SERVICE - MUSIC RIGHTS RECOVERY
Music Rights Recovery
Music Rights Recovery
Music Rights Recovery
SERVICE - MUSIC RIGHTS RECOVERY
Commercial use of your catalogue, turned into recovered value.
Commercial use of your catalogue, turned into recovered value.
Commercial use of your catalogue, turned into recovered value.
For labels, publishers and rights holders: we identify unauthorised commercial use of your recordings and compositions in brand content, build the evidence, and manage each case to a commercial result.
Rights teams can increasingly see where music is used online. But visibility creates volume: every potential case still needs to be checked, validated, evidenced, rights-mapped, valued and progressed. Legal, sync and business affairs teams cannot review thousands of posts, strip out false positives and build evidence packs from scratch, and they shouldn't have to.
Trakr closes that operational gap. We take on the recovery workflow end to end, so your team reviews decisions, not spreadsheets.
What we do
What we do
Detection
Commercial use of your repertoire identified across brand, agency and creator content - including historic use that was never visible in real time.
Detection
Commercial use of your repertoire identified across brand, agency and creator content - including historic use that was never visible in real time.
Detection
Commercial use of your repertoire identified across brand, agency and creator content - including historic use that was never visible in real time.
Validation
Every match confirmed, rights information reviewed, commercial context assessed so that you never see the noise.
Validation
Every match confirmed, rights information reviewed, commercial context assessed so that you never see the noise.
Validation
Every match confirmed, rights information reviewed, commercial context assessed so that you never see the noise.
Evidence
Post links, screenshots, timestamps, metadata, engagement and usage history preserved in structured evidence packs, ready for review.
Evidence
Post links, screenshots, timestamps, metadata, engagement and usage history preserved in structured evidence packs, ready for review.
Evidence
Post links, screenshots, timestamps, metadata, engagement and usage history preserved in structured evidence packs, ready for review.
Value assessment
Licence context, exposure, commercial value and likely recoverability weighed so effort goes where there is a meaningful opportunity.
Value assessment
Licence context, exposure, commercial value and likely recoverability weighed so effort goes where there is a meaningful opportunity.
Value assessment
Licence context, exposure, commercial value and likely recoverability weighed so effort goes where there is a meaningful opportunity.
Recovery management
Priority cases managed toward licensing, settlement or commercial resolution: strategy, coordination, commercial positioning, outreach and follow-up.
Recovery management
Priority cases managed toward licensing, settlement or commercial resolution: strategy, coordination, commercial positioning, outreach and follow-up.
Recovery management
Priority cases managed toward licensing, settlement or commercial resolution: strategy, coordination, commercial positioning, outreach and follow-up.
What does it cost?
Nothing unless we recover. We work purely on contingency — no monthly fee, no platform fee, no retainer. You pick the brand, we run the claim end to end, and we are paid out of what we recover. If we recover nothing, you pay nothing.
Nothing unless we recover. We work purely on contingency — no monthly fee, no platform fee, no retainer. You pick the brand, we run the claim end to end, and we are paid out of what we recover. If we recover nothing, you pay nothing.
Nothing unless we recover. We work purely on contingency — no monthly fee, no platform fee, no retainer. You pick the brand, we run the claim end to end, and we are paid out of what we recover. If we recover nothing, you pay nothing.
Why do you work on contingency?
Because it aligns us with you completely. We only take on matters we believe are worth pursuing, and we carry the cost and the risk of being wrong. It also means that when we tell you a case is worth running, that's a commercial judgement we're backing with our own time, not a report we've been paid to produce either way.
Because it aligns us with you completely. We only take on matters we believe are worth pursuing, and we carry the cost and the risk of being wrong. It also means that when we tell you a case is worth running, that's a commercial judgement we're backing with our own time, not a report we've been paid to produce either way.
Because it aligns us with you completely. We only take on matters we believe are worth pursuing, and we carry the cost and the risk of being wrong. It also means that when we tell you a case is worth running, that's a commercial judgement we're backing with our own time, not a report we've been paid to produce either way.
Who actually runs the claims?
Our in-house legal team, led by a qualified solicitor. They run each claim end to end: evidence, rights validation, correspondence, negotiation and settlement. Where a matter needs to escalate beyond that, we work with a specialist litigation partner. This is a legal process, not a data report — which is the difference between knowing about unlicensed use and being paid for it.
Our in-house legal team, led by a qualified solicitor. They run each claim end to end: evidence, rights validation, correspondence, negotiation and settlement. Where a matter needs to escalate beyond that, we work with a specialist litigation partner. This is a legal process, not a data report — which is the difference between knowing about unlicensed use and being paid for it.
Our in-house legal team, led by a qualified solicitor. They run each claim end to end: evidence, rights validation, correspondence, negotiation and settlement. Where a matter needs to escalate beyond that, we work with a specialist litigation partner. This is a legal process, not a data report — which is the difference between knowing about unlicensed use and being paid for it.
Do we keep control of the relationship with the brand?
Yes. Nothing goes out without your approval. Brands and agencies are your future licensing customers, so we separate high-value and systemic use from accidental, low-value or relationship-sensitive cases — and we will tell you when a matter is better monitored than escalated. You approve the list before any approach is made.
