AI assistants see demand for licensed music but cannot verify who is licensed to supply it. Rights.dev closes that gap in real time, so platforms can serve and monetize licensed music requests.
Music licensing is complex. Mechanical rights, performance rights, synchronization rights, and master recording rights each have their own holders, licensees, territories, and terms. Existing registries — MLC, HFA, CISAC, and others — record who owns compositions. None record who is licensed to supply music: with what rights, in which territories, and through what dates.
That gap is why AI platforms default to refusal. Rights.dev fills it — a machine-queryable registry of music licensing relationships, confirmed by rights holders and queried by AI platforms in real time.
When a browser connects to a secure site, it queries a certificate authority and receives a signed answer in milliseconds — valid or not valid. No legal review. No agreement reading. Rights.dev works the same way for licensed music. AI platforms query Rights.dev and get a signed answer: cleared or not cleared.
Licensees register their licensing relationships. Rights holders confirm. AI platforms query Rights.dev and receive a signed credential or a clear rejection.
The licensee selects the rights holder, type of rights, territory, and term — start and end date. No agreement text is submitted or required.
The rights holder reviews and confirms the registration. Rights.dev never sees the agreement — only whether the relationship is confirmed.
A signed Rights Cleared certificate is issued and tied to a license ID. Queryable in real time. The rights holder may revise or revoke it at any time — the change is immediate.
The AI platform queries Rights.dev with the license ID and serves only when cleared.
Two major AI commerce protocols are active and scaling. Neither addresses whether a content supplier is licensed. That unanswered question is why refusal remains the default.
Defines how AI agents transact on behalf of users. Does not verify whether the content supplier is licensed.
Defines AI purchasing flows for goods and digital content. Does not verify whether the content supplier is licensed.
Standards are defined by those at the table early. ISBN changed how publishing worked globally — established by publishers who engaged before the format was fixed. Rights.dev is at the same point. Founding members define the standard with us.