Rights & deals

What it is

Big-artist catalogs are carved up: one publisher has publishing worldwide except Japan, one label has the master for North America, a distributor covers Asia, a sync agency handles film & TV. Rights & deals is the registry for exactly that, at two levels that read together:

• an album deal covers the whole album (the standard "we signed the EP to label X for Europe" case)
• a track deal covers one track. Standalone, or a carve-out from its album's deal ("the album is with label X, but this single's publishing is carved out to publisher Y for Japan")

A track or album can carry any number of deals, each with:

• a deal type: publishing, master/recording, distribution, licensing, sync, management, or other
• a counterpart: an organisation on Aden, or just a name (Sony Music Publishing…) if they're not
• the signed territories: worldwide, only selected regions/countries, or worldwide except some (regions like North America, Europe, DACH, Japan, or individual countries)
• exclusivity, the counterpart's share %, an optional advance, the signed date and the term (start → end, or open-ended)

Using it

1. Open your organisation → Deals → Rights & deals.
2. Click New deal, pick the track, deal type and counterpart, choose the territory mode and add regions/countries, set share, dates and exclusivity.
3. The overview groups by album: an album with deals shows its album-level deals first, and any member track with its own deals nests underneath as a "Track carve-out": the whole rights picture of a release in one block. Tracks outside a dealed album get their own groups. Each row reads: type · counterpart · territories · share · term · status.
4. Territory conflicts are flagged automatically. Across levels too: two active exclusive deals of the same type overlapping in at least one country get a red "Territory conflict" badge, including an album deal clashing with a member track's deal. You're warned, never blocked. Real catalogs legitimately carry overlapping co-deals and intentional carve-outs.
5. Terminate, reactivate, edit or delete deals from each row's menu.

Access is scope-gated: you see and manage deals only for artist teams that granted your organisation the collaborators scope (the contracts/splits scope).