Brands are selling with your music. We collect what they owe you.
You don't pay us, they do. We take a share of what we recover. We only earn when you do.
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How it works

We protect
We pay the money and do the work to register your copyrights at the US Copyright Office.

We find
We search social media for your tracks, sped-up copies and rips included, and pick out where a business has used one to sell, past and present.

We collect
Specialist music lawyers approach the business and lay out the claim. If it takes enforcement, we foot the cost and the risk.
What a claim can be worth
Up to $150,000 a song
US law lets a court award that much for each work a business wilfully infringes, where the work was registered first. Sony Music's case against Marriott covered 931 posts, an exposure reported at close to $140 million.
Sources: US Copyright Act, section 504(c) and Music Business Worldwide.
The deal
Nothing to pay
Money never goes from you to us.
New money
It is money you were not receiving.
Our risk
We carry the cost.

Fans are left alone
Fans, creators and personal accounts are good for an artist. We only go after businesses selling with your music.

No sale needed
You keep your rights, your distributor and your publisher. We also invest, and we say so, but this does not depend on it.
Who we are
Maru Music is a rights management company with an investment arm. Our job is to make sure the people behind music are paid everything it earns.
Questions
Isn't this already covered by the platform's music licence?
Usually not when a business uses the music to sell. Brands putting music in videos they upload need to negotiate sync deals with the relevant labels and publishers, unless the music has been explicitly pre-cleared for commercial use.
Why don't the platforms or my distributor flag these uses?
None of them is set up to catch these uses at the scale they operate. Your distributor delivers your recordings, your publisher registers your songs, and the platform licenses its users. A business's own promotional video falls between the three.
What evidence do you capture?
For every use we confirm, we capture the video, the account that posted it, the date and the audience figures the platform shows that day. Each capture is hashed and dated, so anyone reviewing it later can see the file has not changed.
What does a settlement look like?
It depends on what the evidence shows: how many uses, over what period and in front of what audience. We do not put a figure on a settlement in advance. Nothing counts as recovered until the business has paid.
Do I have to sell you anything?
No, and no sale is expected. If you ever decide to sell, we would welcome that conversation. The aim is to realise the value of your catalogue, alongside you, whether we are the owners of the music or you are.
What happens after I send a link?
We run a quick check. Where it finds business use worth pursuing, a scan follows, sent to you as a page where you can get started. We do not take on every catalogue, and any agreement comes later, only if you choose.
Is a business selling with your music?
Send us your Spotify link, or your songwriter name or IPI, and we'll get back to you shortly.