The repository for royalty master data stores royalty agreements made between supplier and customer:

• List of suppliers and subsuppliers
• Royalty agreement = Condition
• Condition types: pricelist, flatrate and "special"-condition
• Limited period of validity for conditions
• Local constraints for context of utilisation
• Discount rules: Multiple usage (duplicates), royalty caps

Together with additional parameters, which depend on the utilisation context, royalty master data serves to find the royalty amount for a particular asset usage. Among these parameters are:

• Location, position, size
• Relation to other assets

With automatic markup the master data repository works as a DAM module, but it may be used as a standalone component as well:

• Royalty request as XML-RPC based web service
• Valuation of assets
• in different contexts of utilisation
• also external to DAM
• Cf. product: XmpMark
• Cf. project: Instant Value