Straight answers on AI rights, music and data.

The Rights Foundry is AI rights infrastructure: the permission layer for AI and creative IP, starting with music. Through one API and MCP server, builders, brands, platforms and AI companies can find, clear, license, track and pay for creative work, starting with 110,000+ globally cleared songs from 3,500+ independent artists. Everything people trust runs on permission. That layer was never built into the AI stack. The Rights Foundry is building it.

AI rights infrastructure is the layer that clears, records and settles the right to use creative work inside software and AI systems, at the point of use, through an API. It does for permission what payments infrastructure did for money: it turns a manual, negotiated process into a service other products call. The Rights Foundry is building this layer, starting with music.

The permission layer is the part of the AI stack that answers one question before anything is used: is this allowed, and who gets paid? Applications ask it at runtime, models ask it before training and before shipping output, and datasets carry its answer on record. The Rights Foundry provides that layer as infrastructure.

No. The Rights Foundry is AI rights infrastructure. Music is its first vertical because it is the hardest rights problem in media: two copyrights per song, split ownership, and the most litigated input in AI. The same consent, policy, provenance, metering and settlement engines are built for any creative IP.

The Rights Foundry starts with music because it is the hardest case, the biggest demand, and the place it has supply on day one. Every song carries two copyrights that are often split across several owners. Every app, game, video tool and AI video model needs audio. And The Rights Foundry launches with 110,000+ globally cleared songs and 35,000+ tracks already cleared for AI.

After music, The Rights Foundry plans to extend the same engine to film and video, then images and writing, then voice and likeness identity: consent, licensing and enforcement for a person's voice and likeness across platforms. Voice and likeness identity is not voice generation. The financial plan covers music only.

No. The Rights Foundry delivers commercially released music from independent artists as infrastructure, through an API, with rights flags on every track. It is not a browse-and-download library.

No. Negotiated sync placement remains the right model for film, television and major campaigns. The Rights Foundry serves the uses sync cannot reach: product speed, machine scale and legal certainty at the point of integration.

No. The Rights Foundry does not build or sell models. AI music and video companies are customers and partners that license through it.

No. The Rights Foundry does not replace an artist's or label's distributor. It reaches the products, platforms and AI systems that distribution and streaming do not, through an API, with every use licensed and paid.

No. The Rights Foundry is not blockchain-based and has no tokens or crypto. Rights, license records and payments run on conventional infrastructure: an API, a policy engine, audit logs and usage billing.

The Rights Foundry catalog launches with 110,000+ commercially released, globally cleared songs from 3,500+ independent artists, under an all-media license. 35,000+ tracks are cleared for AI under signed GenAI Addenda. The target is 250,000+ tracks, 100,000+ AI-cleared tracks and 5,000+ artists within 18 months of funding.

Cleared by default means every track in The Rights Foundry catalog has its rights confirmed before it is available, for both the recording and the composition. Builders do not start a clearance process per track. Rights are confirmed before use, not negotiated after.

The Rights Foundry clears the recording and the composition together for every track before it is available, so one API call licenses the whole song rather than a fragment of it.

Globally cleared means a track's rights are confirmed for every territory, so there is no per-country licensing. The Rights Foundry catalog is globally cleared.

The Rights Foundry is built to be catalog-agnostic: one rights layer that any catalog can supply under the same terms. It launches with Audiosocket as its first catalog provider, a second foundational catalog is committed, and more are in discussion.

Yes. Rights flags are set per track and per use, so a track can be cleared for one use and excluded from another. Catalogs keep control of what each track is cleared for.

The Rights Foundry provides access to commercially released music from independent artists, with tracks searchable by genre, mood, tempo and instrumentation. Game developers can explore the catalog for music that fits their game's atmosphere and check the available licensing permissions before selecting tracks for the soundtrack.

The Rights Foundry catalog supports searching by genre, mood, BPM, key and instrumentation, with similarity search also available. These filters help developers find music that suits a particular product experience, from calm meditation sessions to energetic game sequences. You can check the applicable rights as part of the music selection workflow.

There is no single best catalog for every project. Audio quality, catalog diversity, metadata, musical fit and licensing permissions all matter. The Rights Foundry focuses on commercially released music from independent artists, with a searchable catalog and rights information. Preview tracks and check the applicable license against your requirements before committing to a soundtrack or product integration.

