Many rights agreements between publishers and stock imagery companies are now standardized. In RightsPlatform someone with limited knowledge of rights and permissions could already conduct research from a well-vetted collection of sources. With RPRightsChain, authors, editors, and designers can now quickly and easily approve their image, send their rights request with one click and receive their licensing grant without leaving the system or additional data entry. This dramatically lowers the cost of acquisitions and increases the control of creators in the process. The role of the rights researcher becomes more sophisticated— only reserved for the most difficult licensing negotiations.

In addition, rights transactions can either involve lengthy payment wait times or high service fees. RightsPlatform is finalizing instant payment features through the cryptocurrency Light Pay Coin, which has the potential to greatly lower transaction fees, provide instant payments to rights holders, and allow them to swap tokens for their country’s fiat. “Rights transactions are increasingly sophisticated,” says Bhogilal, “taking place across many countries with dozens of deliverables included. The transaction mechanism needs to be instant and needs to accommodate all the demands of international business exchanges.”

Light Pay Coin is a third-generation fork off the Bitcoin code base and is primarily targeted at fast, anonymous, automated transactions with multiple fiat and cryptocurrency conversion options.