Creating a product that just works is hard. Keeping it that way means confronting drag, drift and sprawl.
Where music rights, data, and revenue meet.
Practical analysis for independent labels and music companies navigating royalty systems, contracts, and the data between them.
Whose Song Is It Anyway?
Spotify’s upcoming AI remix tool could give familiar music a new life. What happens to artists’ creative control when making another version becomes part of everyday listening?
Why Music Rights Are Complex—and Why That Matters for Technology
Creating and distributing music is easier. Documenting and administering the resulting interests is not. Sarah Abeson explores why that gap matters for technology.
One Song, Many Systems: The Backend Engineering Behind Music Data
Reliable music data takes more than one database. Najeeb Idrees explains how identity, provenance, and time connect ownership, usage, and revenue.
Streams Steady but Royalties Down? How Labels Can Check Payments
Steady streams don’t always mean steady royalty payments. Learn how labels can compare listening data, reported earnings, contract terms, and cash received.
From the Session to the Statement
An artist should be able to understand what they agreed to and follow it through to what they were paid.
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.