Looking for the best way to manage complex royalty accounting, partner reporting and rights licensing in one place? Rightsline is an enterprise, industry-leading unified platform built to simplify the entire IP lifecycle—from granular rights and contract management to automating royalty and accrual accounting, partner reporting and integration with your ERP system. Whether you’re deep in a royalty audit or just wondering what rights availability reporting is—we’ve got you. Here’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Rightsline, rights and royalties software.

About Rights & Royalties Management

It’s the brain of our customers’ IP operations. Rights and royalties software helps you manage contracts, licensing, payments, and rights reporting for everything you make, license, or distribute—books, shows, music, products, patents, you name it. Rights and royalties software helps companies track, manage, and monetize their intellectual property. Unlike some legacy providers that only do rights or royalties, Rightsline does both—intelligently, and at scale.

A unified platform like Rightsline handles both sides of the equation:

  • Rights: rights in & out capture, restrictions & clearances, deal workflows, rights conflicts, availability reporting, alerts, contract generation, e-signature integration
  • Royalties: complex revenue allocations (e.g. bundles), advance recoupment, participant shares, tax & currency calculation, invoicing, flexible statement reporting, GL/AP/AR reporting, forecasting

You can absolutely start with just rights or royalties—Rightsline is modular by design. Some customers come to us for rights and availability reporting, others start with royalty accounting and partner reporting. But here’s the magic: once you’re ready, everything connects seamlessly. No data silos. No replatforming. One system, built to grow with you. Start where you need to—and scale when you’re ready.

We’re built for companies and teams managing large-scale intellectual property portfolios—across publishing, media, consumer products, entertainment, tech, life sciences, franchising and more.

Rightsline is ideal for you if:

  • You license products, content or IP at scale
  • You manage complex contracts, contributors, or deal structures
  • You’re paying or receiving royalties across multiple territories
  • Your legal, finance, and licensing teams are tired of spreadsheets
  • You’ve outgrown your homegrown or legacy system

Rightsline isn’t a royalty recovery service, a copyright enforcement bot, or a platform for individuals tracking down missing publishing or songwriter checks. If you’re a musician looking for a missing royalty payment or trying to find out if someone used your beat on YouTube—we’re not the right fit.

We also don’t:

  • Flag or remove copyrighted content from YouTube or TikTok
  • Help indie authors find publishers
  • Tell you who owns a specific song
  • Manage your personal royalties as a solo artist

Not exactly—but we get why you’re asking. Digital Rights Management (DRM) typically refers to technologies that prevent unauthorized use of digital content—like encryption, watermarking, or access control for streaming or downloads. Rightsline isn’t DRM software—we’re Rights & Royalties Management software. We don’t secure files—we manage the business rights behind them:

  • Who can sell, stream, publish, or license content
  • Where and when it can be used
  • How royalties are calculated, tracked, and paid

If you’re managing contracts, contributors, territories, usage rights, and royalty payouts—that’s where we come in.

Who Uses Rightsline

300+ global companies trust Rightsline to replace legacy systems, eliminate spreadsheets, and finally connect every piece of the rights and royalties puzzle. Our platform powers the IP operations of leaders across every major content and licensing vertical:

  • 🎬 Media & Entertainment: Disney, Netflix, Amazon MGM Studios, BBC Studios
  • 📚 Publishing: Scholastic, Harvard Business Publishing, Cambridge University Press
  • 🛍️ Consumer Brands: Mattel, Hasbro, Hallmark, Centric Brands, Fanatics, UFC, major sports leagues, and more
  • 🎮 Gaming: Bandai Namco, Blizzard, EA, Games Global, Take Two Interactive
  • 💊 Life Sciences: Cell Signaling Technology, Gilead Sciences, Merck, and more
  • 💻 High Tech: Adobe, Infor, Microsoft, Monotype, Synopsys

From studios to science labs, toy makers to textbook publishers, Rightsline helps teams manage complex rights and royalty workflows with confidence and clarity.

What Makes Rightsline Different

Rightsline is a unified rights and royalties platform—built cloud-native, not retrofitted or stitched together from siloed tools. We replace the limitations of legacy vendors with:

  • Real-time availability + conflict management (ACE)
  • Highly-flexible royalty and financial calculation engine
  • Robust internal and external partner reporting capabilities
  • Shared data across legal, finance, sales, and operations
  • Configurable workflows—no developer bottlenecks
  • One source of truth, APIs and robust integration options

Rightsline gives you everything legacy tools wish they’d been built to do:

  • 20+ years of cross‑industry know‑how in a single team
  • One unified, real‑time platform for rights and royalties—no bolt‑ons, no data silos .
  • Proven at enterprise scale: billions in revenue, millions of transactions, thousands of users .
  • Global  support: an experienced customer team helping you future-proof your option
  • 300+ global brands already made the switch—Disney, Netflix, BBC Studios, Scholastic, Mattel, and more .