With The Rights Foundry, a builder gets an API key, searches the catalog, and licenses a track with one call. The policy engine checks the rights on every call, and the call record is the license record. The Foundation tier is free.

Yes. The Rights Foundry provides an MCP server, so coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor can search the catalog, check rights and license tracks from inside the editor.

The Rights Foundry returns a typed error that says which right is missing. The use does not go through, so nothing unlicensed ships.

No. The Rights Foundry self-serve plans start with a free Foundation tier and need no sales conversation.

The Rights Foundry catalog is searchable by mood, genre, BPM, key, instrumentation and rights type, with similarity search at launch.

Yes. The Rights Foundry Foundation tier is free. AI teams can also test the data format with a gated set of 500 ISRC-verified tracks planned for Hugging Face in Q1 2027.

The Rights Foundry gives developers access to commercially released music from independent artists through one API. Whether your app needs background music, interactive audio, video creation or user-generated content, you can search for tracks and license music for your intended use. Both recording and composition rights are cleared together, with each licensed use recorded.

The Rights Foundry helps game developers find commercially released music for soundtracks, menus, gameplay and cinematics. Search by mood, genre, tempo and instrumentation, then check the available licensing permissions before integrating a track.

Fitness apps need music that matches the energy and pace of each workout. The Rights Foundry lets developers search for music by tempo, mood, genre and instrumentation, making it easier to find tracks for high-intensity workouts, yoga, meditation and recovery sessions.

The Rights Foundry offers a free Foundation tier for developers to get started with its music API. Music licenses and API access are separate considerations, so verify the rights required for your live product.

Not simply because the songs are available on those platforms. Spotify and YouTube provide access to music under their own terms, which generally do not grant permission to embed commercial recordings in your app, synchronize them with videos or allow users to export them. You need a license covering your specific use. The Rights Foundry provides a way to discover and license music for integration into apps and creative products.

AI-generated music can be suitable for commercial use, but its legal status depends on the provider's terms, the rights in the training data and any restrictions on generated outputs. Alternatively, The Rights Foundry provides access to human-made, commercially released music with documented recording and composition rights.

Royalty-free music is generally licensed without ongoing royalties for uses covered by the agreement. Copyright-free is an imprecise term that may refer to public-domain music or music with no applicable copyright restrictions. Licensed music is music used with permission under defined terms. For apps, the important question is whether the license covers commercial use, playback, video synchronization, distribution and user exports. Royalty-free does not mean unrestricted.

You can integrate music into a Lovable app by connecting a suitable music API and implementing search, playback and licensing features. The Rights Foundry provides an API and an MCP server for compatible AI coding tools. Your coding assistant can help implement the integration, while you keep credentials secure and check that the licensed tracks cover your app's intended use.

Not necessarily. Some stock music licenses cover a specific video or production but restrict embedding tracks in software, redistributing music or allowing users to create and export content. Check the actual agreement for your intended use. The Rights Foundry provides licensing infrastructure for music integrated into apps and creative products, with the permissions granted recorded for each licensed use.

The best music API depends on your use case. A streaming API may suit an app that plays music within a defined listening environment, while a licensed music API is more suitable when you need music for video creation, games or other product features. The Rights Foundry combines commercially released music, structured metadata, rights checks and licensing workflows through one API.

The Rights Foundry provides access to commercially released music from independent artists through a single API and standardized licensing workflow. Instead of negotiating individual agreements with artists, developers can search the catalog, check permitted uses and license tracks through their account. Both recording and composition rights are cleared together.

Connect your application to a music provider through its API, implement the integration on the server side and test the search, playback and licensing flows. The Rights Foundry provides an MCP server for compatible AI coding assistants, helping them work with the catalog and licensing tools. Review the generated code, protect your API credentials and confirm the music license covers your app's functionality.

The Rights Foundry gives game developers access to commercially released music from independent artists, with licensing options for integrating music into games and other interactive experiences. You can search for tracks, check usage rights and license music through our API without negotiating with individual artists.

The Rights Foundry lets developers search commercially released tracks and license them for permitted uses.

You need a license that covers video synchronization, export and the commercial distribution of the resulting content. The Rights Foundry offers Stream, Sync and Portable Sync license types with different scopes.

