Using Linked Contracts to Automatically Attach Contracts to Works

Whenever you create a Work in your catalogue, you will need to tell Curve which Contracts participate in the income of this Work and with which share. Manually assigning the Contracts and calculating their participation rates is one option. Or, you can use our Linked Contract functionality and let Curve handle this process automatically.

When creating Composers for your controlled songwriters or controlled Publishers, you will have the option to link a Contract to this Composer/Publisher. Then once you create a Work and its IP Chain, you can let Curve work out the Participation Rates of the Composers or Publishers on this Work, and assign this Participation to their Linked Contracts. Curve can work out amongst which Contract this income should be divided, under the condition that the Owned Performance is consistently split between Composers and Publishers across the IP Chain.

1

Linking the Contract

To link a Contract to your Composer, go into your Composer's or Publisher's page and assign a Contract via the Linked Contracts area.

2

Creating the IP Chain in Your Work

When creating the IP Chain in your Work; based on the controlled Composers and Publishers, their share, and their linked Contract; Curve can work out which Contracts to assign to this Work and at which Participation Rate.

Once you have finished building your IP Chain, go to the Work's Rights section and click the Flush Contracts to Work button. Curve will then load the linked Contracts and their participation to that Work.

Curve only looks at the first IP Chain on the Work to work out the correct Contracts and their Participation Rates. It will link a Contract for each controlled Composer or Publisher with a Linked Contract in this chain. It will calculate the Participation Rate using the below formulas.

Participation Rate of Composer = (Owned Performance % of Composer / Sum of Owned Performance % of all Controlled Composers) * 100

Participation Rate of Publisher = (Owned Performance % of Publisher / Sum of Owned Performance % of all Controlled Publishers) * 100

Flush Contracts To Works in Bulk

Using the Bulk Update tool on the Works page, you can automatically update a select or all works on your client and assign the Linked Contracts. All the Works that you have filtered on will be included in the bulk update.