Patent ID: 8117094

Claim:
A system to facilitate royalty tracking, the system comprising: a memory; one or more micro components comprising one or more tags, stored in the memory, the one or more micro components providing tracing, tracking, and accounting capabilities for data, wherein at least one of the micro components enables dynamic advertising to provide incentive for participation in a promotion regarding the data; one or more of the one or more tags stored in the memory to identify a portion of a first creative work, the portion representing a subset of portions comprising the first creative work; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor executing components stored in the memory that comprise: a distribution component to track the portion of the first creative work; a crediting component to report a usage of the portion, when the portion is detected in a second creative work; one or more security components to ensure that the portion of the first creative work remains intact to the one or more tags to mitigate non-permitted access to tagged data of the portion of the first creative work, the one or more security components to prevent extraction of the portion from the first creative work without the tag; authorized works data to indicate limits on uses of creative works; an arbitration component to determine if limits on uses of the second creative work, indicated by the authorized works data, indicate all entities that are associated with tags within the second creative work; a micro transaction component to initiate transactions if the arbitration component determines that limits on uses of the second creative work do not indicate all entities associated with tags within the second creative work, the transactions including licensing agreements or royalty payments; and a derivative property component to create a derivative work by: associating each of a plurality of intellectual properties with a tag; combining the associated plurality of intellectual properties and their associated tags to form the derivative work; associating the derivative work with a further tag; and encrypting the plurality of intellectual properties using respective tags of the intellectual properties as keys in the encryption, such that removal of tags prevents decryption and presence of tags allows transactions by operation of the micro transaction component.