The Future of Music Rights—What Raptoreum Can Do Today—A Use Case
It starts with a song—a melody that captures hearts and dominates playlists worldwide. A young artist, hopeful and ambitious, uploads their music for the world to hear. The track goes viral, generating millions of streams and royalties. But when the artist goes to collect their earnings, the nightmare begins.
Faulty systems, fraud, and disputes over who owns what result in delays, lost revenue, and legal battles. For decades, the music industry has struggled to protect its creators from these scenarios. And while blockchain promised solutions, most platforms rely on EVM-based systems riddled with flaws.
Raptoreum offers something better. Not in the future—today.
The Problem: Rights and Royalties in a Broken System
The music industry generates over $26 billion annually, yet even major players struggle with:
• Disputes over Ownership: Who owns the song? The lyrics? The beat? Ownership is often ambiguous, and disputes can take years to resolve.
• Unreliable Royalty Payments: Artists wait months or years for royalties, often receiving incorrect amounts due to human error or opaque systems.
• Fraudulent Claims: Bad actors exploit outdated digital rights management (DRM) systems, fraudulently claiming rights to music they don’t own.
Blockchain promised to fix these problems, but EVM-based systems rely on smart contracts plagued by vulnerabilities, including bugs, oracle dependencies, and immutability errors. For music creators, these risks are unacceptable.
The Solution: Raptoreum Master Assets
Raptoreum’s Master Assets offer a robust, secure solution to these problems without relying on risky smart contracts. With protocol-layer security and straightforward functionality, Master Assets provide artists, labels, and IP lawyers the tools to secure rights, track royalties, and protect against fraud—right now.
Here’s what Raptoreum Master Assets can do today:
1. Immutable Ownership Records
• Artists can register their music—tracks, lyrics, and compositions—as unique, tokenized assets directly on the Raptoreum blockchain.
• Ownership records are tamper-proof, timestamped, and accessible for verification by anyone.
• Disputes over rights are eliminated because the blockchain provides mathematical proof of who owns what.
2. Fraud Protection
• Once a song or album is registered as a Master Asset, no one else can claim it.
• Unlike traditional DRM systems or EVM-based platforms prone to exploits, Raptoreum’s protocol-layer security ensures the integrity of all registered assets.
3. Transparent Transactions
• Any transfer of rights, whether a sale, licensing deal, or royalty split, is recorded immutably on the blockchain.
• Artists and collaborators can track every transaction in real time, ensuring complete transparency in their business dealings.
4. Scalability for Labels and Artists Alike
• Independent artists can secure their rights just as easily as major labels can manage entire catalogs of music, creating a system that works for everyone.
What This Looks Like Today: A Case Study
Let’s imagine an independent musician—Taylor, a singer-songwriter. Taylor registers her new album on Raptoreum as a Master Asset, recording:
• Ownership of Each Song: Taylor is the verified creator of the lyrics and melodies.
• Collaboration Details: Her producer and co-writer’s contributions are also recorded, establishing clear ownership splits.
• Licensing Terms: Taylor licenses one song to a film studio, and the terms of the agreement are transparently recorded on the blockchain.
Six months later, Taylor’s album becomes a hit. A fraudster tries to claim the rights to one of her songs. But with Raptoreum, Taylor’s ownership is cryptographically verifiable, leaving no room for doubt.
Meanwhile, Taylor’s royalty payments flow smoothly.
Each sale or license automatically updates the blockchain, showing Taylor how much she’s earned and ensuring collaborators are paid according to the agreements recorded on the ledger.
No disputes. No delays. Just trust, secured by the blockchain.
The Inevitable Outcome: Raptoreum’s Master Assets in the Music Industry
By solving today’s problems with Master Assets, Raptoreum is already transforming the music industry:
1. For Artists:
• Ownership is secure, and fraudulent claims are impossible.
• Transparency ensures they get paid fairly and on time.
2. For IP Lawyers:
• Master Assets provide clear, immutable proof of ownership for use in disputes or negotiations.
• Every transaction and transfer is recorded, eliminating the need for manual audits or unclear paper trails.
3. For Labels and Studios:
• Managing rights across large catalogs becomes simple and efficient.
• Licensing agreements and collaborations can be securely recorded, reducing the risk of disputes.
Why Raptoreum Stands Out
Unlike EVM-based platforms that rely on error-prone smart contract language, Raptoreum’s Master Assets are secured directly at the protocol level. This means:
• No vulnerabilities to exploits like reentrancy attacks or oracle manipulation.
• No reliance on fragile, complex code for transactions.
• A system built for trust and transparency from the ground up.
For music creators and their legal teams, Raptoreum provides something unprecedented: peace of mind.
The Next Chapter: Building Toward Smart Contracts
While Master Assets are already solving critical issues, Raptoreum’s upcoming smart contract layer will expand these capabilities even further. Soon, automated royalty splits, advanced licensing agreements, and global collaboration tools will make Raptoreum the go-to blockchain for the music industry.
But the story doesn’t have to wait. With Master Assets, the foundation for a secure, transparent, and fraud-proof future is already here.
The Future of Music Rights Begins Now
In an industry where disputes over ownership and royalties are the norm, Raptoreum offers a new path forward. With Master Assets, artists, labels, and IP lawyers can secure what matters most—trust, transparency, and the truth.
And the best part? It’s not just a vision for the future. It’s a possible reality today.
Hunter Schultz
Raptoreum Team