Rights & Royalties — Service 02
Your Rights Are
Earning. Know Exactly
How Much.
Royalty statements from a dozen platforms, residuals from multiple territories, distributor reports that don't always add up — Reelmath reconciles all of it into a clear picture of what your rights have earned.
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Rights income is complicated by design — it spans platforms, territories, formats, and time. When it's tracked well, you know what's been paid, what's been missed, and what your catalogue is actually worth. When it isn't, money gets left behind.
Full Statement Reconciliation
Every distributor, platform, and publisher statement reconciled against your contractual terms. Discrepancies surfaced and documented before they age out of dispute windows.
Quarterly Earnings Summaries
Clear reports organized by title, territory, and format — delivered quarterly so you always have a current, structured view of what your catalogue is generating.
Underpayment Identification
Patterns that indicate underpayment — across specific platforms, territories, or rights categories — identified and documented so they can be addressed.
Rights Income Is Hard to See Clearly.
Statements arrive from streaming platforms, traditional broadcasters, theatrical distributors, music publishers, and sync licensors — often in different formats, on different schedules, in different currencies. Each one needs to be read against the underlying contract, not just accepted at face value.
Residuals travel a different path entirely: guild and union obligations, distribution agreements, and back-end participation arrangements each carry their own calculation logic. Without systematic tracking, it's difficult to know whether what's been paid reflects what's contractually owed.
Most rights holders have a rough sense of what they're earning. Very few have a precise one. The gap between those two things tends to grow wider the more titles and territories are involved.
Where Rights Income Gets Complicated
Statements that don't match contractual royalty rates or territory splits
Residual calculations that vary by platform, format, and distribution window
No consolidated ledger to show cumulative earnings by title over time
Underpayments that age past the point where a dispute is practical
How Reelmath Manages Royalty Tracking
Systematic reconciliation built around your specific contracts, rights structure, and distribution arrangements — not a generic royalty management template applied uniformly.
Statement Intake & Contract Matching
Every incoming statement reviewed against the relevant contract terms — rates, territory definitions, format categories, and payment timing obligations all checked systematically.
Multi-Platform Reconciliation
Statements from streaming services, traditional distributors, publishers, and sync licensors reconciled into a single consolidated view — regardless of how differently each source reports.
Discrepancy Identification & Documentation
Underpayments and calculation errors flagged with full documentation — amounts, periods, platforms, and applicable contract language — so disputes can be pursued effectively.
Royalty Ledger Maintenance
A running royalty ledger maintained throughout the engagement, giving you a cumulative earnings record by title, territory, and format — updated as new statements arrive.
Quarterly Earnings Reports
Structured summaries by title, territory, and format delivered each quarter — formatted for your use and clear enough to share with partners, co-producers, or management.
Multi-Territory Coverage
Rights income tracked across more than 30 territories — including regions where statement formats and payment timing vary significantly from standard domestic arrangements.
What the Engagement Looks Like
Rights Inventory
We document your catalogue — titles, territories, distribution arrangements, and existing contracts — to establish the foundation for systematic tracking.
Statement Collection
Incoming royalty and residual statements collected from all relevant sources and organized for reconciliation as each period closes.
Reconciliation & Ledger Update
Each statement reconciled against contract terms, discrepancies flagged, and the royalty ledger updated to reflect confirmed earnings and outstanding amounts.
Quarterly Report Delivery
A structured earnings summary for the quarter delivered to you — organized by title, territory, and format, with any outstanding discrepancies noted.
What Royalty Tracking Costs
A fixed quarterly rate covering ongoing reconciliation, ledger maintenance, and earnings report delivery.
Quarterly Rate
$2,500
USD / quarter
Ongoing engagement billed quarterly. Covers all titles and territories in your active catalogue.
What's Included
Statement reconciliation against contract terms each period
Multi-platform and multi-territory income consolidation
Underpayment and discrepancy identification with documentation
Royalty ledger maintained and updated each quarter
Quarterly earnings summary by title, territory, and format
Suitable for artists, producers, publishers, and rights entities
Rights Management at Scale
Reelmath currently maintains royalty ledgers for more than 40 rights portfolios across 30+ territories. The methodology is consistent: reconcile every statement, flag every discrepancy, and keep the ledger current so rights holders always have an accurate earnings picture.
40+
Rights Portfolios Managed
30+
Territories Covered
12+
Years in Entertainment Finance
How Progress Is Measured
Statement-by-Statement Reconciliation
Each incoming statement is reconciled individually against the relevant contract — not batch-processed. This keeps discrepancies identifiable at the source.
Running Ledger Accuracy
The royalty ledger reflects confirmed earnings only — pending amounts and disputed items are tracked separately so the numbers you see are reliable.
Quarterly Report Delivery
Earnings summaries delivered within a few weeks of each quarter's close — organized and formatted for use, not requiring interpretation before they're useful.
Engagement Timeline
Setup — catalogue documentation and initial contract review — typically takes two to three weeks. Ongoing quarterly work follows the natural statement cycle of your distributors and platforms.
What We Stand Behind
If the reporting format, reconciliation scope, or quarterly structure doesn't fit your catalogue, we work with you to adjust it. Rights management that doesn't match how you actually use the information isn't doing its job.
Contract-Based Reconciliation
Every reconciliation is grounded in your actual contract terms — not industry averages or assumed rates. What you're owed is what gets tracked.
Discrepancy Documentation
When we identify an underpayment, we document it fully — amounts, periods, platforms, and the contract language that applies — so it can be disputed with substance.
Open Conversation to Start
We begin with a discussion of your catalogue and current arrangements. The scope and structure of the engagement are agreed before work begins.
How to Bring Reelmath Into Your Rights Management
You don't need everything organized before reaching out. We can work with what you have and build from there.
Step 01
Reach Out
Tell us about your catalogue — how many titles, which territories and platforms are involved, and what your current visibility into royalty income looks like.
Step 02
Catalogue Review & Setup
We document your titles, review contracts and existing statements, and establish the ledger structure and reconciliation workflow before the first quarter begins.
Step 03
Ongoing Tracking Begins
Statements reconciled, ledger updated, discrepancies flagged — and a quarterly earnings summary in your hands within weeks of each quarter's close.
Ready to See the Full Picture of What Your Rights Are Earning?
Tell us about your catalogue and current arrangements. We'll discuss how royalty tracking with Reelmath would work for your situation.
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