What is Rights Management?

**"Rights Management in Reprtoir refers to the structured organization of all legal and contractual information that governs the ownership, control, and exploitation of musical works.

It enables publishers, administrators, and their partners to maintain accurate data, streamline catalog transfers between them and with Collective Management Organizations (CMO/PRO/MRO), and establish a reliable foundation for catalog administration and reporting.

By structuring rights data in this way, Reprtoir is fully compliant with the Common Works Registration (CWR) standard, ensuring smooth and accurate data exchanges with CMOs/PROs/MROs and industry partners.

⚠ Do not confuse Rights Management and Royalty Splits

Rights Management and Royalties are complementary but cover two different dimensions:

Rights represents the chain of rights: the legal and contractual reality of who owns what, and under which conditions. This chain may include contributors that your company does not control.
Royalties represents the royalty splits: the financial allocation of revenues, defining who must be paid, for which revenues, and according to which rules. Only contributors that your company is contractually responsible for appear here.

In short: Rights = chain of rights (legal view) and Royalties = royalty splits (financial view).

	Chain of Rights	Royalty Splits
Purpose	Legal and contractual organization of works	Calculation and distribution of assets revenues
Perspective	Who owns what	Who gets paid and how
Content	All contributors, including those not controlled	Only beneficiaries your company must pay
Use	Legal and contractual foundation for publishing catalog administration	Operational and financial foundation for royalty statements