Content Licence Review Tool: Flags Marked on the Content Licence
Upload a content or copyright licence. The same file comes back with flags on scope, exclusivity, royalties, moral rights and reversion.
Checkory is a content licence review tool. Upload the content or copyright licence, covering media, editorial, stock or brand content, and get the same file back with flags on scope, media, territory, exclusivity, royalties, moral rights, sublicensing and reversion, plus a short explanation and a pointer to England and Wales.
A content or copyright licence leaves scope, media, territory, exclusivity, royalties, moral rights, sublicensing and reversion unmarked, so an all-media line and an open sublicence read as if they were already settled. In practice the pdf on Monday morning still looks finished. The typical mistake is to read the clause on sublicensing and treat the rest as settled before you sign.
The same content licence comes back with flags on scope, exclusivity, royalties, moral rights and reversion, plus a short explanation and an England and Wales pointer. Before the licence is signed, name which of those marks goes to a solicitor with the file.
What a content licence hides
A content or copyright licence in one upload
Confirm the file is permission to use editorial, stock, film, audio or brand content, as a PDF or DOCX. A software licence and dated website terms are other uploads, marked on their own pages below.
Media, editorial, stock or brand content
Scope is the sentence that says what the user may do. Section 16 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 gives the owner the exclusive right in the United Kingdom to copy the work, issue copies to the public, rent or lend the work to the public, perform, show or play the work in public, communicate the work to the public, and make an adaptation. Doing or authorising any of those acts without the licence of the copyright owner infringes copyright. The Intellectual Property Office guidance, last updated 4 January 2022, says a licence may relate to one or more of the rights and may be limited in time or any other way. A line that says all rights is a flag on the file.
The same file comes back with flags
Moral rights can remain after a grant of copyright. Section 2(2) says the rights in sections 77, 80 and 85 can subsist whether or not the author or director owns the copyright. Section 94 says they are not assignable. Section 87(2) is a signed written waiver. Section 77 is not infringed unless the right to be identified has been asserted under section 78. Flag the sentence or the silence, and flag a line that assigns them. The commissioning how-to stays on How to Review a Moral-Rights Waiver in a Commissioning Agreement.
Scope, money, exit
The table marks four rows on the same file: media, exclusivity, royalties and reversion. Territory is a flag beside those rows. The comparison answers a checklist or one sublicence clause that leaves the rest unmarked.
Media, exclusivity, royalties and reversion on the content licence.
| Row on the file | What the sentence does | What you do with the mark |
|---|---|---|
| Media | The channels written on the file, such as print, a site, social or broadcast, and any schedule that is missing. Section 16 lists restricted acts in the United Kingdom and contains no media menu. | Flag the row that is written. Leave channel names the draft does not use off the mark. A finding that every restricted act was granted stays with a solicitor. |
| Exclusivity | Section 92 means a licence in writing signed by or on behalf of the copyright owner, authorising the licensee to the exclusion of all other persons, including the person granting the licence. A sentence that says exclusive and still lets the owner keep using the work misses that definition on its face. Section 101 gives an exclusive licensee, except against the copyright owner, concurrent rights after the grant. Sole has no definition in section 92. | Flag the mismatch and leave the finding with a solicitor. |
| Royalties | The base the draft counts, any rate or minimum the draft writes, and the reporting or audit sentence or its gap. No royalty rate appears in section 16, section 90, section 92, or the guidance page fetched on 10 October 2026. | Flag what the draft counts and what it leaves undefined. A royalty-audit sentence stays in this row. |
| Reversion | The term, return or reversion sentence, or the gap if use is perpetual. Paragraph 27 applies where the author of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work was the first owner. Grants by that author, other than by will, after the 1911 Act and before 1 June 1957, do not vest rights beyond 25 years from the death of the author. Paragraph 27(4) keeps that limit off a collective-work assignment and off a licence to publish a work as part of a collective work. | Flag the exit. A licence signed now takes its end date from its own sentence. No United States termination statute was fetched. |
A marked content licence
Pros
- ✓You upload the content or copyright licence. The same file comes back with the table flags, a short explanation and an England and Wales pointer where a provision was fetched.
Cons
- ✗The pass stops at the flag. Infringement, the effect of a waiver, and whether paragraph 27 applies stay with a solicitor. The pass does not replace a solicitor.
A negotiation checklist
Pros
- ✓BrieflyGo, fetched on 10 October 2026, returns a plain-English risk scan and a negotiation checklist, and says the scan is not a substitute for a lawyer. A Lexis question dated 7 February 2017 is the same neighbour type. Its intellectual-property conclusion was unread on 10 October 2026.
Cons
- ✗The product is the report. Media, exclusivity, royalties, moral rights and reversion can stay unmarked on the file you hold.
One sublicence clause
Pros
- ✓The live software article already reviews a right to sublicence affiliates and end users. That is the honest place for a single-clause how-to on a software licence.
Cons
- ✗Reading only that clause leaves the rest of this content licence unmarked. The quote on this page is one flag, and grant, metrics and audit stay on the software page.
