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Steven Wescott Keeps the Music Business's Messiest Files Moving
From copyright data analyst to CMO services manager, Steven Wescott has built a career in the place where music meets metadata, claims and payment - while keeping one foot in artist management.
The Company Making Sure Your Stream Finds the Right Songwriter
Every play creates a tiny accounting problem. Music Reports built the database, software and human review operation that tries to solve billions of them before the money disappears into the music industry's black box.
Jean-Christian Céré Has Spent a Career Translating Creative Work Into Durable Institutions
From Parliament Hill to a pipe-organ workshop, then back to royalty systems, Céré has built a career around one practical question: how do you make a complicated institution work for the people counting on it?
SOCAN Built a C$587 Million Tollbooth for Music - Now AI Is Cutting a Side Door
For a century, SOCAN made an impossible market workable by turning millions of songs and uses into licenses and royalty cheques. Its next test is harder: finding the human creator inside a flood of streams, metadata and machine-made music.
beatBread Wants Musicians to Take the Money - Without Giving Away the Music
The music industry has always known how to turn tomorrow's royalties into today's cash. beatBread's wager is that software, transparent terms and competing funders can let independent artists do it without signing away the steering wheel.
The Company That Collects the World’s Songs - One Split at a Time
Sony Music Publishing does not sell listeners a subscription. It makes the machinery behind a song work - registering ownership, collecting royalties and finding the next screen, stream or market where a composition belongs.
ASCAP Is the Quiet Machine Behind Every Public Play
A song can travel from a phone to a stadium in seconds. ASCAP's hard, mostly invisible job is to notice the trip, price the public performance and send the money home.
Duetti
Duetti is a New York-based music fintech that buys catalogs and royalty streams from independent artists, giving creators upfront cash for their recorded music and publishing rights without debt or recoupment. Founded in 2022 by former Tidal COO Lior Tibon and ex-Apple Music executive Christopher Nolte, the company pairs catalog financing with active distribution, marketing and playlist support, positioning itself as a catalog partner built specifically for the long tail of independent creators rather than major-label superstars.
Lior Tibon
Lior Tibon is the co-founder and CEO of Duetti, a New York-based music financing platform that lets independent artists and songwriters sell their catalogs, individual tracks, or fractions of them for upfront cash. Before Duetti, he spent more than seven years as COO of TIDAL, the artist-owned streaming service launched under JAY-Z, and started his career as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank in London. Duetti has raised over $623M to fund the independent music community, backed by The Raine Group, Flexpoint Ford, Nyca Partners, Viola Ventures and Roc Nation.