Rights and video use

Delivery authority, legal ownership, listening distribution, optional Kasty video use and any commercial payment arrangement are separate decisions. The manifest and evidence model keeps them separate.

Operational control

The controlling catalog account can submit revisions and manage the record inside Kasty. It is not automatically the sole rights owner, publisher, performer, producer or royalty beneficiary. Real rights can involve several parties while a third party performs delivery.

Rights chain

The delivering organization must hold or be authorized to grant the rights required for the selected use and territories: sound recording and master, composition and lyrics, performers and neighboring rights, artwork and metadata. Membership or contracts with a collective management organization, publisher, label or distributor must not prevent the grant being made.

Listening only

Partner omission of a Kasty-specific video instruction resolves to DISABLED. The release may continue toward listening publication without creating permission for new user videos. This safe default lets a standard catalog arrive without forcing a distributor to understand Kasty clips on day one.

Full and clip

FULL or CLIP requires explicit authority for Kasty to enable that recording for new video uses. A clip carries exact start and duration boundaries. Commercial video use is a separate affirmative scope. Review the clip example.

Restricted uses

Ordinary user video, advertising, branded content and political content can require different authority. A base listening deal does not silently cover synchronization, sublicensing to end users or commercial-video use. Kasty can narrow product availability even when a partner attests that rights are available.

Payment boundary

Base Partner Terms and delivery acceptance do not create a royalty, revenue share, minimum payment or reimbursement obligation. Payments exist only when a separate signed commercial addendum applies and the defined Kasty monetization rules produce an amount payable under that addendum. An upstream tariff or third-party agreement cannot be imposed on Kasty through a manifest.

Changing future policy does not erase historical delivery evidence or retroactively invalidate a video grant already consumed while valid. New uses and broader revisions use the then-current policy.