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LegacyNext · Music Rights

Splits that hold up.
Payments that follow them.

An operating layer for independent labels and music publishers. Each rights pool is registered as a unique token with its contracts and splits attached, and every allocation is written to a blockchain, so the label, the writer and an auditor read the same record. Revenue is allocated against that record as it arrives, and payment is released from the same step.

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Catalog size 500–5,000 songs
Starting scope One rights pool
Allocation Set before revenue arrives
Proof layer Blockchain-anchored

The Problem

Royalty operations are
still built for paper.

Modern catalogs run on quarterly statements, manual spreadsheets, and bank transfers that arrive weeks later. Every step costs a person and a day. Every dispute costs a quarter.

Statements arrive stale
Society and DSP statements come quarterly or twice a year, in different formats with different rules. By the time the picture is complete, the period is already months in the past.
Reconciliation is human
A team of two to five people often spends the better part of a month matching statements to contracts, allocating splits across writers and publishers, and chasing missing data. That cost lands every cycle.
Payouts move at bank speed
Disbursing to fifty or two thousand stakeholders by bank transfer takes days, breaks for every edge case, and arrives in a format the songwriter cannot interrogate.
Disputes absorb a quarter
A single audit by a high-profile writer can absorb a senior person for six weeks and end in settlement. The underlying records are scattered across contracts, spreadsheets, and email.
No live view of accruals
The CFO cannot answer the simple question of what is owed to whom right now. The picture is always a quarter behind, and the board hears it that way too.

Before / After

What changes when one rights pool
moves onto the platform.

A single catalog or rights pool runs end-to-end on LegacyNext while the rest of the back office continues as it was. The operational savings show up where the operational cost actually sits.

Today

  • Splits re-applied every cycle across spreadsheets and royalty software, with manual lookups for every contract exception.
  • Three weeks of human reconciliation at the start of each quarter before a single payout can be cut.
  • Bank-transfer disbursement in days, with a separate process for every currency and every edge case.
  • Quarterly statements to writers in a format they cannot drill into and do not trust.
  • Audits handled as litigation events, with a senior person pulled off other work for weeks.

With LegacyNext

  • Splits set once at registration and applied automatically every time revenue arrives.
  • Reconciliation runs as revenue lands, with exceptions surfaced live instead of discovered at quarter-end.
  • Payouts released in one step to every stakeholder, in the currency they choose, as soon as the allocation is recorded.
  • A live writer portal shows each songwriter what has been allocated to them, with the trail behind it.
  • Audits start from one record, anchored and read the same way by the writer, the label and the auditor.

How It Works

What the platform actually does.

Six things, end to end. Plain language, no infrastructure to install, no specialist team required on your side.

01
Registers your rights pool. Each catalog, song, or rights pool is registered with all underlying contracts attached, so the splits and exceptions are part of the record from day one.
02
Runs the splits automatically. When revenue arrives from a society or a DSP, the platform applies the splits and routes payment to every stakeholder in the same step.
03
Pays everyone in their currency. Writers, publishers, and sub-publishers receive euros, dollars, or another supported currency, converted automatically at the moment of receipt.
04
Gives every party a live view. The CFO sees real-time accruals across the pool. Each writer sees their own earnings the day they accrue.
05
Anchors the record. Every registration, change and allocation is hashed and written to a blockchain with an eIDAS timestamp. A later change to the record is detectable, and no party has to accept another's internal database as the source of truth.
06
Operates inside EU compliance. KYC, AML and counter-terrorist-financing checks are built in. The token carries a rights record and represents no financial claim on revenue; where a structure does carry financial exposure, that is arranged separately under the applicable regime.

Where We Fit

The platform sits
alongside your existing stack.

LegacyNext is the operational layer on top of what you already run. Your society relationships and your royalty-accounting software stay in place and keep doing what they do.

Collection societies
Your relationships with PRS, GEMA, BUMA/STEMRA, SACEM and the rest continue as today. They keep collecting from broadcasters, venues, and DSPs the way they always have. The platform begins where the money arrives at the rights holder.
Royalty accounting
Your existing royalty-accounting software stays in place. Whether you run Curve, Vistex, or something else, LegacyNext sits alongside it on a defined rights pool and adds a layer where the manual work currently sits.
Where we add value
The platform handles the reconciliation, the disbursement, and the audit overhead for the pool that flows through it. Your team keeps the work that matters and offloads the work that does not.

Leadership Team

Three founders
across technology and music.

Partner · Head of Tech

Herman Vissia

Ph.D. in the theoretical foundations of computer science. Lectures on AI, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. Owns the technical architecture and the parts of the platform defensible to a regulator.

herman@legacynext.eu
+31 655 762 101
Partner · Head of Growth, Music

Frank van Hoorn

Founded Europe's first entertainment marketing agency. Has worked with artists at the level of the Rolling Stones and Hardwell. Brings the relationships and operating instincts in music and entertainment IP.

frank@legacynext.eu
+31 654 798 182
Partner · Head of Growth

Lucas van Zandvoort

Co-owner of Eagledale (Pickleball for All), former co-owner of Crocs Benelux, motivational speaker at Nyenrode. Brings consumer-brand and licensing operating experience.

lucas@legacynext.eu
+31 618 199 098

One Conversation

Sixty minutes with whoever runs
your royalty operations.

The conversation starts with your current royalty cycle. You walk us through how it runs today, where the friction sits, and what would have to be true for a different approach to be worth considering. We share what the platform would do at each step, and where it would not.

If there is a basis to continue, we agree the next step together.

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