In short: Rightsline replaces manual and disparate processes with a powerful solution built for today’s IP commerce.

Spreadsheets weren’t built for rights and royalties—they just ended up there. Rightsline replaces the chaos with:

  •  Real-time, rules-based royalty calculations (no buried formulas)
  • Shared visibility across legal, finance, and sales
  • Configurable logic—no IT required
  • Built-in integrations (ERP, Snowflake, DocuSign and more)
  • Dashboards and tailored reporting 
  • Enterprise scale + serious security

Spreadsheets can’t scale, automate, or protect your IP. Rightsline can.

Legacy systems often treat reporting as an afterthought where Rightsline makes reporting part of the platform, not a workaround. You get:

  • Real-time dashboards and data views
  • Self-service reporting portal (no SQL required)
  • Flexible reporting options for partners, GL/AP/AR, availability reporting.
  • Custom report logic based on your business rules
  • Integration-ready outputs for BI tools

No more stitching together spreadsheets or chasing down stale data—just clear, trustworthy insights when you need them.

Rightsline uses AI where it matters most—enhancing rights and royalties workflows, not just adding buzzwords. Our AI is customer-tested, human-centered, and built on decades of IP expertise. No shortcuts. Just smart, real-world automation that actually helps:

  • Extract complex deal terms
  • Compare contracts and flag differences
  • Ask natural-language questions about your data
  • Improve avails, validation, and approvals
  • Validate royalties automatically
Learn More About Rightsline AI

Pricing, Implementation, and Support

Rightsline offers flexible pricing based on the rights and or royalties modules you need, the complexity of your deal structures, and the scale of your business. Whether you’re migrating from a legacy system or modernizing from spreadsheets, we tailor solutions that fit your team.

Talk to Our Team for Custom Quote

Projects vary and are dependent on a number of factors including complexity of calculation rules, data migration, as well as integrations with downstream systems.  Through a project, our skilled Professional Services teams adapt to your needs—guiding you every step of the way.

We provide a world-class Customer Success team, dedicated account management, implementation specialists, and optional managed services for contract ingestion, reporting, and royalty processing.

Whether you’re running a lean team or need hands-on help, we scale with you.

Technical Details & Integration

Absolutely. We have enterprise-grade security with SOC 2 Type I & II compliance, role-based access controls, audit trails, and secure cloud infrastructure.

Yes. Rightsline supports integrations with:

  • ERPs (e.g Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite)
  • CRMs (e.g Salesforce)
  • E-Signature (DocuSign, Adobe Sign)
  • MAMs & Title Management Systems (e.g. Fabric)
  • Snowflake + data warehouses
Rightsline API & Integration

We offer APIs and event-based architecture to ensure seamless data exchange—something many older platforms can’t offer. We also offer enhanced data and integration services to complement your team’s resources should you want to assist in any data and integration migration needs.

Yes—and we’ve done it all. We’ve helped customers migrate from legacy royalty platforms, homegrown databases, and even 20+ years of spreadsheet history. Our proven migration framework ensures clean, accurate, and secure transitions—without disrupting your business.

Need more hands-on support? We also offer optional data consulting, migration, and integration services, including:

  • System mapping and cleanup
  • Complex contributor and contract data structuring
  • Integration with platforms like SAP, Oracle, and more

Whether you’re untangling old data or stitching Rightsline into your enterprise stack, our team has you covered.

We’re built for global: multi-language, multi-currency, multi-territory, with full support for region-specific rights rules, tax compliance, and tariffs.

  • Multilingual metadata
  • Global rights restrictions
  • Country-specific tax and tariff rules
  • Multi-currency calculations

Whether you’re licensing content in Latin America, publishing books in Europe, or selling product lines across Asia, Rightsline is built for global scale.

Results

Our customers typically report:

  • Clear availability reports in seconds, not hours
  • 50x faster calculation speeds
  • Near-zero royalty errors or overpayments
  • Reporting dashboards for executive insights
  • Happier legal, finance, and sales teams
  • Fewer “Who owns this?” Slack messages

Still Curious? Let’s Talk.

We’re here to help—whether you’re just exploring or ready to move on from a legacy solution, Rightsline can help you modernize the way rights and royalties get done.