02—Venture
RightsHub
A system-independent rights management platform helping libraries, archives and museums manage and share usage rights across their existing systems.
Opportunity
Libraries, archives and museums manage usage rights across a patchwork of systems, spreadsheets and institutional memory. Every system holds a fragment; none holds the answer. Clearing a single image can take days of correspondence.
Our role
RightsHub is conceived and built within Forge Rocks — from product strategy and UX to platform architecture — together with partners from the cultural heritage sector.
The venture
RightsHub is system-independent by design: a dedicated rights layer that connects to existing collection systems rather than replacing them. Rights are recorded once, in one vocabulary, and shared wherever the collection is used.
Status
In developmentCurrently in development: shaping the platform with libraries, archives and museums ahead of a first release.
