Patent ID: 8543605
Filing Date: 2013-09-24
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing a right in a media asset, comprising: maintaining a database of media assets that includes records for each media asset; maintaining a database of rights holders that includes records for rights holders in media assets included in the database of media assets, said records indicating the media assets in which a rights holder has a right, and the type of right held in each media asset; receiving a request to license a media asset as a result of an interaction with an electronic user interface on behalf of a customer; obtaining, from the database of rights holders, information about at least one rights holder in the requested media asset, said information including a right held by the at least one rights holder; electronically requesting approval to license the requested media asset from the at least one rights holder according to the right held by the at least one rights holder; upon approval of the request to license the requested media asset from the at least one rights holder, providing to the customer and to at least one rights holder in the requested media asset a license agreement for the customer to use the requested media asset; else, upon denial of the request to license the requested media asset from the at least one rights holder: wherein the method is implemented by a server computer.