13. DCI Rights Management Summary
Greg Fioravanti
VP, Deal & Rights Management
Business & Legal Affairs
Discovery Communications
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14. Rights Management
Starting Point – 2005/ 06
• High demand from business for available content
– DCI Producing large volume of hours per year
– DCI considering many new business opportunities
• Difficulty accessing information
– System insufficient
– Lack of standardized data capture
– Elemental rights in binders
• Cost to DCI
– Rights reviews could take a long period of time
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15. Rights Management
Current State
• System Solution
– Partnered with RSG Media Systems to build Rights Logic
– Provides full program rights picture
– Push information out to business
• Rights Data Capture Automated
– Entered backlog of 10,000 documents over 2 year period
– Able to have new contracts input in 2 week timeframe
– Process optimized, minimal headcount
– Rights analysts only deal with higher level issues
• Result
– Real time, reliable rights reviews
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16. Rights Management
Future
• Integration
– Need to push rights data to client’s systems requiring alignment
of process and understanding of long term dependencies
– Metadata must be standardized across all businesses and
services
– Systems need to be adjusted to align to common structure
• Result
– Real time information available to end users in their system
– Administrative burden reduced
– Data integration allows business to maximize revenue
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18. Who Is Participating in PLUS?
• Creators: photographers, illustrators.
• Distributors: stock agencies
• Users: book publishers, newspaper
publishers, magazine publishers, web
publishers, motion picture/TV, ad
agencies, designers, the public
• Cultural Heritage:
Museums, libraries, researchers, education
al institutions
• Other: software
developers, attorneys, picture
researchers, artist