Music Tech Works launches a database to help identify rights holders for syncs
Summary
After some research, in 2019, they realised that there was no consolidated database of rights information, so they set out to build one, as part of the Project Music Accelerator in Nashville, TN.In 2020 Music Tech Works was part of the Google For Startups Founders Academy, and was awarded in October 2020 capital from the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund. The company also closed at the end of 2020 a round of funding from Collab Capital, an early-stage investment fund focused on start-ups by Black founders, which counts as partners hip hop artist Lecrae and Kapor Capital.rightsholder.io provides users a clear and complete way to search for publishing and master recording ownership information. In addition to ownership data, users can quickly identify past use data from shows, movies, and brands that have previously licensed a track as well as sample audio for each track in the database.We looked at syncs and we found that it was a group that was underserved, said Nobles, who is based in New Jersey and serves as CTO. You have the possibility to flag information, said Nobles, but we are not crowd-sourcing information.What weve done is to reduce the time needed for research, said Hines. Users pay a monthly fee and can access the database without limit, said Hines, who added that the company is now focused on developing its clients base.