by Courtnay Moriarty | Jan 13, 2026 | RIGHTSHOLDERS
Social media content relies heavily on music, so creators, influencers, and even commercial brands have turned to production music libraries for help crafting engaging posts. For production libraries this means many individual accounts licensing music for different...
by Larry Mills | Sep 10, 2025 | RIGHTSHOLDERS, TECHNOLOGY
As rightsholders continually find new ways to identify music online, uploaders keep finding new ways to transform copyrighted content and evade detection. That’s why it’s important to adapt technology to solve ever-evolving issues, and why we’ve just released our...
by Larry Mills | May 28, 2025 | RIGHTSHOLDERS
Since there’s been an increase in copyright lawsuits against major brands, we decided to see what commercial music use looks like across different industries. Recently, we analyzed over 19k social media posts from 10 top beauty brands and found that 25% of beauty...
by Oli Mottola | Mar 20, 2025 | COLLECTION SOCIETIES, RIGHTSHOLDERS
In an ever-evolving digital landscape, collection management societies (CMOs) face unique challenges in ensuring proper rights management and maximizing revenue from music usage. Consumer appetite for creating derivative works online has been increasing steadily,...
by Jaclyn Petrovich | Mar 6, 2025 | BRANDS, RIGHTSHOLDERS
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but music licensing isn’t subjective. When it comes to adding music to social media posts as a brand, every upload must be licensed for commercial use, or the brand could be liable for copyright infringement. We’ve been paying...
by Courtnay Moriarty | Feb 10, 2025 | RIGHTSHOLDERS, TIKTOK
Greetings from the transitional space between TikTok existing and TikTok being banned in the US. Right now, TikTok is available, which means we’re analyzing Sound IDs on the platform to help rightsholders get paid. If you missed our last Sound ID piece where we showed...
