August 31, 2026 – Toronto — At IBC 2026, Rightsline will demonstrate how enterprise media and entertainment companies are accelerating rights-based operations with AI-powered automation, self-service data access, and governed workflows. From AI-driven contract analysis to real-time royalty reconciliation, Rightsline’s latest innovations are helping the world’s leading broadcasters, streamers, studios, and production companies move faster, reduce manual effort, and unlock new revenue opportunities across their IP portfolios.
Exhibiting in the Future Tech Hall 14 Booth 14.A45 & 14.C67, Rightsline is showcasing major product releases that transform how media organizations manage contracts, approvals, royalties, and reporting—all built on enterprise-grade infrastructure designed to scale globally.
“The future of media operations is powered by AI and governed data access,” said Patrick Arkeveld, CEO of Rightsline. “Our customers are managing some of the world’s most complex IP operations. We’re building the platform that lets them compete at scale, maintain compliance, and make smarter decisions faster.”
AI that understands contracts & rights
Rightsline’s new AI capabilities—transform how organizations interact with complex contracts and rights data. This solves fundamental pain points that slow decision-making across legal, finance, and licensing teams:
AI Contract Analysis transforms how teams interact with complex legal agreements. Instead of searching through dense PDFs, users can ask natural-language questions—“What are the revenue-sharing terms?” or “Which territories are restricted?”—and get instant, contextual answers. This accelerates contract reviews, reduces errors, and helps legal and business teams move at the speed of deal-making.
Intelligent Rights Explorer empowers sales and licensing teams to discover available inventory instantly. Sales teams can ask: “Which titles have SVOD rights available in Europe?” or “What inventory expires in the next 90 days?” Without needing a data analyst, teams uncover white space, accelerate deals, and capitalize on revenue opportunities faster.
AI Contract Ingest eliminates the data-entry bottleneck entirely. What once took days of manual setup—transforming dense legal agreements into structured data—now takes hours. The system automatically recognizes contract terms, territories, payment schedules, and more, reducing setup time by up to 95% and improving data accuracy from day one.
Modern data infrastructure: built for scale
Recognizing that AI is only as powerful as the data behind it, Rightsline deepened its integration with Snowflake to deliver a new class of data access:
Rightsline Data Share provides media organizations secure, real-time access to rights and royalties data directly within their own Snowflake environment. Instead of exporting reports and relying on manual pipelines, teams can now query live Rightsline data alongside their internal BI, planning, and forecasting tools. Role-based access controls, encryption, and audit logging ensure enterprise-grade governance—all without the complexity of custom integrations.
Self-Service Reporting That Moves Decision-Making
Reporting, powered by Sigma, gives every team the clarity they need—when they need it. Business Affairs, Finance, Legal, and Licensing teams can now:
- Build reports in minutes with drag-and-drop simplicity, no SQL required
- Ask questions in plain English and let AI generate the analysis automatically
- Access live data for real-time decision-making across territories, titles, and deal performance
- Export to dashboards, email, or cloud storage so insights flow directly to stakeholders
Use cases span from tracking available inventory to catching royalty variances before payments go out—all without toggling between tools or waiting for IT.
Automating the approval workflow
Product Approvals streamlines how brand licensors manage partner submissions, from initial intake to final approval. Built for companies managing complex brand licensing portfolios, the solution delivers:
- Image annotations and collaborative feedback that creates an audit trail
- Configurable workflows that trigger inventory creation automatically at approval
- One unified system that anchors approvals directly to contracts and royalty rules
Companies managing high-volume seasonal launches or multi-department approvals see approval cycles cut from days to hours.
Intelligent statement processing at scale
Statement Ingest replaces the manual chaos of email-based royalty reporting with a modern partner portal. Licensees upload sales statements, the system validates data in real-time, catches errors before they enter the system, and delivers clean data ready for royalty calculations. For licensors managing hundreds of global partners, this eliminates weeks of manual formatting and back-and-forth corrections.
Finance automation
Advanced Financials automates the full finance workflow—from invoicing and allocations to multi-currency FX conversions and payment tracking—eliminating manual spreadsheet work and reducing errors. With support for tax management and window-level financials, teams can now handle complex global licensing agreements and generate audit-ready reporting without leaving the platform. This transforms finance from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage for scaling media operations.
RIGHTSLINE PANEL SPOTLIGHT
What’s your IP Worth? Monetizing the Content Hierarchy
Friday, 11 September
10:45 – 11:15
AI & Future Tech Hall
Join Rightsline’s Jeremy Howell, VP of Strategic Accounts and David Kimple, Sr. Customer Success Manager for this in-depth conversation to explore the complexity facing our industry experts as they navigate optimal monetization across the IP Content Hierarchy.
What's ahead
These releases represent Rightsline’s commitment to moving the industry forward: from systems of record to systems of intelligence. With AI handling interpretation and ingestion, modern data infrastructure enabling access, and automation removing manual bottlenecks, media companies can focus on strategy and maximizing revenue, not spreadsheets and email chains.
Visit www.rightsline.com/ibc-2026 for booth details, demo scheduling, and additional resources.
