⚖️ Rights & Licensing module

Know what you control.
Sell what's clear.

Rights live in contracts, and contracts live in drawers. Routine turns them into a catalogue you can ask questions of — which media, which territories, which languages, which window, exclusive or not — and every answer names the agreement it came from.

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What's inside

The whole chain, from contract to avails.

A rights record you can trust is built one agreement at a time. Routine keeps the structure, the paper and the answers together.

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Catalogue

Franchise, series, season, episode, film — and the elemental rights beneath them: trailers, scripts, music, artwork, formats. A title can wrap a production you made in Routine, or stand alone for something you acquired.

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Agreements

Acquisitions, productions and co-productions, licences out, options and amendments, each with its counterparty, dates, governing law and documents. Terms freeze once an agreement is approved; changes are amendments that supersede the original, so the audit trail is the record.

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Rights as atoms

Enter a bundle — "all television, Scandinavia, 2027 to 2029, exclusive" — and Routine breaks it into one row per medium, territory and language. Blocs expand through your own territory groups or are refused by name, never guessed.

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Avails engine

Ask what you can sell: green, amber, red, blue or grey per title, with the windows actually free and the clause behind every colour. The answer is computed in the database, once, and the app never recomputes it.

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Contract extraction

Attach the executed contract and Routine reads it: parties, dates, rights lines, fees and instalments, each with the quoted clause and page. Every quote is checked against the document; anything the model cannot point at is rated low. A person accepts or rejects every proposal — nothing lands on its own.

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Deals

A sales pipeline over the same engine: versioned offers and counters, holds that show blue to colleagues while you negotiate, and a one-click conversion into a licence that waits for an owner's approval. A deal memo PDF comes from the structured terms, never from a screenshot.

Avails search

"Can we sell Free TV and SVOD in Scandinavia from 2027?"

Pick the kinds of content, the territories, the media, the language and the window. Routine answers per title and lists every licence, holdback or missing acquisition that produced the colour — with a link to the agreement. Export the run as CSV; every export is kept so you can re-send it later.

Rights & Licensing · Avails · Free TV + SVOD · Scandinavia · 2027–2028
Routine avails search with territories, media and window selected, and results per title naming the agreements behind each answer
Available

You control it for the whole window and nothing in the way.

Partly available

Some of the window, some languages or some territories — the free windows are listed.

Reserved

A colleague is negotiating these rights; the hold expires on a date.

Unavailable

Licensed out, held back, or outside what you control.

Insufficient information

No approved rights-in, or a title still marked incomplete. Grey never pretends to be green.

Rights matrix

Territories down, media across, one title at a time.

Every title page carries its own grid. Set the window, the exclusivity and the language and the cells colour themselves from the engine. Click a cell and Routine explains it — which acquisition brought the right in, which licence took it out, and when it comes back.

Add territories in blocs. Scandinavia, Nordics, DACH, Benelux, Iberia and the rest are one click; they expand through your own territory groups.

Leaf media only. "Television" is never a right on its own — the grid shows Free TV, Pay TV, basic cable and satellite separately, the way contracts do.

Rights record status. Mark a title complete, partial or unknown. Until a person confirms the record, its answers stay grey.

Rights & Licensing · Catalogue · Northern Lights · Rights matrix
Routine rights matrix for a series showing territories against media with coloured availability cells and bloc shortcuts
Rights & Licensing · Agreement · Extract from the contract
Routine contract extraction review panel listing proposed agreement fields and parties, each with the quoted clause, page number, confidence and an accept decision
Contract extraction

The contract is the source. The model only points at it.

Attach the executed PDF and Routine reads it page by page. What comes back is a list of proposals — agreement fields, parties, rights lines, fees, instalments, obligations — each carrying the clause it was taken from and the page it sits on. The browser checks every quote against the document before you see it.

Verified quotes, or a low rating. A clause that isn't on the cited page is flagged and capped at low confidence. A scan with no text layer can't be checked, so nothing from it is rated above medium.

Rights lines go through the importer. The model's words — "all forms of television in the Nordic territories" — are resolved by the same rules as a pasted spreadsheet, and a bloc your organisation hasn't defined is refused by name.

A person decides every field. Accept, correct or reject; accept all high-confidence proposals at once. Proposals are never read by the avails engine and an approved agreement takes no extraction at all — amend it instead.

Agreements

One record per contract, frozen on approval.

Type, direction, counterparty, your contracting entity, effective and signature dates, expiry, governing law, documents and notes — then the terms as bundles, exploded into atoms underneath. Submit for review; an owner or admin approves. From then on the terms are immutable and money is the only thing that stays editable.

Financial terms and a payment schedule. Licence fees, minimum guarantees and revenue shares per currency, instalments with due dates, invoiced and paid flags. Every instalment is an obligation; an overdue one surfaces in Finance.

Obligations you can't forget. Renewal decisions and window ends are created for you on approval; deliveries, reports and approvals you add yourself. Due dates nudge the right people and turn into tasks.

Delivery spec on approval. On a licence out, name the delivery spec and Routine applies it to every catalogued version of the licensed titles the moment the agreement is approved — if you also run Distribution.

Rights & Licensing · Agreement · Licence out · Draft
Routine agreement page for a licence out showing type, reference, counterparty, dates, governing law, delivery spec and the terms as bundles
Dashboard

What's due, what's ending, what's missing.

Rights you control that are ending and licences you granted that are ending are shown separately, because one is a loss and the other is stock coming back to sell. Open obligations, agreements waiting for a decision, titles with an incomplete record — and a check against Distribution for release dates with no rights behind them.

Rights & Licensing · Dashboard
Routine rights dashboard with catalogue counts, obligations due next, a distribution check for release dates without rights, and rights ending in 30, 90 and 180 days
Two licences, one engine

Buy the record. Add the sales desk when you need it.

Most organisations need to know what they own long before they run a sales pipeline. Rights & Licensing is the record and the engine; Sales is the deals layer on top, priced as its own module and only available with the first.

Module

Rights & Licensing

Catalogue, parties, agreements, rights atoms, the avails engine and matrix, obligations, documents, contract extraction, spreadsheet import and recorded avails runs. Full seats only for anything that carries money.

Add-on module · requires Rights & Licensing

Rights & Licensing — Sales

The deals pipeline: enquiry to contracted, versioned offers and counters, holds that show blue across every avails answer, conversion into a licence-out agreement, and the deal memo PDF. Optionally linked to a CRM deal.

Routine supports contract administration; it does not provide legal advice. Verify against the executed agreement before relying on any result.

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