“The sublicence sentence on this content licence, or the gap where the draft never says who may grant onwards: who may grant, on which media, and what happens to those grants when the head licence ends. Sections 16, 90, 92 and 101 contain no copyright sublicence code.”
See the marks on the content licence
Analyse a contractExample flag on an over-broad sublicence
One quoted flag on the uploaded licence
The quote is that sentence, or the marked gap. Flag an open grant to any person, a grant across all media with no recipient, a missing consent gate, and silence on onwards grants when the head licence ends. For example, a line that lets any person grant the work onwards, with no medium and no end, is the flag. Whether silence forbids a sublicence stays with a solicitor.
Exclusivity points at section 92. Concurrent rights, except against the copyright owner, are section 101. Reversion points at Schedule 1 paragraph 27. Section 90 requires signed writing for an assignment and allows a partial assignment. Sections 16, 90, 92 and 101 contain no copyright sublicence code.
Burness Paull LLP, writing on Lexology on 13 February 2025, say the 1988 Act is silent on copyright sublicensing and that a sublicence is likely to need words in the head licence. The word likely is their view. VLM Holdings Ltd v Ravensworth Digital Services Ltd stays on the software article.
Affiliates and end users stay on the software article
Affiliates, contractors and end users are the job of How to Review a Right to Sublicence Affiliates and End Users. Territory sits beside the four rows: section 16(1) is the United Kingdom, and a worldwide line is the contract sentence. If the verb is assign, flag it beside scope. Section 90(4) binds successors except a purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration without notice, actual or constructive.
Tool vs checklist vs one sublicence clause
A marked file is not a point checklist
A negotiation checklist or a creator counter-ask can feel finished while the rest of the file stays unmarked. ReviewAgreement, fetched on 10 October 2026, flags usage, exclusivity, whitelisting and AI rights on a UGC brand deal and writes a counter-ask. The artefact here is the same content licence.
One sublicence clause stays on the blog
A LexisNexis question with Joanne Frears, published 7 February 2017, asks whether a copyright licence implies a sublicence. The opening names British Waggon Co v Lea. The intellectual-property conclusion was not readable on 10 October 2026.
Content license agreement review tool
Same job as the EN-GB licence page
Content license agreement review tool is the US spelling of this upload. The slug stays on licence. CreatorTerms scores a creator contract, Contract Protection AI returns risk scores, and Black X returns counterproposals. This upload returns the marked content licence.
An influencer agreement is a different paper
Whitelisting, a kill fee and a morality clause mark an influencer agreement. Contracko reviews that paper. Scope, royalties, moral rights and reversion on a content licence stay here.
Upload a content licence for review
A catalogue submission is not this review
A search for upload content licence for review on 10 October 2026 returned catalogue steps at wilds.ai, Mendix, Shutterstock and partnrUP. Those pages take content into a library.
The licence file is what gets uploaded
Drop the PDF or DOCX of the content or copyright licence. Open the upload at document analysis. A sample form is a different result.
Content licensing agreement review tool
BrieflyGo returns a risk report and a checklist
Content licensing agreement review tool often means a risk report. BrieflyGo returns a summary and a negotiation checklist, and says the scan is not a substitute for a lawyer. The flags here stay on the uploaded content licence.
Rewritable rewrites clauses
Rewritable, on the licensing-agreement search, shows clause rewrites and a deal tracker. This page marks the sentence you uploaded.
This page returns the same content licence
LegalValidate scores a general licensing agreement, including patents, trade marks and a quality-control item. That item belongs with the brand licence.
Software licence flags stay on the software page
Grant, metrics and audit stay on that page
Grant, metrics, audit and termination are the flags on the software licence review tool. An on-prem software licence belongs on that upload.
A content licence is a different file
Editorial, stock, film, audio or brand content is this file. A royalty-audit sentence stays in the royalty row and does not import a seat metric.
Website terms stay on the terms page
Clickwrap renew, cancel and arbitrate stay on that page
Renew, cancel, arbitrate, train and unilateral change are the flags on the website terms review tool.
A dated terms file is not this content licence
A content licence names the work, the media, the money and the exit. Keep the two files apart when both arrive on Monday morning.
A sublicence how-to stays on the blog
Affiliates, contractors and end users stay on the live article
Contractors sit with affiliates and end users in the software sublicence article. The quote on this page is one flag: the sentence is wide, missing a recipient, or silent on the end of the head licence.
A moral-rights waiver stays on the blog
Paternity and integrity stay on the live article
Paternity and integrity in a commissioning agreement are the how-to in the moral-rights waiver article. Section 78 says section 77 is not infringed unless the right has been asserted so as to bind that person, on an assignment or by an instrument in writing signed by the author or director. The court takes account of delay. A credit line is not, by itself, a decided assertion. Section 77 is subject to section 79.
Section 80 is the right not to have the work subjected to derogatory treatment. Treatment means an addition, deletion, alteration or adaptation, other than a translation or a mere change of key or register. It is derogatory if it amounts to distortion or mutilation, or is otherwise prejudicial to the honour or reputation of the author or director. Sections 81 and 82 qualify the section. A crop, a cut or a caption is a fact for the flag.
