Why the Music Industry Turns to RoyaltyAmp to Protect and Collect
RoyaltyAmp offers both fully-managed and one-off protection and collection services
Protect
Safeguarding your music, rights, and earnings are as important as creating it. The rapid expansion in content distribution has created the wild west of fraud and infringement. Music’s ecosystem is riddled with sampling, unpaid streams, unauthorized use, modified speeds, fraudulent ownership claims.
Anyone that doesn’t have a team of specialists regularly checking and protecting their catalog is absolutely bleeding royalties.
Pre-Release Infringement Scan
It is more important than ever for labels to forensically scan every new release before distributing it. In addition to “traditional” sampling, we detect modified speeds and melodies, even deep-fake AI.
Unauthorized Sampling Monitoring
We scan major music platforms for unlicensed samples and unauthorized derivative works for our clients. Our team’s results have led to detections, takedowns, settlements, licenses and recovered royalties.
Detect Fraudulent Ownership Claims
Millions in royalties are paid every year to parties fraudulently claiming to be the artist, songwriter, label, or publisher. We are able to scan rights databases globally to locate instances of fraudulent claims on client catalogs.
Unpaid Social Media Use
We track and claim client music across dozens of social media and content sharing sites including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. Too often, a catalog’s royalties go unpaid or paid to the wrong party.
Scans for Unauthorized Sync Use
A staggering amount of music used in television, video, film, advertising, and gaming is not properly licensed. RoyaltyAmp will scan and audit all sources of media for unauthorized and unlicensed catalog use.
Asset Lineage and Use Audits
While most catalog transactions go through a copyright chain-of-custody audit, some buyers fail to perform the critical Asset Lineage and Use Audit. These audits identify what other music contains recording and composition sampling, licensed or not.
Collect
Royalty Payment Auditing
Sadly, every catalog is leaking royalties somewhere. The key is locating where that is and correcting it as quickly as possible. Regular royalty audits are a must for every rights owner and administrator. RoyaltyAmp audits utilize a proprietary cross-reference proxy program to quickly identify where errors and omissions exist across digital assets, platforms, and territories.
Rights Assertions and Collections
Once we’ve identified where others have fraudulently claimed and collected a client’s royalties, we work with legal teams to assert the rights of our clients and collect their deserved earnings. In some cases, clients want to use their own legal teams, other clients elect RoyaltyAmp to steward the legal process with its preferred counsel choices. Either way, we work hard to see clients get the royalties they’ve earned.
Global Registration and Collections
Collecting all of a catalog’s royalties requires a team. Once the initial catalog registration is complete, the work really begins. At that point the registration must be accurately disseminated, monitored and updated across thousands of royalty and revenue sources globally. RoyaltyAmp’s clients have been the beneficiaries of up to a 400% INCREASE IN ROYALTIES.
Collecting royalties, license revenue and other earnings is time consuming and requires a complete understanding of global music rights, registrations, attribution, and administration. The majors deploy hundreds of people globally to ensure every song is properly registered and collected on.
RoyaltyAmp has assembled a team of experts in all facets of music rights, licensing, royalties, and collections management. Our client’s know our team is working on their behalf and treating their catalog as if it were their very own.