The Black Box
Unclaimed black box royalties
Across the world, billions in royalties are collected by PROs, societies, and DSPs for music that can't be matched to its rightful owners. Every minute it goes unclaimed, it's eventually paid out by marketshare, to the majors. The rich get richer. The creators who made it get nothing.
The Problem
When a PRO or society can't identify who owns a song, the money goes into a "black box." After a holding period, it's distributed out by marketshare, meaning the largest rights holders get the largest share, regardless of whether the music was actually theirs.
The songs you wrote, the records you played on, the streams you earned. All quietly funding the majors.
The Solution
Muserk's patented administration platform finds the usages the black box is built on, and matches them to your catalog.
A lot of the black box is US-focused. But cleaning it up lets us clean up the ex-US picture faster and more effectively than any traditional administrator.
Our systems scan unmatched usage data across territories and societies to locate the plays nobody claimed.
Our patented matching engine correlates those usages against your works, with precision the black box can't.
We file the claims, recover the royalties, and route them to you. Money that was lost becomes money in your account.
more royalties collected
Our clients see an average 57% uplift in collected royalties, because of our patented administration system. Money that was sitting in the black box, now in their accounts.
57% reflects the average increase in royalty collections for Muserk clients over three years. Individual results vary.
A decade in the making
We've spent a decade building and proving these systems for major catalogs. Now that same patented infrastructure is available to publishers, platforms, and catalogs where we can be mandated as the exclusive administrator for their territories and rights types.
One platform. 60+ territories and the societies within them. Streams, spins, and syncs, matched, claimed, and collected.
Years building
Territories
Tell us about your catalog and we'll show you what's sitting in the black box.