A catalogue of rights is only as good as your ability to track them.
Rights window tracking at catalogue scale
A catalogue of hundreds of titles has rights agreements expiring at different dates across territories. Manual tracking in spreadsheets misses windows — and missed windows mean lost licensing revenue.
Residual and royalty clause extraction
Calculating royalty obligations requires extracting complex tiered rate structures from deal memos and distribution agreements — work that takes lawyers hours and still produces errors.
Counterparty obligation monitoring
Talent agreements include delivery obligations, approval rights, and exclusivity periods that trigger future payments or penalties. None of these surface unless someone reads every page.
Every right extracted. Every window tracked.
Cogneris reads content licensing agreements, distribution deals, and talent contracts — returning rights windows, royalty schedules, and obligation dates as structured data that feeds directly into your rights management system.
- Rights window extraction — effective dates, territory scopes, media channels, and expiry dates extracted from every agreement into a unified rights record.
- Royalty schedule parsing — tiered rate structures extracted as nested JSON: rates, thresholds, territories, and collection periods — ready for royalty calculation engines.
- Expiry alert integration — extracted dates push to calendar integrations and alerting systems so windows are never missed and renewals are proactively managed.
- Obligation and penalty tagging — counterparty obligations, approval triggers, and penalty clauses tagged and indexed so your team can search and monitor across the full catalogue.
Rights buried in contracts, surfaced instantly.
Media and entertainment companies run on contracts. Licensing deals, talent agreements, distribution rights, royalty schedules, exclusivity clauses — all buried in 30-200 page agreements. Missed window dates and unclaimed royalties cost media companies millions per year. Cogneris's media configuration extracts every revenue-relevant clause from your contract corpus, surfacing the rights you can monetize and the obligations you need to track.
Rights extraction
Territory, term, exclusivity, media windows (theatrical, SVOD, AVOD, FAST, broadcast), language rights — extracted as structured rights records ready for catalog operations.
Royalty schedule parsing
Royalty rates, recoupment thresholds, escalation triggers, accounting periods — normalized across deal templates so finance teams aren't re-reading every contract every quarter.
Talent contract clauses
Holds, options, exclusivity, kill fees, marketing-services obligations, residuals — surfaced into your talent-management system with deadline-aware alerts.
Catalog migration
Backfill an existing catalog of 10,000+ legacy contracts in days, not quarters. Confidence scores per field, exception queue for unusual deal structures.
Plugs into the broadcast & streaming stack.
Cogneris integrates with the rights-management, royalty-accounting, and catalog systems major studios, networks, and streaming platforms run.
- Rights management systems — Whip Media, Vistex, FilmTrack, Rightsline — extracted rights records populate the RMS with full contract provenance.
- Royalty accounting — Counterpoint Suite, FilmHedge, Mensch Media — royalty schedules feed quarterly statements and recoupment tracking automatically.
- Catalog systems — Internal catalog DBs via REST integration; pre-built connectors for major MAM (media asset management) systems.
- DRM & entitlement — Window-aware DRM unlock — extracted territory and term feeds entitlement systems so content goes live exactly when the contract says it should.
- Talent management — CAA, WME, UTA — talent-side contract data sync (with permission) so client teams don't re-key obligations.
The document types behind talent contracts, royalty statements, and IP audits.
Media operations run on a constant flow of talent agreements, royalty statements, and production-vendor invoices. Cogneris extracts each into structured records that feed your rights-management and finance systems.
For category context, see the IDP buyer's guide, the 2026 State of Document AI report, or estimate ROI at your volume.
- Contract extraction — talent agreements, distribution contracts, and licensing deals with parties, term, royalty splits, exclusivity, and named-clause extraction.
- Invoice extraction — production vendor invoices with line items, episode/show codes, and GL hints for film-and-TV cost accounting and tax-credit workflows.
- Receipt extraction — production receipts and per-diem documentation with line items, tax breakdown, and routing for the right show/episode budget code.
Common questions.
How accurate is rights extraction on dense contracts?
Can Cogneris handle talent agreements with side letters?
What about contracts in other languages?
Can we backfill our entire catalog?
How does Cogneris handle royalty calculation?
Every agreement searchable. Every right tracked.
See Cogneris extract a live distribution agreement — rights windows, royalty schedule, and expiry alerts all structured in under 8 seconds.