The XML snippet below specifies that you have worldwide ownership of an asset. It includes an empty <ownership> tag. This ownership data must then be associated with an asset, using a relationship to actually assign ownership of the asset to the feed provider.

   <ownership/>

If you do not own an asset worldwide, you need to define rules that identify the territories where you do have ownership. You can identify the territories in which you own the asset or the territories in which you don’t own the asset.

Example 1: You own an asset in the United States and Canada.

   <ownership>
      <owner>
        <rule percentage="100">
          <condition restriction="include" type="territory">US CA
        
      
    

Example 2: You own an asset everywhere except Japan.

    <ownership>
      <owner>
        <rule percentage="100">
          <condition restriction="exclude" type="territory">JP
        
      
    

You remove ownership from an asset by providing a new <ownership> tag with its ownership percentage set to 0 and associating it with the asset using a <relationship> tag. Setting the ownership to 0 removes the asset ownership in all territories.

  
  <ownership tag="noownershipww">
    <owner>
      <rule percentage="0">
        <condition restriction="exclude" type="territory"/>
      
    
  
  <relationship type="associate">
    <item path="/external/asset[@id='ASSET_ID']"/>
    <related_item path="/feed/ownership[@tag='noownershipww']"/>
  

The following examples demonstrate how to specify ownership data for compositions that you do not own or administer. In these cases, the <owner> tag uses the type attribute to indicate that the named owner is a publisher that needs to be mapped to a content owner. In addition, the <owner> tag uses the name attribute to specify the publisher's name.

Example 1: A single publisher owns the composition worldwide.

    <ownership>
      <owner type="publisher" name="XYZ Publishing">
        <rule percentage="100">
          <condition restriction="exclude" type="territory"/>
        
      
    

Example 2: Several publishers share ownership of a composition.

This example shows ownership data for a composition that is entirely owned by one publisher in the United States but owned by three different publishers in the rest of the world:

    <ownership>
      <owner type="publisher" name="XYZ Publishing">
        <rule percentage="100">
          <condition restriction="include" type="territory">US
        
      
      <owner type="publisher" name="XYZ Publishing">
        <rule percentage="50">
          <condition restriction="exclude" type="territory">US
        
      
      <owner type="publisher" name="ABC Publishing">
        <rule percentage="25">
          <condition restriction="exclude" type="territory">US
        
      
      <owner type="publisher" name="DEF Publishing">
        <rule percentage="25">
          <condition restriction="exclude" type="territory">US
        
      
    

A common use case is where you partially own and administer a composition, which a third-party publisher also partially owns and administers. In these cases, the <ownership> tag contains multiple <owner> tags, each of which provides information about a different owner of the composition.

The example below demonstrates how to provide ownership for a composition if you own and administer 67 percent of the composition and another publisher owns and administers the other 33 percent of the composition.

   <ownership>
      
      <owner>
        <rule percentage="67">
          <condition restriction="exclude" type="territory"/>
        
      

      
      <owner name="Andy the Publisher - Foo" type="publisher">
        <rule percentage="33">
          <condition restriction="include" type="territory">US CA
        
      
    

In this example, you are the first listed owner, and the <owner> tag specifies your content owner name. The other publisher's content owner name is unknown, so the second <owner> tag's type attribute is set to publisher rather than the default value (partner), and the name attribute does not need to contain a content owner name but can instead contain any string value. YouTube will then try to determine whether it has a deal in place directly with that publisher or with an administrative publisher or collection society that represents that publisher.

Another common use case for composition ownership is where you own specific publishing rights for the composition or even that you own a percentage of one or more publishing rights. Again, you can also identify owners of other publishing rights or the owners of the remaining percentage of partially owned publishing rights.

The example below indicates that you own sync rights worldwide and also own lyric, mechanical, and performance rights in the United States and Canada. In this example, both <owner> tags identify you.

    <ownership>
      
      <owner sync="true">
        <rule>
          <condition restriction="exclude" type="territory"/>
        
      

      
      <owner lyric="true" mechanical="true" performance="true">
        <rule>
          <condition restriction="include" type="territory">US CA
        
      
    

The next example indicates that you own sync rights worldwide and also owns 50 percent of mechanical and performance rights worldwide. It also identifies another publisher that owns the remaining 50 percent of the mechanical and performance rights. In this example, the first two <owner> tags identify you, and the third <owner> tag identifies the other publisher.

 <ownership>
      
      <owner sync="true">
        <rule>
          <condition restriction="exclude" type="territory"/>
        
      

      
      <owner mechanical="true" performance="true">
        <rule percentage="50">
          <condition restriction="exclude" type="territory"/>
        
      

      
      <owner mechanical="true" performance="true">
        <rule percentage="50">
          <condition restriction="exclude" type="territory"/>