One-page checklist for streaming royalty and rights compliance: the four royalty layers (video, embedded music, talent residuals, sound-recording performance), metering to the deal's definitions, the §115 machine-readable monthly report of usage and DDEX DSR reporting, the minimum-guarantee recoupment ledger, the right-to-audit trail (immutable, event-sourced), and the 2023 success-based streaming-residual threshold.
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This rights, reporting and royalty compliance checklist covers the four royalty layers, metering to deal definitions, monthly usage reporting, minimum-guarantee recoupment and the audit trail. We wrote seven volumes on the video stack; start with Volume 3 for player events, DRM and delivery economics, then Volume 2 for packaging and Volume 1 for encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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