Patent ID: 7925671

Claim:
A method in a computing system of generating a cue sheet for submission to a performing rights society, the method comprising: receiving an edit decision list containing edit actions associated with a plurality of tracks in a broadcast production; receiving metadata associated with the broadcast production comprising one or more of a name of the broadcast production, a network airing the broadcast production, a production company of the broadcast production, a producer, a length of the broadcast production and an airing date of the broadcast production; extracting at least one track identifier associated with a track from the edit decision list; extracting use data from the edit decision list for each extracted track identifier, the use data comprising a duration of use of the associated track and a form of use of the associated track; searching a music catalog database to retrieve identification data for each extracted track identifier, the identification data comprising a composer, a publisher, and a performing rights society affiliated with the extracted track identifier; and dynamically formatting with the computer system a cue sheet for submission to a performing rights society for the payment of royalties, the cue sheet comprising information about tracks used in the broadcast production including: 1) track titles, duration of use and a form of use that are extracted from the edit decision list 2) a composer's name, publisher and affiliated performing rights society associated with a track that are retrieved from the database and 3) at least some of the received metadata; wherein code implementing the method is stored in a memory of the computing system for execution by a processor of the computing system.