ITSRIGHT

What ITSRIGHT does

ITSRIGHT S.r.l. is an Italian collective management organization (CMO) for neighbouring rights, headquartered in Milan and founded in 2011. The company collects and distributes compensations owed to performers (including orchestra and chorus conductors, solo and orchestral musicians) and record producers for the public use of recorded music across radio, TV, web radio, in-store radio, public performance, streaming, and private copying. It is the only performers' CMO in Italy that negotiates and collects directly from music users, and holds agreements covering the full Italian broadcasting system (RAI, Mediaset/RTI, Sky Italia, Discovery, De Agostini) plus 600+ local stations and broadcasting associations (Confindustria Radio TV, Aeranti-Corallo).

The company operates two proprietary digital platforms: MyRights, a member portal for viewing compensation statements, invoices, and payment history; and GoRights, an online services platform for mandate management and (as of February 2026) legal and tax consulting services. An analytical distribution system allocates royalties based on the actual measured use time of each sound recording within total broadcast time. Internationally, ITSRIGHT maintains reciprocal agreements with 60+ CMOs spanning 50+ countries (including SoundExchange, GVL, ADAMI, PPL, SCAPR, ISRA, FKMP, GRAMO, and others) and is a member of the SCAPR global network. The company is B Corp certified (December 2021) and listed by AGCOM as a fully compliant CMO under EU Directive 2014/26/EU and Italian Decree Law 35/2017.

ITSRIGHT's revenue model is a 11.50% commission (reduced from 13.50% effective January 2018) deducted from neighbouring rights collections on behalf of its 170,000+ mandates. Joining and mandate granting are free, with quarterly billing cycles. The company has raised no external funding, operates with 11-50 employees, and channels revenue into distributions to right holders, reserves, and (under the B Corp structure) a defined share allocated to employees and the Giuseppe Verdi Retirement Home in Milan.

Name

ITSRIGHT

Legal name

ITSRIGHT S.r.l.

Website

https://itsright.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ITSRIGHT is an Italian collective management organization that collects and distributes neighbouring rights royalties owed to performers and record producers for the public use of recorded music, serving 170,000+ mandates with 60+ reciprocal agreements across 50+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Neighbouring Rights Management

NAICS

Music Publishers (51223)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Neighboring Rights Collection (Sound Recording Performance Rights) (MPAIAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Neighboring Rights (Master Performance Rights) Administration (MPAIAAAH), Global Rights Representation & Sub-Publishing/Reciprocal Collection Services (MPAIAKAI), Music Rights Administration & Royalty Processing (Admin, Accounting, Statements) (MPAIAKAD), Music & Audio Rights for Broadcast (Sync/Master/Library) (MPABANAF)

Keywords

• Neighbouring rights management
• Music royalty collection
• Collective rights management
• Music licensing services
• Performer compensation

Headquarters

HQ city

Milano

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Commission on Neighbouring Rights Collections: ITSRIGHT charges a commission fee (11.50% as of 2018, reduced from 13.50%) on neighbouring rights compensations collected on behalf of performers and producers. Joining is free; no fixed costs to grant a mandate. The commission is deducted from the royalties before distribution to right holders.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

ITSRIGHT is an Italian collective management organization that collects and distributes neighbouring rights royalties owed to performers (musicians, orchestra and chorus conductors) and record producers for the public use of their recorded music via radio, TV, web radio, in-store radio, public performance, streaming, and private copying. The company negotiates and licenses recorded music directly with broadcasters and music users, and provides digital member services through the GoRights platform and MyRights member portal. A 11.50% commission (reduced from 13.50% as of 2018) is charged on collected compensations; joining and granting a mandate is free.

