Royalty agreements?

Expressing royalty splits is a common requirement for media (in particular music, images, video).
In ODRL V1.1 we had an explicit mechanism to express that directly related to the Party.

But I think we can better express that now as a Duty - as a royalty agreement is an obligation on some party to pay other parties.

Below is my attempt to express this - comments welcome.

The **royalty** action indicates that the assigner permits the assignee’s to collect royalties from the use of the Asset.
Since roles are important in these use cases, the assignee’s are expressed as @ids and functions.

The two duties indicate the percentage split percentage, and makes it clear that the assignee of the Duty is “sony” and who the compensatedParty is.


Renato Iannella, Monegraph
Co-Chair, W3C Permissions & Obligations Expression (POE) Working Group


{
    "policytype": "http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/Agreement",
    "policyid": "http://publisher.com/workid:885273431",
    "permissions": [
        {
            "target": "http://iswc.org/T-915.254.240.0",
            "action": "http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/**royalty**",
            "assigner": "http://publisher.com/sony",
            "assignee": {
                 "@id": "http://example.com/billie <http://example.com/billie>",
                 "function": "http://cisac.org/role/composer <http://cisac.org/role/composer>" },
            "assignee": {
                 "@id": "http://example.com/corky <http://example.com/corky>",
                 “function”: "http://cisac.org/role/ <http://cisac.org/role/>lyricist"  },
            "duties": [{
                "action": "http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/compensate",
                "constraints": [{
                    "name": "http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/percentage",
                    "operator": "http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/eq",
                    "rightoperand": “75",
                    "assignee": "http://publisher.com/sony",
                    "compensatedParty": "http://example.com/billie"
                }]
                },
                {
                "action": "http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/compensate",
                "constraints": [{
                    "name": "http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/percentage",
                    "operator": "http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/eq",
                    "rightoperand": “25",
                    "assignee": "http://publisher.com/sony",
                    "compensatedParty": "http://example.com/corky"
                }]
            }]
        }]
}