A moral-rights flag is one mark on this file
Section 87(3) presumes a waiver in favour of the copyright owner extends to licensees and successors unless a contrary intention is expressed. Section 87(4) leaves an informal waiver to contract and estoppel. The pass does not decide estoppel. The fetched text does not require a deed.
Trademark quality control stays on the brand page
Naked-licence risk stays on the trademark page
Quality control lives on the trademark licence page. This page leaves that row there.
LegalValidate quality control is not this content licence
The LegalValidate note, fetched on 10 October 2026, says that without approval rights a trademark licence can weaken the mark. That sentence stays on the brand-licence upload.
A dataset licence stays on the data page
Permitted use, provenance and revocation stay on that page
Permitted use, provenance and revocation are the flags on the data licence page.
This page is a content licence
Editorial copy, a stock frame, a film clip, an audio bed or brand content is this review. A revocation sentence aimed at a derived model stays on the data page.
A publishing agreement stays off this page
Subsidiary rights and an advance stay on the publishing card
Subsidiary rights, an advance and an out-of-print test belong on the publishing card. This review adds no next-work option.
Reversion on a content licence is not that contract
Reversion here is the term or return sentence on this file, or the gap if use is perpetual. The 25 years in paragraph 27 stay on grants after the 1911 Act and before 1 June 1957. A content licence signed now takes its end date from the sentence on the file.
Chat, Word add-on and lifecycle software
A general chat answers in a thread, a Word add-on redlines inside the editor, and the WiFi Talents shortlist updated on 28 August 2026 ranks repository tools. High marks go to a solicitor with the marked file: an open sublicence, a scope line with no act and no medium, an exclusivity word that reserves the owner, an undefined royalty base, a moral-rights line that reads as an assignment, and a reversion line that cites paragraph 27 for a later licence. The pass does not replace a solicitor.
When a mark goes to a solicitor
The reader can point to the scope sentence, the media row, the territory sentence, the exclusivity sentence, the royalty sentence, the moral-rights sentence or its gap, the sublicence sentence or its gap, and the reversion sentence, can keep Schedule 1 paragraph 27 off a modern contractual end date, and does not treat the pass as legal advice, a court result, or a solicitor opinion.
FAQ
Which file should I upload for this first pass?
A content or copyright licence: permission to use editorial, stock, film, audio or brand content, as a PDF or DOCX. An on-prem software licence, dated website terms, a trademark licence fought on quality control, a dataset or data-feed licence, and a publisher agreement with an advance are other papers. The upload path is the document analysis page.
Does an all-media line grant every act in section 16?
Section 16 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, fetched on 10 October 2026, lists the acts restricted by copyright in the United Kingdom: copy the work, issue copies to the public, rent or lend it, perform, show or play it in public, communicate it to the public, and make an adaptation. The Intellectual Property Office guidance, last updated 4 January 2022, says a licence may cover one or more of those rights and may be limited in time or any other way. An all-media line is a flag on the file. The pass records the sentence and leaves a finding that every restricted act was granted to a solicitor.
What does exclusive have to say before it matches section 92?
Section 92 describes a licence in writing signed by or on behalf of the copyright owner, authorising the licensee to the exclusion of all other persons, including the person granting the licence. A sentence that says exclusive and still lets the owner keep using the work misses that definition on its face. Sole has no definition in that section. Section 101 gives an exclusive licensee, except against the copyright owner, concurrent rights and remedies after the grant. That subsection is a pointer. The pass leaves the finding on whether this draft meets section 92 to a solicitor.
Can moral rights travel with the copyright on this licence?
Section 94 says moral rights are not assignable. Section 2(2) says the rights in sections 77, 80 and 85 can subsist whether or not the author or director owns the copyright. A waiver under section 87(2) is an instrument in writing signed by the person giving up the right. Section 77 is not infringed unless the right to be identified has been asserted under section 78. Flag a sentence that assigns the rights, or the silence. The pass leaves the effect of a waiver, including estoppel under section 87(4), to a solicitor. A commissioning-waiver how-to is a separate article.
Does Schedule 1 paragraph 27 end a content licence signed now?
Paragraph 27 limits certain grants made by the author as first owner, otherwise than by will, after the 1911 Act and before 1 June 1957, so they do not vest rights beyond 25 years from the death of the author. It does not apply to an assignment of copyright in a collective work or a licence to publish a work as part of a collective work. A content licence signed now takes its end date from the sentence on the file. Flag that sentence, or the gap if use is perpetual. No United States termination-of-transfers statute was fetched for this page.
What should I do with an open sublicence on this file?
Quote the sentence, or the gap if the draft never says who may grant onwards. Sections 16, 90, 92 and 101 contain no copyright sublicence code. Burness Paull LLP, writing on Lexology on 13 February 2025, say the 1988 Act is silent and that it is likely no right to sublicence will be implied unless the head licence contemplates it. That word likely is their view. Flag an open grant, a missing consent gate, and silence on what happens when the head licence ends. High marks go to a solicitor with the marked file. The pass does not replace a solicitor.
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