When your team wants to use customer, creator, or influencer content in a store experience, the key question is simple: do you have permission to use it, and for which channels?

Rights agreements in Sauce help you keep that permission process organised. They give your team a clearer way to record approvals, attach agreement documents, control allowed usage, and decide whether each media item can be published.

A rights agreement is the permission record connected to a piece of user-generated content. It can be based on a creator response, a stored agreement, or a brand-owned content decision.

Sauce uses this record to show whether publishing is allowed, which agreement approved the media, which usage channels are allowed, whether any usage channels are blocked, which territories are covered, and whether the agreement expires.

Go to Visual Shopping > Media Library, then open Rights Agreements from the Content hub sidebar. This opens the Rights Agreements area where media, agreement references, and settings can be managed.

You can also open the main UGC menu and choose Rights Agreements. This takes you to the same area at /backoffice/media/rights-library.

Inside Rights Agreements, use the Manage navigation to switch between:

DM Rights Requests is separate. Use it for creator permission request workflows; use Rights Agreements when you need to manage agreement references and the media attached to them.

Open the media item from the Media Library and expand Rights Management. This panel shows the current rights status and the controls your team can use to manage the agreement attached to that asset.

The top of the panel summarises the current decision. For example, an approved item may show that publishing is allowed by a specific asset rights agreement, along with the allowed usage, blocked usage, territories, and expiry date.

Rights status shows whether the media can currently be published. If the status is Approved, Sauce has a rights record that allows publishing under the listed conditions.

Approved via shows the agreement or method that approved the media. Use this when you need to understand why a piece of media is considered rights-ready.

File URL lets your team attach or open the supporting agreement document. Use Open file to review the linked document, or paste a URL and choose Save file URL when you need to store a new agreement reference.

Use Select existing agreement or create new when the media should follow a saved rights agreement. Pick the relevant agreement from the dropdown, then add or update the supporting file URL if needed.

This is useful when multiple assets are covered by the same agreement, or when your team has a standard agreement type that should be reused across similar media.

Use Create new Ref. when the media needs a new agreement reference instead of an existing one. This helps your team keep a named record for the approval source attached to that asset.

After creating or selecting a reference, review the allowed usage settings before assuming the content is ready for every channel.

Use Mark as brand-owned when the content is owned by your brand, such as assets created by your internal team or content where your team already controls the relevant rights.

Only use this when you are confident the brand owns or controls the content. If the content came from a customer, creator, influencer, partner, or third-party account, use a rights agreement instead.

Use Edit allowed usage to define exactly where the media can and cannot be used. The selected options become the rules your team should check before approving content for a placement.

Selected options appear under Allowed. Unselected or blocked options appear under Not allowed. In the example shown in the Rights Management panel, External Syndication is not allowed while the other selected usage types are allowed.

Territories shows where the agreement applies. Use All territories only when the permission covers every market where the media may be used. If the agreement is limited to specific regions, record that limitation before publishing region-specific content.

Expires shows whether the agreement has an end date. No expiry means there is no expiry date recorded in Sauce. If your agreement has a time limit, set the expiry so your team knows when the media needs to be reviewed or removed.

Choose Save usage to apply usage, territory, and expiry changes. Choose Cancel to leave the current settings unchanged.

Use Block from publishing when the media should not be used, even if it has previously been approved or attached to an agreement.

This is useful when approval is missing, the agreement does not cover the intended channel, the content is no longer suitable, or your team needs to pause usage while it confirms the correct rights position.

Basic Mode gives your team the core controls needed to make a publishing decision: status, agreement reference, file URL, allowed usage, territories, expiry, brand-owned marking, and publishing block controls.

Use the summary at the top of the panel as the final check before publishing. It should clearly show that publishing is allowed, which agreement allows it, what usage is permitted, what usage is not permitted, which territories are covered, and whether the agreement expires.

Sauce helps you record, track, and manage rights approvals, but it does not replace your own legal review. If your team needs specific language, usage terms, exclusivity, paid creator terms, regional requirements, or campaign-specific permissions, check with your legal team before publishing the content.

If you want Sauce to check your content workflow, we can help review your setup, rights process, and gallery publishing flow so your team can use approved creator content with more confidence.