| name | manage-media-rights-and-clearances |
| category | write |
| description | Manage media rights and clearances through source, owner, permitted use, restrictions, evidence, expiry, and replacement. Use when a production contains third-party or participant-controlled material. |
manage-media-rights-and-clearances
Make every published element traceable to authority for the actual territory, channel, duration, and edit.
Procedure
- Inventory footage, images, music, recordings, text, brands, locations, performances, and likenesses.
- Record source, creator, claimant, file identifier, first use, and production owner.
- Determine copyright, license, release, contract, public-domain, or exception basis with qualified review.
- Specify channels, territories, duration, versions, edits, promotion, archive, and sublicensing.
- Track fees, credits, notices, cue sheets, restrictions, expiry, and renewal.
- Link executed evidence to the exact asset and final use.
- Flag unresolved, disputed, restricted, generative, or replaceable material.
- Review the locked master against the register before delivery.
- Archive evidence and schedule expiry or takedown actions.
Guardrails
- This workflow does not substitute for qualified legal advice.
- Possession, online availability, or attribution alone does not prove permission.
- Never broaden a license beyond its written scope.
Done
- A rights and clearance register lists every relevant asset and use
- Executed evidence, credits, restrictions, territory, channel, and expiry are verified
- The locked master reconciles with cleared assets and unresolved items
