Switchchord

With nearly 100,000 songs uploaded to streaming platforms each day, music publishers are still receiving song ownership and metadata from their songwriters via texts and emails and then manually entering this data into their systems. Very often, these texts and emails are incomplete or incorrect, which leads to difficulties with copyright registration, missed licensing opportunities, and costly legal disputes. Downstream music supply chain participants often need the same data in different data formats, adding more delays and errors to the process. Switchchord’s identity-based legal workflows provide a simple process for songwriters to accurately document song ownership and metadata, which is automatically delivered to music publishers for ingestion into their internal systems. Our flexible data models allow this data to be populated into copyright registration and licensing processes.