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Catalogue Migration & Data Projects
End-to-end restructuring and preparation of large-scale repertoires for ingestion.
Turn copyright data into royalty confidence.
Helping music publishers scale catalogue operations, reduce royalty leakage and recover unmatched income through specialist copyright data management and rights assurance services.
The data chain
How copyright data impacts royalty collection
Every royalty distribution relies on accurate rights data moving through multiple systems. Ownership discrepancies, missing identifiers and matching failures can prevent royalties from reaching the correct rightsholders.
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Catalogue ingestion
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Society database
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Usage matching
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Royalty distribution
Services
We provide specialist support across the copyright data lifecycle.
Our services include:
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Copyright Data Assurance
Systematic validation of registrations, identifiers and ownership data across society and affiliate databases.
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Revenue Recovery
Identifying and resolving unmatched income, suspense balances and ownership gaps.
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Rights Protection
Support for sample disputes and copyright infringement matters through evidence gathering, rights analysis and engagement with legal teams.
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Strategic Copyright Operations Support
Operational advice covering process improvements, rights workflows and digital licensing strategy.
We work with:Music publishersRights administratorsCatalogue owners
Technology-enabled operations
Complex rights data, prepared for confident ingestion.
Large-scale repertoire datasets are impractical to process manually. Terera leverages advanced data manipulation to restructure complex datasets into ingestion-ready formats, reducing manual effort and accelerating catalogue onboarding.
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Design
Scalable onboarding & catalogue restructuring
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Implement
Rights data validation controls & workflows
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Deliver
Ingestion-ready formats for proprietary systems
Revenue recovery & rights protection
Find the gaps. Resolve the conflicts. Protect the work.
Unmatched royalties
Investigate unmatched royalties, suspense income and allocation discrepancies through detailed metadata analysis and society liaison.
Repertoire matching
Resolve matching issues by validating distribution files against ISRCs, ISWCs, writer information and society records.
Dispute support
Support sample disputes and copyright infringement matters through evidence gathering, rights analysis and engagement with legal teams.
Strategic support
Strategic copyright operations support
Recommend and support strategic rights administration changes based on developments within the digital licensing landscape, improving collection efficiency and long-term catalogue administration outcomes.
Key past projects
Copyright Integrity Maintained at Scale
Works restructured
Catalogues prepared and ready for system ingestion
ISWCs & ISRCs validated
Imported and reconciled across society databases
Copyright infringements resolved
Copyright conflicts settled with retrospective payments and ownership recognition
Registration quality improved
Catalogue designs reduced rejection rates and improved society acceptance
Suspense income released
Metadata remediation unlocked previously trapped royalty income
Experience & industry knowledge
Deep operational experience across major publishers, independents and CMOs.
Society and partner liaison experience
PRS · ICE · SACEM · IMPELVistex · Global Affiliate Offices
Catalogue Ingestion Coordinator, Global Copyright Department
Former Copyright Administrator
Why partner with Terera
Expert capacity for better catalogue outcomes
Scale catalogue operations
Onboard more catalogues or improve existing ones with confidence that data integrity is safeguarded.
Strengthen rights protection
Protect creators' works from unlicensed use, getting them paid accurately and fairly.
Reduce operational risk
Proactive controls communicated to your partners prevent revenue leakage before it occurs.
Accelerate royalty matching
Faster, more accurate data means faster distributions.
Scale without headcount
Flexible, expert capacity that grows with your catalogue.
Contact Terera for a free consultation on your specific catalogue issues.