Copyright claims and revenue allocation on streaming platforms

This paper examines how to allocate the revenue generated by content creation on streaming platforms when creators may hold overlapping copyright claims over the work of others. We develop a stylized model of such environments and propose the Equal Rights allocation rule. We provide two axiomatic characterizations of this rule based on principles directly relevant to our setting. Using a cooperative game-theoretic approach, we define content creation games that capture revenue generation under copyright constraints. We show that the Equal Rights rule always produces Core-stable allocations, while maintaining properties that set it apart from the Shapley value.