Yes. Nothing goes out without your approval. Brands and agencies are your future licensing customers, so we separate high-value and systemic use from accidental, low-value or relationship-sensitive cases — and we will tell you when a matter is better monitored than escalated. You approve the list before any approach is made.
Yes. Nothing goes out without your approval. Brands and agencies are your future licensing customers, so we separate high-value and systemic use from accidental, low-value or relationship-sensitive cases — and we will tell you when a matter is better monitored than escalated. You approve the list before any approach is made.
Is this litigation?
Rarely. Most cases resolve as a licence or a commercial settlement. We build evidence to a standard that would hold up in court precisely so that the conversation usually doesn't have to get there. Where a brand won't engage and the value justifies it, we can escalate — but that is the exception, and it's your decision.
Rarely. Most cases resolve as a licence or a commercial settlement. We build evidence to a standard that would hold up in court precisely so that the conversation usually doesn't have to get there. Where a brand won't engage and the value justifies it, we can escalate — but that is the exception, and it's your decision.
Rarely. Most cases resolve as a licence or a commercial settlement. We build evidence to a standard that would hold up in court precisely so that the conversation usually doesn't have to get there. Where a brand won't engage and the value justifies it, we can escalate — but that is the exception, and it's your decision.
What's actually in an evidence pack?
Post links, screenshots, timestamps, platform metadata, engagement and usage history, and the rights mapping that connects each use to your recording or composition — writers, artists, titles, publishers and labels. It also includes marketing and legal contact routes for the brand. It's built to be handed straight to a rights, licensing, business affairs or legal team without further work.
Post links, screenshots, timestamps, platform metadata, engagement and usage history, and the rights mapping that connects each use to your recording or composition — writers, artists, titles, publishers and labels. It also includes marketing and legal contact routes for the brand. It's built to be handed straight to a rights, licensing, business affairs or legal team without further work.
Post links, screenshots, timestamps, platform metadata, engagement and usage history, and the rights mapping that connects each use to your recording or composition — writers, artists, titles, publishers and labels. It also includes marketing and legal contact routes for the brand. It's built to be handed straight to a rights, licensing, business affairs or legal team without further work.
How does this sit alongside Content ID, our distributor, or our own enforcement team?
Alongside, not instead of. Content ID and distributor tools are built for platform-side claiming on user uploads; they don't address commercial use of your music by brands in their own marketing, and they don't produce a recovery case. We take on the workflow your team doesn't have capacity for — validation, evidence, rights mapping, valuation and the recovery conversation — and hand your team decisions rather than thousands of posts.
Alongside, not instead of. Content ID and distributor tools are built for platform-side claiming on user uploads; they don't address commercial use of your music by brands in their own marketing, and they don't produce a recovery case. We take on the workflow your team doesn't have capacity for — validation, evidence, rights mapping, valuation and the recovery conversation — and hand your team decisions rather than thousands of posts.
Alongside, not instead of. Content ID and distributor tools are built for platform-side claiming on user uploads; they don't address commercial use of your music by brands in their own marketing, and they don't produce a recovery case. We take on the workflow your team doesn't have capacity for — validation, evidence, rights mapping, valuation and the recovery conversation — and hand your team decisions rather than thousands of posts.
How far back can you look?
Well beyond the point you engage us. Historic brand content stays live and keeps earning, and we routinely surface use going back several years — in one publisher's data, a single retailer accounted for 150+ of their titles across 300+ posts over four years. How far back a claim can practically run depends on the territory and the circumstances, which we'll cover in the case review.
Well beyond the point you engage us. Historic brand content stays live and keeps earning, and we routinely surface use going back several years — in one publisher's data, a single retailer accounted for 150+ of their titles across 300+ posts over four years. How far back a claim can practically run depends on the territory and the circumstances, which we'll cover in the case review.
Well beyond the point you engage us. Historic brand content stays live and keeps earning, and we routinely surface use going back several years — in one publisher's data, a single retailer accounted for 150+ of their titles across 300+ posts over four years. How far back a claim can practically run depends on the territory and the circumstances, which we'll cover in the case review.
What do you need from us to start?
Enough to identify your repertoire — catalogue or repertoire data in whatever format you hold it — and a view on which brands or territories matter most to you. There's no onboarding fee and no system for your team to learn. A case review is confidential, without obligation, and we'll tell you honestly if we don't think there's a case worth pursuing.
Enough to identify your repertoire — catalogue or repertoire data in whatever format you hold it — and a view on which brands or territories matter most to you. There's no onboarding fee and no system for your team to learn. A case review is confidential, without obligation, and we'll tell you honestly if we don't think there's a case worth pursuing.
Enough to identify your repertoire — catalogue or repertoire data in whatever format you hold it — and a view on which brands or territories matter most to you. There's no onboarding fee and no system for your team to learn. A case review is confidential, without obligation, and we'll tell you honestly if we don't think there's a case worth pursuing.
This page describes our services in general terms and is not advice on your particular situation. For a view on a specific case, ask us for a case review.
SERVICE - MUSIC RIGHTS RECOVERY