# Rights & deals
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/release/rights-deals

Multiple simultaneous deals per track OR per album, publishing, master, distribution, licensing, sync, each scoped to the regions it was signed for, with album deals showing their track carve-outs, and territory-conflict flagging across both levels.
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## What it is [#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 [#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).