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Check whether two license deals on one show clash

A title can be licensed to many companies at once, and most overlaps are fine. This app checks each pair of deals against the contract's own rules and flags the ones that actually clash.

For a rights managerMedia & Entertainment · Legal Services

Why it matters

Today's manual process, and the same job with the app

A rights manager at a film or TV licensor, clearing new deals against everything already signed.

✕Today's manual process

1Pull up both contracts and compare territory, platform, language and exclusivity line by line.
2Check the calendar for any days the two license windows share.
3Reread every clause for a holdback, a carve-out or a wider definition that changes the answer.
4One missed clause and a partner airs or streams a title it was never cleared for.
Every pair read and judged manually

✓With the app

1Both deals load together every term lined up, side by side.
2The app reads the clauses including holdbacks and carve-outs the calendar can't see.
3It gives a verdict conflict or fine, with the exact clause behind it.
4Real conflicts go to a lawyer before anything is licensed, aired or changed.
Every verdict comes with its clause

See it work

One real case, worked step by step

Greyling Networks' window on The Burning Meridian ends October 2027; Delphi Screens starts fifteen days later, but a holdback still blocks 46 days.

Check whether two license deals on one show clashReference appBuilt to be shaped to your process
  1. 1Grant A's terms Exclusive rights in Mexico, on EST, through October 2027.
  2. 2Grant B's terms Same market and platform, starting fifteen days after Grant A ends.
  3. 3The app's read The windows never touch, but a holdback still makes this a conflict.
  4. 4The proof Clause A-4.2 extends Grant A's exclusivity 46 days into Grant B's window.
  5. 5The outcome Sent to a rights lawyer; no grant is changed automatically.

For engineers

How it is built, and how we measured it

All fourteen steps of the build are written up, from the business case to running it in your own environment.

Kit overview →
120 of 120pairs correctly judged conflict or finemeasured in 06 Evals →
104 of 120readings with the right deciding axismeasured in 06 Evals →
72 of 72readings the calendar gets wrong, caughtmeasured in 06 Evals →
0.57¢to check one pairmeasured in 07 Unit cost →

The build, step by step

14 steps

Make it yours

What you see is a reference app. We shape it to how you work.

Every part of it is built to change, and none of it means starting over.

Your rulesYour own holdback terms, carve-outs and how each platform and territory is defined.
Your recordsYour own contracts and clause library, read exactly as your team keeps them.
Your systemsConnects to your rights management system; verdicts go wherever your team already tracks deals.
Your screensThe fields, deal names and layout your rights team already uses.

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