A streaming service is generally designed for listening within its permitted playback environment. A licensed music library or API is often better when you need to integrate music into your own app, game or video creation workflow. The Rights Foundry combines catalog access and licensing infrastructure so developers can check permissions as they integrate music into their products.

Use a music provider whose licensing explicitly supports social applications and user-generated content. The Rights Foundry offers API-based music licensing for platforms and creative products.

Choose music with rights for video synchronization, rather than relying solely on an in-app playback license. The Rights Foundry provides searchable commercially released music for creative applications.

The Rights Foundry provides royalty-free music from independent artists that you can license for commercial projects, including games. Our API lets you discover tracks, check usage rights and license music without negotiating with individual artists.

The Rights Foundry offers a free Foundation tier and paid developer plans for integrating licensed music through an API. Independent game studios can search commercially released music without negotiating separately with each artist.

Your users need music licensed for commercial video creation, export and distribution. A standard streaming license may not cover monetized videos or publishing on external platforms. Choose a provider whose agreement addresses downstream commercial use and the rights granted to your users. The Rights Foundry offers licensing options for creative products, including Portable Sync for uses covered by the applicable agreement.

It depends on the stock library's license. With The Rights Foundry, you don't need to use just stock music. We provide real music by real artists available for your game via an API.

The Rights Foundry provides API access to commercially released music from independent artists. Developers can search tracks and check licensing information when building music experiences into apps and platforms.

Look for music with rights cleared for the territories where your app operates. The Rights Foundry's catalog is globally cleared, with recording and composition rights confirmed together.

Start with the official API documentation for your chosen provider, then look for SDKs and example integrations on GitHub. The Rights Foundry provides developer documentation at https://docs.therightsfoundry.com/. When using a sample project, verify that its endpoints are current, credentials are handled securely and music is licensed through the appropriate workflow.

Yes. On an Enterprise plan, a brand's own team and its creator partners use music from the same cleared catalog under one agreement, across social, paid and owned channels.

The Rights Foundry Enterprise plan is a committed plan for brands and platforms that need cleared music at volume, from $4,000 a month. Core rights terms are standard; enterprise terms such as security, service levels, data processing and indemnity can be agreed.

Music licensed through The Rights Foundry is cleared for the recording and the composition, globally, under an all-media license, and every licensed use is on record. That record is what a brand points to when a platform asks.

Yes. Platforms use The Rights Foundry API to put cleared music inside their own apps and experiences, metered by usage.

The Rights Foundry provides commercially released music that can be licensed for permitted commercial video uses. This means you can integrate music search and licensing into ad creation workflows.

Choose a music licensing provider that explicitly supports commercial video exports. The Rights Foundry offers different license types for streaming, synchronization and portable synchronization.

The Rights Foundry provides searchable commercially released music for creative platforms and video workflows. Developers can find tracks by mood, genre and tempo, then license them for permitted uses.

Yes. 35,000+ tracks in The Rights Foundry catalog are cleared for AI under signed GenAI Addenda, opt-in, artist by artist, with per-track rights flags for training, fine-tuning, evaluation and generative output.

An AI license is The Rights Foundry license type for AI uses of music. It is priced by use-case risk, from search and classification at the low end to generative output with downstream commercial rights at the high end.

Downstream rights cover commercial use of what an AI model generates after training or tuning on licensed music. The Rights Foundry generative AI license includes downstream commercial rights explicitly, because those are the rights a shipping product needs.

The EU AI Act requires providers of general-purpose AI models to publish a summary of their training content and keep a copyright policy that honors machine-readable opt-outs. The Rights Foundry records consent and permitted use for every track, and its rights manifests (designed for launch) are built to give model teams a machine-readable record of what a dataset contains and under which terms. This is not legal advice.

A rights manifest is a machine-readable record of the rights behind a dataset: which works it contains, which consent records cover them, and which terms apply. The Rights Foundry plans to publish its manifest schema openly so any dataset can describe its rights the same way.

The Rights Foundry Evaluation Datasets are fixed, rights-cleared sets for benchmarking classification, recommendation and generation quality, delivered as versioned snapshots at launch so results can be reproduced.

AI teams start with a scoping call, test a sample set with metadata and rights flags, agree terms (standard core rights, with enterprise terms agreed to fit), and then receive delivery with every licensed use on record.

