Nine years ago, in a meeting room at Volvo Cars, Guy Fletcher, OBE (Chairman PRS for Music at the time), and Thor Pettersen argued what seemed unrealistic. They insisted that data was becoming the new oil and that collecting data from the dashboard would be a goldmine. I wish they had been wrong...
While you're unwrapping presents, we're wrapping music copyrights in Wyoming Series LLCs. Think of it as the blockchain equivalent of a cozy sweater for your copyrights, legally compliant, surprisingly warm, and it actually fits.
On December 21st 2025, the leak of 300 terabytes of Spotify audio and 256 million rows of metadata exposed the fragility of today’s streaming infrastructure. It will force the music industry to confront the need for accurate, transparent, technically robust royalties distribution.
As 2025 draws to a close, the infrastructure is built, the production is live in closed beta groups (regulatory acceptance pending), and the path forward is clear...
As you know, NIM has been collecting deep analytic data on AI and copyright for years now. This work took a commercial turn in January 2025, and we have been building the payments layer on top of the previously free offering to creators. However, NIM still offers a lot for free! ENJOY!
The gap between content creation and compensation has widened as AI companies use billions of articles for training without compensating creators. CopyrightChains closes this gap by automatically registering published work on the blockchain and enabling direct licensing payments to content owners.
Thanks for the feedback, I understand this is an unknown minefield for most people, so we have made a online demo site showing some of the 768 pointers we use.
During November 2025 closed-beta operations, security-focused participants identified a critical prompt-injection vulnerability in our fraud detection architecture that could allow sophisticated attackers to manipulate royalty flows.
The current music landscape is characterized by speed. A track can go from obscurity to tens of millions of views in just days. While that attention is genuine, the income received by rights holders and investors often remains surprisingly low and slow.
Marketing
In today's market, most viral moments are badly monetized. A track can explode on TikTok, flood feeds for two weeks, and then disappear, leaving creators and rights investors with little more than screenshots and a modest bump in streams. The attention is real, the money is not.
Promotion
While you optimize for Spotify, fans ask AI for recommendations. It's not about playlist curators or algorithm tweaks any longer. When someone asks ChatGPT, "Who are some independent artists I should check out?" the response determines who gets heard and who remains invisible.
News
Believing without confirming, accepting without verifying, assuming without proving. Digital content operates on faith-based systems in which platforms trust that uploads are authentic, consumers believe content origins are accurate, and creators assume usage tracking is complete.