An artist should be able to understand what they agreed to and follow it through to what they were paid.
Where music rights, data, and revenue meet.
Practical analysis for independent labels and music companies navigating royalty systems, contracts, and the data between them.
AI Music Deals Promise Compensation. Artists Need the Right to Check.
The next test for AI music licensing is whether artists can follow the money from the permission they grant to the payment they receive.
Royalties and Catalog Valuation: Jermaine Dupri's Big Problem
The Jermaine Dupri and Sony dispute illustrates how a royalty-accounting question becomes a catalog-valuation question, and what buyers and sellers should check before it does.
Blockchain Won't Rewrite Streaming Royalty Rates. It Could Change the Evidence Beneath Them.
Statutory royalty rates are established by law, not technology. But every rate depends on ownership, usage, revenue, and payment data.
The Five Places Your Music Revenue Goes Missing, and How to Find It
Missing money does not announce itself. Five recurring failures can leave substantial music revenue uncollected, and each one leaves a trail.