Rights Management Bottleneck an Inventory Challenge for Movie Studios

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5 March 2008

Mike McGuire

A future in which the long trail of film and TV content is easily accessible to online consumers is in doubt because of the challenge of clearing and administering distribution rights.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

1.0

Introduction

1.1

The Survey

2.0

The Challenge of Rights-In/Rights-Out Management: Contracts

3.0

Digital and New Definitions

4.0

Complexity: Analog to Digital Transition

5.0

Financing Models Lead to Complexity

6.0

Automating and Digitizing the Rights-In/Rights-Out Processes

7.0

Need for a Chief Rights Officer or Single Executives

8.0

Transparency and Financial Operations

9.0

Collaboration on Industry Standards

10.0

Where Are the Vendors?

11.0

Prediction

12.0

Recommendations

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Movie Distribution Revenue Forecast by Channel

Digital Rights Management
Digital Media Distribution
Media Marketplace

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