The rights answer?

For something as specialized as distribution rights management software, there's quite a bit of choice for buyers. Package capabilities can encompass just tracking rights availabilities and conflicts to managing the entire process, from acquisition to program delivery and the subsequent parceling out of merchandising rights. It all depends on what a distributor needs and, more likely, what it can afford. While not an exhaustive survey by any means, realscreen tracked down three of the more popular providers currently on the market to see what they have to offer. We also got current users to weigh in on the pluses and minuses of the respective systems.