Colophon / Rights and licences

Licensing images, footage, music, fonts or patents

License an image, footage, music, a typeface or a patent: the work, the use, territory, term and media a rights holder needs before naming a fee.

Write the specification

Specify

Describe the work and the use below and send them.

What it is for

A producer, publisher, brand or manufacturer often knows the work it wants (a photograph, a clip, a recording, a typeface, a patent family) but not who controls the rights or what a licence for its use would cost. Rights divide by territory, term and media, and an unlicensed use is expensive. Set out the work, the use, the territory, the term and the media, which is what a rights holder needs before naming a fee.

Who uses it

Video and podcast producers, publishers and advertising agencies, product designers and brand teams, manufacturers seeking a patent licence, and agents clearing rights for them.

What you get

A reference number, a licence request (the work, use, territory, term and media) a rights holder can price, and a reply when we can identify who to ask.

Who runs it, and what it costs

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Sending a requirement is free.

Scope

Any territory; the territory of the licence is recorded as stated.

Who owns a work, and whether a use needs a licence, are legal questions not answered here.
Patent licences are recorded only as a stated need; validity and infringement are not assessed.

For developers and agents

Send the same requirement as JSON to POST /rights-licensing/requests (schema: /rights-licensing/schema.json), or call the submit_request tool on the MCP endpoint at https://colophon.forevenza.com/mcp. This page as Markdown: index.md.

{
  "action": "license",
  "need": "Licence to use 30 seconds of a 1970s soul recording in an online video advertisement in the US and Canada for 12 months; both the master and the composition are needed.",
  "specifications": {
    "work_type": "SOUND_RECORDING",
    "work_identifier": "ISRC USAB17300123 (illustrative)",
    "intended_use": "online video advertisement, 30-second cut",
    "media": [
      "online video",
      "social media"
    ],
    "territory": "United States and Canada",
    "term_months": 12,
    "exclusivity": "NON_EXCLUSIVE"
  },
  "timing": {
    "earliest": "2027-01-15"
  },
  "geography": {
    "text": "United States and Canada"
  },
  "budget": {
    "amount": 25000,
    "currency": "USD",
    "per": "total"
  }
}