Music Tech Works launches a bulk song data research service

By Emmanuel Legrand 

Atlanta-based Music Tech Works has introduced, via its title research tool rightsholder.io, a new bulk song data research service, allowing companies to access larger quantities of song ownership information for licensing, registration research and catalogue insights.

  Rightsholder.io is a music copyright research platform with an expansive library that connects those who want to license music with the rights holders that can grant them a license. Music Tech Works claim that rightsholder.io saves commercial clients "countless hours of human research work, allowing them to focus on their core business strengths rather than cross-referencing databases."

  Bryson Nobles, Co-Founder and CTO at Music Tech Works said that while they were developing their individual title research tool, they realised there was a need for large-scale delivery of accurate song data, rights, registration, and usage information for clearances, business intelligence, or data maintenance. 

Ideal for clients licensing hundreds of tracks

  "These include production companies, advertising agencies, catalogue investors, streaming media firms, and more," said Nobles. "They can send us a simple CSV file, and we can match and return an updated, cross-referenced, and validated file in a fraction of the time it would take to handle manually."

  Music clearance specialist Deborah Mannis-Gardner, founder of DMG Music, said the Rightsholder tool developed by Music Tech Works is ideal for her clients "that need licensing for hundreds, sometimes thousands of tracks for a project.”

  She added, “Rightsholder’s bulk process saved my team so much time in looking up the track, writer, label, and publisher information, along with all the associated ID numbers. They could then focus on the few discrepancies and rights clearances, so we could deliver a complete music rights package for our client.”