What are Rights?

Rights (also known as Copyrights) refers to the structured organization of all legal and contractual information that governs the ownership, control, collection, and exploitation of musical works.

It enables publishers, administrators, and their partners to:

• Maintain accurate and reliable data.
• Streamline catalog transfers between stakeholders and with Collective Management Organizations (CMO/PRO/MRO).
• Establish a solid foundation for catalog administration and reporting.

By structuring rights data in this way, Reprtoir is fully CWR compliant, ensuring smooth and accurate data exchanges with CMOs, PROs, MROs, and industry partners.

⚠️ Do not confuse Right Shares and Royalty Splits

In Reprtoir, Right Shares and Royalty Splits describe two different but complementary realities:

• Right Shares (the chain of rights) express the legal and contractual ownership of a work: who owns which share, under what mandate, and whether the contributor is controlled or not. Right Shares are always tied to Contributors.
• Royalty Splits express the financial allocation of income: who gets paid, from which revenue streams, and under which contractual rules. Only the parties your company must actually remunerate appear here. Royalty Splits are tied to Contacts and Companies through Contracts.

Confusing the two leads to serious errors — works could be mis-registered with societies, and royalty statements could become inaccurate. Treat them as distinct layers: one for rights ownership, the other for money flow.

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