Match strategies

Match strategy examples

The following examples illustrate use cases of the different match strategies.

Note

In the following examples, France and Germany are subsets of Europe which is in turn a subset of World, and Social is a subset of Digital but Traditional is not.

Any

This example uses the following rights profiles with an Any match strategy:

Start	End	Territories	Media
Sep 14, 2020 `12:00` AM	May 1, 2021 `12:00` AM	World	Social
May 5, 2020 `12:00` AM	Jan 1, 2021 `12:00` AM	Europe	Digital

If you try to download an associated asset with the following intended use:

Start date: May 8, 2020
End date: December 31, 2020
Territory: France
Media: Digital

The intended use matches the second rights profile, but not the first; however, since the Any match strategy only requires one of the rights profiles to be satisfied, the download is permitted.

If you try to download an associated asset with the following intended use:

Start date: September 8, 2020
End date: December 31, 2020
Territory: France
Media: Traditional

This time, the intended use does not match either of the rights profiles, so the download is denied.

All

This example uses the following rights profiles with an All match strategy:

Start	End	Territories	Media
Sep 7, 2020 `12:00` AM	Dec 31, 2020 `11:55` PM	World	Social
May 5, 2020 `12:00` AM	May 21, 2021 `11:55` PM	France	Digital

If you try to download an associated asset with the following intended use:

Start date: September 8, 2020
End date: October 31, 2020
Territory: France
Media: Social

The intended use matches both rights profiles; because the All match strategy requires all rights profiles to be satisfied, the download is permitted.

If you try to download an associated asset with the following intended use:

Start date: December 1, 2020
End date: December 29, 2020
Territory: Europe
Media: Digital

This time, the intended use does not match the second rights profile, so the download is denied.

Subject-based

This example uses the following rights profiles with a subject-based match strategy:

Start	End	Territories	Media	Subject
Jan 1, 2020 `12:00` AM	Dec 31, 2020 `11:55` PM	France and Germany	Digital	Subject A
Aug 1, 2020 `12:00` AM	Dec 31, 2021 `11:55` PM	France	Digital	Subject B

With this strategy, the usage rights associated with each subject are combined and an optimized rights profile is calculated that satisfies both. This means that the asset can only be downloaded where the rights overlap (in terms of date, territory, and media). In other words, the asset can only be used between August 2020 and December 2020, in France, for digital media.

If you try to download an associated asset with the following intended use:

Start date: August 1, 2020
End date: December 31, 2020
Territory: France
Media: Digital

The intended use matches the optimized rights profile, so the download is permitted.

If you try to download an associated asset with the following intended use:

Start date: May 4, 2020
End date: December 31, 2020
Territory: France
Media: Digital

This time, the intended use does not match the optimized rights profile, so the download is denied.

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