, the program planner needs to know why the desired IP is unavailable. For example, if an underlying right or a part has insufficient rights, this could be solved by acquiring the missing rights to that IP. This needs to be checked dynamically. It is not sufficient to consider the rights of underlying components in advance when the system generates the rights owned for the IP taking account of the broadcast item. Instead, the system checks the IP required and creates an aggregated availability status across the hierarchy of related IPs during the rights availability analysis.

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Activities

Consuming Transmissions

The system considers the transmissions that have already been consumed for a certain right when it calculates the availability of transmissions for a right, so that consumed transmissions do not appear in the rights availability analysis.

You can consume a transmission in one of two ways:

  • You can sell the transmission in a license sales contract.

  • The validity period for the transmission expires.

A transmission in the Rights Owned (Granting Ref.) can belong to a hierarchy node containing subnodes. If so, the system removes the transmission from the following when the transmission is consumed:

  • The node specified

  • The subnodes of the node specified

  • The superordinate nodes of the node specified

Example Example

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Example Example

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If a transmission for a right is consumed with a sales contract item for a period in time, the number of available transmissions in the period covered with the Rights Owned (Granting Ref.) is reduced by one for the right. The exclusivity of the right has no impact on this.

More Information

Rights Availability Analysis