The Rights Foundry provides licensed music data for commercial AI training, fine-tuning and evaluation. Its catalog includes more than 35,000 tracks cleared for AI under signed artist opt-in agreements for generative use. Recording and composition rights are cleared together. Contact the team to discuss your model, dataset requirements and the rights needed for commercial deployment.

The Rights Foundry offers human-made, commercially released music cleared for generative AI under signed artist opt-in agreements. Teams evaluating other suppliers should verify explicit consent, recording and composition rights, training permissions and downstream commercial rights rather than relying on general claims that a catalog is licensed.

The Rights Foundry licenses music data for AI training and fine-tuning. Teams building multimodal systems should specify whether they need audio-only training material or paired audio and video assets. A music license does not automatically clear accompanying video, images or other media, so those rights must be confirmed separately.

The Rights Foundry provides music data for non-generative AI tasks such as classification, tagging, search and recommendation. Its searchable catalog includes metadata such as genre, mood, tempo, key and instrumentation.

The Rights Foundry offers licensed music data for search, classification and recommendation applications. AI teams can discuss audio access, metadata and embedding-related products for similarity search and retrieval.

The Rights Foundry has more than 35,000 tracks cleared for generative AI under signed GenAI Addenda, with artists opting in individually. This distinguishes generative AI permissions from rights granted for other uses.

The Rights Foundry clears the sound recording and underlying composition together for tracks in its catalog.

The Rights Foundry provides searchable music metadata covering genre, mood, BPM, key and instrumentation. These fields help teams curate datasets for classification, recommendation and music retrieval.

The Rights Foundry can help AI teams scope music datasets around genre, mood, tempo and other musical characteristics. Describe your fine-tuning objective and whether the model is generative or non-generative so the licensing terms can be matched to the intended use.

Stems can be useful for source separation, instrument recognition and arrangement analysis. AI teams should ask suppliers which stems are available, whether they are original studio stems or derived separations, and whether the license permits training and commercial deployment. Contact The Rights Foundry to discuss stem availability and the relevant rights for your project.

The Rights Foundry's AI data offering includes retrieval and embedding-related use cases for music discovery and similarity applications. Ask the team about licensing audio for generating your own embeddings.

The Rights Foundry offers generative AI licensing that can include downstream commercial rights. The agreement should specify whether generated music can be synchronized with films, used in games, included in advertisements and distributed commercially. Reach out to the team and we'd be happy to help.

The Rights Foundry provides licensed music data for generative AI model development, with artist opt-in recorded for tracks cleared for that use. Its generative AI licensing framework can include downstream commercial rights for generated outputs. Discuss your hosted API, customer terms, model deployment and commercial output requirements with the licensing team before training.

You need permission for the relevant recordings and compositions to be used in fine-tuning, as well as any additional rights required for evaluation, deployment and commercial use of generated outputs. The Rights Foundry offers use-specific AI licensing; get in touch today and our team.

The Rights Foundry works with AI teams on licensing music for commercial model development. Hosted inference and downloadable model weights can present different licensing considerations, so specify your intended distribution method and customer access model. Reach out to our team and we'd be happy to chat.

The Rights Foundry provides documented recording and composition clearance, signed artist opt-in agreements for generative AI and track-level rights information. Its AI data materials describe provenance and machine-readable rights documentation to support procurement and legal review.

The Rights Foundry records rights information at track level and distinguishes between AI use cases, including training, fine-tuning, evaluation and generative output. Its rights manifest framework is designed to help teams represent permissions and provenance in machine-readable form. Reach out to the team to find out more today.

The Rights Foundry offers research and evaluation access alongside separately scoped commercial AI licensing. Contact the team to discuss the permitted transition and any additional rights needed.

Pricing depends on dataset size, intended use, model type, deployment method and downstream commercial rights. Non-generative applications may have different licensing requirements from generative music models. Contract The Rights Foundry team today to find out more.

Use a fixed evaluation dataset with documented contents, consistent metadata and a clear license. The Rights Foundry's evaluation offering is designed to support benchmarking of classification, recommendation and generation quality. Ask about current dataset availability, versioning and permitted uses, contact our team today.

