Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Reliable control of all your licenses and effective protection for your business
with Sharedien's precise rights management

Selection of our clients

Always on the

safe side.

In most cases, content elements like images are purchased externally, so licenses play an important role
and a violation can involve significant costs.
How long can an image be used for which channel and in which countries? Who owns the image rights and what does the license cost for which regions? These are crucial questions in the realm of digital asset management (DAM) and digital rights management (DRM).

License security and efficiency

More and more, images are being purchased externally, making licenses, copyright, and digital rights management (DRM) software solutions an increasingly important issue. It is crucial to always keep an eye on licenses, copyright, and image rights — especially with international campaigns and many output channels.

To make everyday life easier, Sharedien DAM integrates Digital Rights Management with many helpful features that monitor the use of content such as images and videos, while reliably protecting access to digital assets.

With Sharedien's DRM, you are always on the safe side.

  • Overview of all licenses
  • Completely automated
  • Minimized risks for legal disputes

License rights
at a glance

From A to Z, Sharedien DAM presents all licensing data that is necessary for effective digital rights management. This includes information like the license period, price lists, contact persons, rights holders such as photographers, models, artists, and agencies, regional coverage of licenses, costs by region, permitted media use, and much more. With our DAM system, your company can reliably manage all licenses and rights to digital content.

Active license
management

Sharedien DAM users can easily buy, renew, and adjust licenses and generate orders and invoices via direct connections to common image databases. Purchased licenses can be attached to content and campaigns and additional information and descriptions can be added. This gives managers a complete overview of the legal usage situation of their digital assets at all times.

Audited

quality

We guarantee the highest standards of quality and safety — ISO certified.

FAQs

Brief answers to the most frequently asked questions.

1. What does digital rights management mean?

Digital rights management refers to the system-supported monitoring of license rights, for example for image or video material. Sharedien has comprehensive digital rights management to automatically control the license duration and coverage.

2. What are the advantages of digital rights management?

Images and videos purchased through platforms such as Getty Images or Shutterstock are usually subject to licensing restrictions. Even image material produced in-house by photographers and in collaboration with models is often subject to very specific licensing regulations. These regulations govern how long, to what extent, for what purpose, for which media, and in which regions and countries the digital content may be used.

Once you have a certain amount of digital assets, monitoring and controlling these license rights can become very time-consuming—and it is not uncommon for unintentional license violations to occur, leading to unnecessary costs.

Digital rights management takes over the automated monitoring, control, and in some cases even the renewal of license rights, thereby avoiding costly license violations and saving resources.

3. Does Sharedien have digital rights management?

Yes, Sharedien has comprehensive digital rights management.

4. How does digital rights management work?

Digital rights management stores and manages important licensing information such as the permitted license term, covered regions and countries, permitted use, and the names and contact details of contact persons, photographers, and models.

Digital rights management thus centralizes all important data relating to the use of purchased assets. Automated monitoring processes notify responsible persons when licenses expire or are used illegally. This enables companies to proactively avoid risks and manage their licenses more efficiently and securely.

5. When do I need digital rights management?

Anyone who regularly licenses digital content from external image databases such as Getty Images or Shutterstock, or who works with external agencies, photographers, and models, can benefit from digital rights management. Manual monitoring of usage licenses is not only very time-consuming, it also often leads to accidental license violations, which can result in high costs.

Sharedien therefore offers comprehensive and reliable digital rights management to avoid these risks.

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Workspaces

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Brand Portal

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System integration

From asset creation to execution, we focus on integration. Benefit from interfaces to all common input and output channels.