We evaluate your product positioning, pricing models, and user experience to help you define how music enhances your business model, whether as a core offering or a value-add feature.
Music Licensing Advisory for Digital Service Providers
Music is a powerful asset for digital platforms, driving engagement, brand recognition, and user retention. Whether music is the core of your business, like an audio or video streaming service, or an enhancement to your offering, securing the right licenses is essential to legal compliance, cost control, and long-term scalability.
At Music Foundry, we help businesses navigate the complexities of music licensing, ensuring that your product integrates music efficiently while optimising both costs and commercial terms.
Our expertise spans strategic rights acquisition, deal structuring, financial modelling, and long-term operational support, giving you everything needed to license music efficiently and profitably.
How we help businesses licensing music
Pre-Licensing Strategy
Assessing Licensing Requirements & Cost Implications
We apply our knowledge of different licensing strategies and their financial impact to determine the most effective licensing solution for your business. We help you balance music benefit with music cost.
Securing Licensing Deals with Rightsholders
Negotiating Music Licensing Agreements
We prepare business cases that propose deal terms with supporting logic. Our experience of negotiating with major rightsholders and key decision makers gives us specialist insight into how to bridge your requirements with theirs.
Integrating Compliant Services to Meet Deal Terms
We ensure your compliance with complex rights management terms, royalty reporting requirements and data-sharing obligations. We advise on digital rights management (DRM) standards, and how to navigate AI-use regulations. We will bring in third-party providers to support specific copyright management use cases, such as content ID.
Legal & Financial Expertise
Advising from Headline Deal Terms to Long-Form Agreements
We provide comprehensive legal insight on master rights, music publishing, and CMO licensing across multiple territories. We do this right through from advising on tactical approach, through headline deal terms to execution of long-form agreements.
Maximising Cost-Benefit for Investor Approval
We structure licensing agreements that meet your business needs and those of your investors paying particular attention to profitability and cash flow as we support you to build long-term value. We understand investor requirements and we are mindful of protecting exit options.
Long-Term Operational Support
Managing Ongoing Contracts
We provide ongoing support with contractual obligations, including payment schedules, monitoring recoupment position, deal expiry tracking, take-down requests and escalation management.
Reporting to Rightsholders
We implement automated royalty and data reporting to simplify data sharing with rightsholders and reduce your administrative burden.
Building Internal Licensing Expertise
We help businesses develop in-house rights management capabilities through training, knowledge transfer, and strategic guidance.
