- What is Visible Rights?
- Visible Rights is a rights intelligence platform for owners of media archives — venues, festivals, estates, broadcasters, production companies, and anyone who has accumulated recordings and contracts without a rights department. We digitize and analyze your agreements, reconstruct what rights you actually hold, and show you how your library can be monetized.
- How does it work?
- You upload (or send us) your archive: contracts, amendments, releases, correspondence, tape logs, and spreadsheets. The system converts and reads each document, extracts the parties, rights grants, restrictions, obligations, and dates, and stages every conclusion with a citation back to the exact page and clause it came from. A human reviewer confirms or rejects each extracted fact before it becomes part of your rights record. The analysis engine then derives, for every asset and licensing channel, whether the use is cleared, restricted, ambiguous, or missing evidence — and surfaces monetization opportunities and the blockers standing in the way.
- Is the AI's output treated as the truth?
- No. AI extraction is a starting point, never the record. Every extracted fact carries a confidence score and quoted evidence, and enters the authoritative rights database only after human review. Derived conclusions (rights positions, opportunities) always explain themselves: you can trace any conclusion back to the agreement, page, and clause that supports it.
- What does 'rights archaeology' mean?
- Old archives are messy: handwritten annotations, missing exhibits, renamed companies, agreements that predate streaming. The system is built for that reality — it tracks documents that are referenced but missing from your archive, flags pre-digital 'all media' language as likely-but-ambiguous rather than certain, detects possible rights reversions, and reconciles the different names a performer or company used over the decades.
- What can I do with the results?
- Search and filter your rights database; compare agreements side by side; review a ranked list of monetization opportunities (streaming, clip licensing, compilations, documentaries, and more) with the evidence behind each; see which blockers — a missing release, an expired term, a required approval — hold back the most value; bundle content and evaluate how any group of assets can be licensed; and generate a library rights audit report.
- Is my data private?
- Yes. Your library — documents, contracts, extracted rights, analysis — is private to your organization, enforced at the database layer. Nothing appears on the public site unless you explicitly publish it, and published pages carry only the fields you approve. Rights detail, contracts, and analysis never appear publicly.
- Do I have to replace my existing rights system?
- No. Visible Rights works upstream of systems like Rightsline or FilmTrack: we ingest and analyze the legacy archive those systems never captured, and validated rights data can be exported to your existing system of record. If you don't have one, Visible Rights can serve as it.
- Is this legal advice?
- No. Visible Rights provides research and analysis tools with evidence and confidence indicators. Conclusions marked 'requires legal review' — and any decision to exploit content — should be reviewed with qualified counsel.