Most creators skip music rights registration because the systems are too complicated, leaving songwriters and producers unpaid. Deborah, who's represented artists for decades, confirms many contributors get only an advance and nothing after. A new company aims to fix this by making rights registration actually work.
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that it's so hard that most creators, even at a very advanced level, don't do the right registrations because these are not easy systems to interface with. And a lot is back to what you said, Bryson, is manual, and meaning that a lot of registrations are missing, meaning that the money that has been generated can't flow to the right people. So Deborah and I were conversing. She'd seen over decades too, representing artists, you know, songwriters, producers, musicians getting sampled in that a lot of people don't have the rights properly represented. You know, you might have produced part of a big recording and you have a couple of percentage points, but you never see any money beyond the advance, right? So the idea started to form that maybe we can start, you know, a company to be a home, an active home, modern home, a good home for music rights, and work very selectively around this. So last we decided to start it off.