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Muserk's Business

The Challenge

The global recording and music publishing industries generated $38.2B in 2019. 97.6% of these industries’ revenue is generated from multiple copyright royalty streams fragmented by rights types, mediums, platforms, and licensing arrangements. These royalty streams are subject to the business practices, copyright laws, and capabilities of local markets. Constantly emerging music platforms create new royalty streams with new licensing schemes, which adds complexities to an already-complex industry.

Muserk’s Advantage

 

Exploiting copyrights across mediums, rights types, and territories in modern day requires robust and innovative technology to service the digital arena which accounts for over 60% of royalties in the recording industry. Additionally, managing data and accounting for the remaining 40% of royalties and revenues require the ability to handle massive amounts of information from many sources. Muserk scaled infrastructure and automated processes makes servicing the entire supply and royalty chain more obtainable for anyone who owns a copyright.

Muserk has developed proven solutions for copyright holders that handle the most complex problems presented by the industry today. Muserk’s success in the mechanical and YouTube royalty segments, with its tech-forward solutions, has solved many problems that reach across the entire industry. Though the music industry has been in existence for centuries, its ability to adapt to new technologies and consumption models has lagged behind. Muserk is positioned for success with a redeployment of core technology into other rights verticals.

Publishing Administration Services

  • Digital licensing: The most complicated licensing landscape is digital (ie. Spotify, Apple, YouTube). Muserk provides data pipelines to all major, global music platforms so copyright holders can monetize their musical works.
  • Performance Rights: License rights associated with broadcasting and live/background which accounts for ~80% of all royalties
  • Rights Management: Manage who consumes which work across the world. Insure no other parties collect a rights holder’s rightful royalties
  • Sync Licensing: Field inbound licensing, and potentially setup outbound sales efforts, to procure sync placements for rights holders
  • Global Royalty Collection: Collection of all royalties generated around the globe through optimized streams with minimum intermediaries
  • Accounting & Payments: Leverage technology to provide fast payments to clients while also offering accounting tools to then so they may better service their writer rosters
  • Analytics & Insights: Provide actionable insights and visualizations of massive amounts of data so copyright holders may develop strategies around further exploitation of their catalogs

Recorded Music Services

  • Digital Distribution: Providing pipelines to all major, global music platforms so copyright holders can monetize their master recordings
  • Rights Management: Manage who consumes, which sound recordings and where across the world
  • Neighboring Rights: License rights associated with broadcasting sound recordings (ie. $3B performance right vertical)
  • Global Royalty Collection: Collection of all royalties generated around the globe through optimized streams with minimum intermediaries
  • Accounting & Payments: Leverage technology to provide fast payments to clients while also offering accounting tools to then so they may better service their rosters
  • Licensing & Clearances: Provide copyright services to labels and artists to properly license musical works for their recordings
  • Analytics & Insights: Provide actionable insights and visualizations of massive amounts of data so copyright holders may develop strategies around further exploitation of their catalogs

We’re excited to see what services we can provide for you!