Rights management platform MusicInfra has sealed a strategic partnership with independent US music publisher The Royalty Network, focused on pairing rights holder metadata with scaled industry-wide metadata “to ensure maximum revenue collection for songwriters.”   Through the partnership, MusicInfra will pair its proprietary backend technological infrastructure and its team’s experience in building and handling YouTube’s Content Management System with The Royalty Network’s catalogue of over 800,...

Financing platform Pipeline Advance Co. has acquired the core assets and intellectual property of valuation company Clarty Partners, bringing Clarty’s proprietary valuation technology, royalty ingestion systems, and analytical infrastructure into Pipeline’s system. The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, excludes “any proprietary client data or confidential information relating to Clarty’s past projects.” Pipeline said the new acquisition will “significantly enhancing its underwriting a...

Paris-based music streaming and download platform Qobuz has deployed its proprietary AI detection system alongside new tools that will identify and tag AI-created content across both new releases and its existing catalogue. Qobuz said these additions were in line with its AI Charter, published in February, and represent “concrete steps to protect artists and listeners from AI-generated content.” Using a new, proprietary tool, Qobuz has started analyzing its catalogue to identify and tag content ...