Hugging Face hosts music datasets for research and model evaluation, but each dataset has its own licensing terms. The Rights Foundry has announced a 500-track evaluation dataset intended for research, education and benchmarking under a dedicated license. Check its current publication status and terms before use. Research access should not be treated as permission for commercial model training or deployment.

The Rights Foundry uses usage-based pricing. Self-serve plans run from a free Foundation tier through Starter ($49), Builder ($149), Growth ($499) and Scale ($1,499) a month. Enterprise plans start at $4,000 a month. AI Suite pricing is set by use-case risk.

Artists in The Rights Foundry catalog share in every licensed use of their music, including AI deals, on an ongoing basis. There are no flat-fee buyouts for generative AI, and payment is designed to be faster than the industry's 6 to 18 month cycle.

No. A track is only used for AI if its artist has signed a GenAI Addendum, which sets out permitted and excluded uses.

The Rights Foundry gives catalogs developer, platform and AI revenue through one neutral rights layer. Every catalog supplies under the same terms, keeps per-track control through rights flags, and builds no infrastructure of its own.

The Rights Foundry uses usage-based pricing, with a free Foundation tier and paid developer plans.

The Rights Foundry offers a free Foundation tier and paid plans for developers who need music through an API. This allows indie studios to explore the integration before choosing a plan for their live product.

A master recording is a specific recorded performance of a song. Its copyright usually belongs to the record label, or to the artist for independent releases. Any product that uses the recording needs a license from its owner.

A composition copyright covers the underlying musical work: melody, harmony and lyrics. It belongs to the songwriters and is administered by their publishers. Many recordings can share one composition.

A song carries two copyrights, the recording and the composition, often owned by different people. Both must be cleared for a use to be licensed. This is the core friction in music licensing.

Music publishing is the business of licensing compositions, collecting their royalties and paying songwriters.

A PRO is a Performing Rights Organization. PROs collect and pay royalties for public performance of compositions. Examples include ASCAP and BMI in the US, PRS in the UK, SOCAN in Canada and APRA in Australia.

A sync license covers music used with visual media. A mechanical license covers reproduction of a composition. A performance license covers public performance or broadcast, administered through PROs.

Neighboring rights pay performers and recording owners when a recording is publicly performed or broadcast, separate from songwriters' performance royalties.

Royalty-free means a license is paid once with no ongoing per-use royalty. It does not mean free or unlicensed. Royalty-free music still has rights holders and terms.

An ISRC is the International Standard Recording Code, which identifies a recording. An ISWC is the International Standard Musical Work Code, which identifies a composition.

Stems are the separate parts of a track, such as drums, bass and vocals. They are valuable for AI training and generation because they isolate sounds.

Training rights cover using music as data to train an AI model. Most existing commercial music licenses do not include them.

Content provenance is a record of where training data came from, who made it, what rights were granted and on what terms. Models trained on documented, licensed data are in a stronger legal position than models trained on scraped data.

Royalties on AI-generated music are still legally unsettled in most countries. The Rights Foundry resolves this by contract rather than waiting for the courts: its generative AI license sets downstream terms in advance, and artists' AI participation is set out in signed GenAI Addenda.

Rights enforcement tools, such as YouTube Content ID, detect music after it has been used, inside their own platforms. A rights layer confirms permission before use, records the use and pays from it. The Rights Foundry is a rights layer, not an enforcement tool.

Royalty-free music is licensed without ongoing royalties for uses covered by the agreement. Copyright-free is often used to describe public-domain music, but the term can be misleading. Licensed music is music used under defined permissions. The Rights Foundry clears both recording and composition rights together, so you can check the permissions for your intended use and license music for your app with confidence.

Not automatically. A stock license may cover a finished video but exclude embedding music in software, redistributing tracks or allowing users to export content. The Rights Foundry helps app developers find and license commercially released music with recording and composition rights cleared together. Through our API, you can check track-level permissions and license music for your intended use, including in-app experiences.

Access to music through Spotify or YouTube does not automatically grant rights to use those recordings in your own product. Embedding tracks, synchronizing them with videos or enabling commercial exports may require additional permissions. The Rights Foundry helps app developers license commercially released music for their products, with recording and composition rights cleared together. Through our API, you can discover tracks and check usage permissions for your intended use, rather than relying on a personal streaming subscription or platform access.