Music Rights Services

Full administrative support for A&R operations — ensuring that every deal, contract, and creative project is properly documented, tracked, and executed. We bridge the gap between creative development and business administration with expert project management skills.

• Artist deal memo drafting and tracking, ensuring key items are captured during negotiations.
• Assisting your legal teams to bring together all the requirements and remain in compliance.
• Session musician and side talent agreement tracking, from WFH to royalty bearing deals.
• Artist onboarding and rights clearance checklists - ensuring your legal teams cover all the bases.
• Creative project documentation and milestone tracking, project management and planning.
• Budget tracking and advance recoupment monitoring, project expense tracking.

End-to-end administration of your music catalog and precise metadata management — from acquisition and organization to licensing, exploitation, and long-term asset protection. Whether you're managing 10 songs or 10,000, our systems ensure nothing falls through the cracks.

• Catalog acquisition due diligence and valuation support.
• Comprehensive catalog audits and gap analysis addressed with internal reviews.
• Works registration preparation for CWR requirements.
• Licensing pipeline management and deal tracking at every stage of the negotiations.
• Catalog exploitation strategy and revenue optimization.
• Legacy catalog restoration and documentation, ensuring precise metadata with accurate data.

Accurate, complete label copy is the foundation of proper rights attribution and royalty collection. We help manage, compile, and deliver publication-ready label copy for physical and digital releases — ensuring every songwriter, producer, publisher, and rights holder is correctly credited across all formats and territories.

• Full label copy research and compilation, accurately prepared for delivery and publication.
• Songwriter, producer, and publisher credit verification with accurate splits.
• Publishing, sub-publishing information and recording rights holder details.
• ISRC, UPC and catalog number assignment, including any spin off release codes.
• Liner notes, digital booklet and lyric copy preparation.
• Multi-territory and multi-language label copy production options.

We handle comprehensive registration of musical works and sound recordings with copyright offices and collection societies worldwide. From single-track filings to bulk CWR catalog registrations across multiple territories, we ensure every composition and master recording is properly documented, timestamped, and legally protected under applicable international copyright law.

• U.S. Copyright Office registrations (Form PA, Form SR).
• Dispute resolutions and policing potential infringements.
• Bulk CWR catalog registrations with the MLC, PROs, HFA and other platforms.
• Co-writer and split sheet verification and auditing for registration accuracy.
• Ownership documentation and chain-of-title review.
• SoundExchange Registrations.

Expert processing of mechanical licenses for physical, digital, and streaming uses. We handle compulsory licenses NOI, direct licensing deals, and Harry Fox Agency administration — ensuring every reproduction of your compositions generates the royalties it's owed and collecting licenses for any writers who's works have been used in your recordings.

• Compulsory NOI mechanical license processing.
• Issuing mechanical licenses.
• Harry Fox Agency (HFA) administration.
• Policing releases by others using your works.
• Direct mechanical license clearances.
• Mechanical royalty collection and auditing.

Strategic music distribution consulting and administration — ensuring your releases reach every platform with correct metadata, rights splits, and clearances in place. We advise on distribution strategy and manage the administrative layer that makes distribution work.

• Distribution partner selection and strategy.
• Release metadata preparation and QC.
• Rights clearance verification pre-release.
• Revenue split configuration and verification.
• Territory-specific distribution management.
• Post-release reporting and revenue reconciliation.

Accurate royalty accounting, calculation, and statement generation for publishers, labels, artists, producers, co-writers and all rights holders. We process all revenue streams and produce clear, auditable statements, using industry standard royalty production software.

• Multi-stream royalty calculation (physical and digital sales, mechanical, performance, sync etc)
• Familiar with all industry standard software so we can use your accounts to run royalty statements.
• Label and publisher accounting royalty reports, cyclical cadence that fits your contractual needs
• We also have accounts with software to run reports if clients do not have their own software.
• Royalty audit support and discrepancy resolution, advance, expense and income administration.
• Support for onboarding and offboarding from one royalty accounting system to another.

Holistic rights and project management across all revenue streams and territories. From synchronization and performance rights to print, neighboring rights, and emerging digital — we ensure your intellectual property is protected and monetized everywhere it has value.

• Rights management advice for different licenses.
• Advice for unique and different rights usages.
• International partnership advice for best results.
• Emerging rights (AI, NFT, Metaverse).
• Project management for special projects and custom requests.
• Rights, clearance and royalty impact on unique business ideas.