Patent ID: 7123814

Claim:
A method of facilitating identification of audio and/or video productions, said method comprising maintaining a register of unique program identification codes which identify corresponding audio/video productions, assigning a new unique program identification code on request from a producer of a new audio/video production, up-dating the register with said new unique program identification code in association with said new audio/video production, acquiring items of audio/video material for use in forming said new audio/video production, identifying the copyright owner of said new audio/video production, storing an identifier of the copyright owner of said new audio/video production in said register in association with said unique program identification code, generating during acquisition of said audio/video material items a unique identifying code for each of said audio/video material items, populating said register with said unique identifying codes in association with said unique program identification code, identifying the copyright owner of each of said items of audio/video material used to form said new audio/video production, and populating said register with an identifier of said copyright owner of each of said audio/video material items in association with the corresponding one of said unique identifying codes.