Whether you’re taking a simple polaroid or you’re creating a complex campaign for P&G your rights can get very complicated. They are increasingly bound to have more complexity to the rights contain within them. A “simple” photo might have photographer rights, a brand or trademark that’s included in the image, a model with certain likeness usage restrictions. A more complex video or commercial spot might also include voice-over actors or music which has distinct rights tied to it. Combine this complexity with the need to get campaigns and products to market faster than ever before, and you’re often faced with bottlenecks and dependencies. This is where technology can really help you, with workflow, integrations and automation that can help empower your employees. If you can automate and streamline the digital asset life-cycle, you’ll gain productivity, faster time-to-market and you’ll be more competitive. By bridging the usage rights, which are typically defined during a contract process with the assets which are typically ingested through editorial you can get a full view at the asset level of the rights tied to that asset. And if you give the ability to users to query that data to obtain clearance answers during their production or campaigning process, then you can speed time to market, mitigate risk, and remain compliant with talent and rights holder agreements. You’ll also get a better view of your world through analytics and reporting. This just happens to be exactly what our product ARC does. ARC helps you clear assets in real time based on rights data stored in a cloud based repository. It integrates easily via web services to your DAM, MAM or other content systems It stores asset level rights as well as global rules and restrictions (i.e. business rules or mandates) It can capture payment or acknowledgement obligation (supports ODRL). Employs pre-fab industry rights models, but allows for configuration. Provides searching, reporting and clearance visibility.