The Associate will manage intellectual property rights across various content platforms, ensuring compliance, clearance, and collaboration with legal teams.
We are seeking a knowledgeable and detail-oriented rights management candidate to oversee the clearance, tracking and management of all intellectual property rights across our content portfolio, which spans films, television, digital and emerging media across all general entertainment channels, sports and digital platforms. The candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring our content is properly managed, licensed, distributed and exploited in compliance with contractual obligations.
Key Responsibilities :
- Rights Tracking & Database Management: Maintain and update rights management systems to reflect current ownership, term, language and territory/platform restrictions. Input and validate contract metadata, including rights in/out, holdbacks, term expirations.
- Content Clearance & Licensing: Work with production, legal and content acquisition teams to clear rights. Review and track licenses, permissions, and restrictions across content assets.
- Contract Interpretation & Rights Analysis: Analyze complex licensing agreements and distribution agreements to determine rights availability and obligations. Generate rights availability reports for internal stakeholders, including sales, marketing, and programming teams.
- Compliance & Risk Mitigation: Identify and escalate rights conflicts, expirations or compliance restrictions before content is distributed or monetized. Support internal audits and due diligence for content library acquisitions, or distribution deals.
- Collaboration & Stakeholder Support: Serve as a key resource to legal, production and distribution teams regarding content rights and clearances. Liaise with scheduling, technology, consumer products, marketing teams on various assignments.
Preferred Education and Experience
- LLB
- 5–7 years’ experience in rights management, content clearance, or business/legal affairs in the media/entertainment industry.
- Sound knowledge of copyright, trademark and contract law as applied to media rights.
- Familiarity with rights management software.
About Us
Perched firmly at the nucleus of spellbinding content and innovative technology, JioStar is a leading global media & entertainment company that is reimagining the way audiences consume entertainment and sports. Its television network and streaming service together reach more than 750 million viewers every week, igniting the dreams and aspirations of hundreds of million people across geographies.
JioStar is an equal opportunity employer. The company values diversity and its mission is to create a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. The company ensures that the work environment is free from any discrimination against persons with disabilities, gender, gender identity and any other characteristics or status that is legally protected.
Top Skills
Rights Management Software
JioStar Thāne, Mahārāshtra, IND Office
Reliance Corporate IT Park LTD, Build.5, 1st Floor, C-Wi, 5, Thāne, Maharashtra , India, 400701
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