Rights Management & Royalties

Huephonic is a B2B audiomarketing and sonic branding platform that provides customized music curation and sound experiences for commercial environments. The platform serves multiple industries including retail, hospitality, healthcare, fashion, and corporate sectors, delivering brand-aligned audio programming and ambient soundscapes. Operating from Barcelona, it focuses on leveraging sound as a marketing tool and enhancing customer experiences through professionally curated audio environments.

BMAT is a music technology platform that provides rights management and music monitoring infrastructure for the global music industry. Using proprietary audio fingerprinting technology, it identifies and tracks music usage across TV, radio, streaming platforms, and public venues, processing 27 billion music matches daily. The platform manages data for 320 million sound recordings and 130 million musical works, facilitating approximately $2 billion in annual royalty distributions. BMAT serves publishers, labels, collecting societies, broadcasters, and digital service providers with automated reporting and metadata management tools.

Auditio is a platform designed to monitor offline music usage in retail, hospitality, and music venues, collecting music data and reporting it to collective management organisations for royalty distribution. The platform also provides music insights and recommendations—such as charts, playlists, and DJ sets—to help venues optimise their music usage. It aims to increase compliance with music licensing regulations and improve the fairness and sustainability of royalty distribution. The project is a joint initiative between BMAT, Dengun, and MusicMagnet, co-funded through the Eurostars-3 programme and the European Union's Horizon Europe.

Claimy is an AI-powered music rights administration platform that helps publishers, labels, and rights holders maximize catalog value by automatically identifying missing royalties and generating claims to recover them. The platform uses machine learning to audit catalogs, enrich metadata, detect discrepancies in PRO payment reports, and forecast revenue in real-time. It addresses the music industry's problem of unclaimed royalties by automating the traditionally manual process of tracking and claiming missing payments across multiple territories and distribution channels.

FANPLAYMUSIC is a dual-platform system designed to serve the entire music business ecosystem. The first platform functions as a marketplace connecting all stakeholders in the music industry, from artists and venues to labels and fans. The second platform enables tokenization of artistic projects, allowing creators to fund and develop their work independently of the traditional music industry. Both platforms are described as interconnected and aimed at a global audience, with current headquarters in Barcelona.

Sonorus SoundScaping SL is a Barcelona-based company founded in 2025, specializing in professional sound environment management for public and collective spaces. The company offers services including audio marketing consultancy, public communication rights management, technical sound and acoustic projects for spaces, and wellness-focused sound initiatives. Sonorus operates as a collaborative ecosystem partner working with music and tech companies, acoustic professionals, professional audio equipment manufacturers, health experts, architects, and public administrations.

Paisatge Sonor de Barcelona/Catalunya is a strategic initiative driven by the company Sonorus, with support from APECAT, aimed at transforming Barcelona and Catalonia's sonic landscape by promoting locally produced music—especially in Catalan—in ambient music settings for both local and visiting audiences. The project seeks to reinforce Catalan linguistic and cultural identity through curated soundscaping that bypasses algorithmic control. It also focuses on fair artist remuneration, personalized sonic experiences, and strengthening the Catalunya brand internationally.

MusicAdders is a digital music distribution and monetization platform that positions itself as 'The Honest Aggregator,' offering transparent revenue sharing for artists, labels, and distributors. The platform provides direct distribution to major streaming services, playlist pitching, blockchain-based copyright management, and a proprietary catalog migration tool (MusicAdders Choice™). It targets primarily Spanish and Latin American markets, with notable clients including Mediaset and a roster of artists with significant streaming audiences.

OMD² (Open Music Database for Discoverability) is an open database initiative focused on improving the discoverability of music content through structured metadata. The project aims to address metadata gaps, rights information fragmentation, and catalogue accessibility challenges in the global music industry. It targets stakeholders such as streaming platforms, distributors, labels, publishers, researchers, and developers, and operates under open data principles to enable broad access and integration.