Advanced Content Protection For The Music Industry
MUSO Protect
Data Driven Content Protection For The Music Industry
Piracy remains a significant challenge for the music industry, threatening artists' livelihoods and the overall revenue of rights holders. With the proliferation of illegal downloading and unlicensed streaming, content creators face substantial financial losses and decreased control over their work. MUSO's content protection solutions leverage advanced piracy detection technologies and expertise to help rights holders identify and remove unauthorized content.
Our solutions also combat streaming fraud and artist hijacking on legal DSPs like Spotify and Apple Music. MUSO identifies unauthorized uploads, monitors artist profiles, and protects against misuse by swiftly removing infringing content.
Our advanced tools are designed to address the unique and varied challenges faced by artists and labels, leveraging nuanced technical solutions that adapt to individual needs without compromising scalability or efficiency.
How MUSO Protect Works
Metadata Ingestion
We ingest meta data at scale for all media sectors using CSV files or industry-specific formats (e.g. DDEX)
Global Piracy Crawling
We crawl global piracy domains, social platforms and search engines matching potential piracy files
AI and Expert Verification
Combining AI with piracy expertise, we verify infringements and issue notices to ensure swift and effective content takedown
Why MUSO?
AI-Driven Automation
MUSO’s end to end automated platform is working around the clock to find, verify and remove content at scale from the piracy ecosystem
Submit Infringements
Experience seamless anti-piracy management: submit any infringing URLs directly and enable global teams to collaborate seamlessly while maintaining control
Reporting Impact
Enhance your reporting with our easy to use dashboard: intuitive visuals, exportable reports for stakeholders, detailed compliance logs, and customise user access for efficient campaign oversight
Enforcement team
Our expert team secures swift compliance through established platform relationships and intermediary engagement, using automation for efficient process management directly within our dashboard
Streaming Fraud and Social Media Protection
MUSO safeguards revenue by tackling streaming fraud, artist hijacking, and social media piracy through swift removals and DSP audits
Flexible & Customised Protection
MUSO integrates with digital aggregators to provide automated protection for pre-release and catalogue content, combining expert management and tailored solutions to address digital piracy and streaming fraud
Content Protection That Scales With Your Needs
MUSO offers a range of protection packages to suit your business needs
Automated Protection
- Automated discovery and removal of pirated content, 24/7
- Unlimited takedowns
- Includes cyberlocker, download, torrent and streaming sites
- Search Engine delisting
- Live infringement activity reporting from the dashboard
- Access to MUSO’s ‘Submit Infringement’ tool
- Record of all takedowns sent
- Customer Support
Premium Protection
- All the features of Automated Protection PLUS;
- Campaigns fully managed by MUSO’s team of experts
- Additional Social Media, Search Engine, ISP and UGC Module
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager
- Additional manual verification of unmatched results
- Access to additional modules (UGC, Social media etc)
Custom Protection
- Create bespoke campaigns tailored to your needs
- Additional piracy intelligence on your titles
- Advanced regional content protection strategies
- High volume catalogue and frontline protection strategies
- Nuanced solutions for streaming fraud, artist hijacking, plus unauthorized uploads on DSPs and social media platforms
Additional Solutions For Enhanced Protection
Take any of our additional modules with our Premium and Custom packages
Escalation Services
- Escalation with third party intermediaries
- Dedicated enforcement analyst
- Detailed audit trail in the Dashboard
Social Media & User-Generated Content
- Identify and remove infringing Social Media posts
- Expert verification
- Access to MUSO's platform relationships
- Choose from an extensive list of platforms
Streaming Fraud & Artist Hijacking
- Detect unauthorized uploads on DSPs like Spotify
- Monitor and protect artist identities in real time
- Prevent misuse of profiles with swift takedowns
- Safeguard revenue by ensuring accurate royalty attribution
+215
Billion
Visits to piracy websites measured in 2022
+36
Billion
Web pages scanned 24/7
+550
Million
Infringements discovered
+125
Million
Google Delistings
Frequently Asked Questions
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What types of piracy do you remove?MUSO removes infringing digital content from cyberlockers, web downloads, torrent indexes streaming sites and de-lists from search engines as standard. MUSO can also detect and remove content from social media & UGC sites with our additional service modules.
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How effective is your takedown process?File removal effectiveness varies depending on the compliance of the piracy hosting site, which is an ever-changing landscape that MUSO monitors closely. However, in every instance MUSO will perform a Google de-listing which will remove visibility of infringing results and elevate official content in search engine results.
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How do you deal with language / local contexts?Piracy is a global issue which transcends language, borders and jurisdictions. However, MUSO's piracy dataset allows us to reveal and target the top piracy sites in each market, giving us an unprecedented understanding of local & cultural piracy nuances.
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Which industries do you cover?MUSO has over 10 years of expertise in the content protection space across the Media and Entertainment Industry; working with global rights holders including TV, film, publishing, music, gaming and software.
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What reporting and analytics do you provide?MUSO’s innovative and easy to navigate dashboard allows customers to track the status of file/link detection and removal. The dashboard provides a full audit trail that can easily be downloaded via PNG or CSV.
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How does MUSO handle streaming fraud?
MUSO detects unauthorized uploads, monitors DSPs, and protects artist profiles by auditing platforms like Spotify and Apple Music.
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What is artist hijacking, and how does MUSO address it?
Artist hijacking involves unauthorized uploads to artist profiles. MUSO safeguards profiles through real-time monitoring and swift takedown actions.
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Can MUSO help monetize unauthorized content?
Yes, MUSO provides tools to identify infringing content and convert it into monetized opportunities through platforms like YouTube and DSPs.
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How does MUSO prioritize takedowns?
Using data analysis, MUSO prioritizes high-impact cases to maximize protection and revenue recovery.
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What platforms does MUSO work with?
MUSO partners with platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, TikTok, and more to enforce rights and protect content.
Hear From Our Clients
As a leader in fitness and exercise content, Les Mills is deeply committed to protecting our intellectual property rights and the integrity of our content. Partnering with MUSO has been a game-changer in this mission.
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Les Mills
MUSO's innovative solutions and proactive approach have not only streamlined our operations but also significantly reduced instances of piracy.
Legal Counsel
Les Mills
MUSO stands out as an invaluable ally in our ongoing battle against IP infringement, providing us with the tools and support necessary to safeguard our creative work.