Licensing images, footage, music, fonts or patents

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. This records the work, the use and the terms needed so that where licences are hard to obtain, and what users would pay, can be studied.

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 happens to a request

The work and the use are recorded as described. No licence is granted, sold or negotiated here, no rights holder is contacted, and nothing here says who owns a work. If you leave a contact and a rights holder or licensing agent can be identified, a reply may come; it is not promised. Contact details are stored apart from the requirement and deleted after 180 days.

What you get

A receipt with the request's identifier, the fields we could not match (a rights holder, a fee or a licence is never supplied here), and a plain statement of what happens next.

Scope and limits

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

• No rights are held, granted or cleared; this records the requirement.
• 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.

What you can specify

• the work: title, identifier, ISRC, patent number or a link
• the use and the media
• territory, term and exclusivity
• print run, impressions or units

Next step

POST the licence requirement to /rights-licensing/requests (or /requests), use the form on this page, or call the submit_request MCP tool with proposition "rights-licensing".

Or send JSON to POST /rights-licensing/requests (schema: /rights-licensing/schema.json). Example:

{
  "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"
  }
}