Product overview

ITSRIGHT operates as a neighbouring rights collective management organization offering a unified service platform for performers and producers. The core offering consists of neighbouring rights management for collecting and distributing royalties from radio, TV, public performance, streaming, and private copying. This is supported by two digital platforms: GoRights for online services including the newly launched Legal and Tax Consulting Service, and MyRights as a personal portal for compensation management. The company also provides music licensing services for broadcasters and music users. The service model uses a commission-based fee structure with no fixed costs for mandates.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MyRights: Online portal for performers and producers to manage their neighbouring rights' compensations, check statements, view and complete invoices.
• GoRights

Products and services

• Neighbouring Rights Management for Performers Manages compensations due to performers (solo musicians, orchestra and chorus conductors) for neighbouring rights, including collection and distribution of royalties from radio, TV, public performance, streaming, and private copying. For performers mandating ITSRIGHT.
• Neighbouring Rights Management for Producers Manages compensations due to record producers (record companies and artistic producers) for neighbouring rights, handling collection and distribution of royalties from various music usages. For record producers mandating ITSRIGHT.
• Music Licensing Licensing services for music users including Radio and TV broadcasters, Web Radio operators, and In-Store Radio/Music Service providers, providing bespoke licences for the use of recorded music covered by ITSRIGHT's repertoire.
• Legal and Tax Consulting Service Digital consulting service providing personalized legal consultations, professional obligations support, and assistance with rights, contracts, and tax obligations for performers and producers. Accessed through the GoRights platform.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 170,000 mandates managed
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

50 partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• ERATO (Greece)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 October 2024New reciprocity agreement with Greek CMO ERATO, consolidating presence in Greece alongside existing partnership with Apollon.
• Sony Music Entertainment ItalymajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 November 2023Agreement with Sony Music regarding Supplementary Annual Remuneration (RAS) for artists, managed together with Nuovo IMAIE and FIMI.
• Universal Music ItaliamajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 November 2023Agreement with Universal Music regarding Supplementary Annual Remuneration (RAS) for artists.
• Warner Music ItaliamajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 November 2023Agreement with Warner Music regarding Supplementary Annual Remuneration (RAS) for artists.
• GRAMO (Norway)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 June 2023Reciprocity agreement with Norwegian CMO GRAMO, important addition to existing 50+ CMO partnerships.
• Aeranti-CorallomajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 June 2023Music licences agreements with Aeranti-Corallo (most representative Italian local radio association), Radio FRT, and Associazione TV Locali.
• EEL (Estonia)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2023Agreement with EEL, Estonian musicians' CMO, important achievement in internationalisation process.
• APOLLON (Greece)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 December 2022Agreement with APOLLON, Greek musicians' CMO, part of expanding international network.
• ISRA (India)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 October 2022New agreement with Indian collecting ISRA as part of Asian market focus.
• FKMP (South Korea)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 October 2022New agreement with FKMP, South Korean performers' CMO, strengthening Asian market presence.
• Sky ItaliacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 June 2022ITSRIGHT signed agreement with Sky on neighbouring rights due to performers and producers for music use through TV programmes (XFactor, Italia's Got Talent), on-demand channels, My Sky, SkyQ and Sky Glass devices.
• NORMA (Holland)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 May 2022Reciprocal agreement with NORMA for neighbouring rights management in Holland.
• AGATA (Lithuania)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 May 2022Reciprocal agreement with AGATA for neighbouring rights management in Lithuania.
• LAIPA (Latvia)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 May 2022Reciprocal agreement with LAIPA for neighbouring rights management in Latvia.
• RAIcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Direct agreements with RAI for neighbouring rights licensing.
• SoundExchangecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 January 2021ITSRIGHT signed international agreement with SoundExchange (USA) to manage performing rights. Expanded collaboration includes bilateral agreement for private copy collection in Italy on behalf of SoundExchange's featured artists.
• SoundExchangecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 January 2021New international agreement with SoundExchange for performers rights management, consolidating ITSRIGHT's international presence.
• CNR (Cyprus)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 31 January 2018New agreement with CNR (Cyprus) ensuring analytical collection of royalties for neighbouring rights in Cyprus.
• SPEDIDAM (France)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 February 2017Agreement with SPEDIDAM to protect Italian and French performers' repertoire in their respective countries.
• ADAMI (France)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 January 2017New agreement with French ADAMI for performing rights management, ensuring analytical collection of royalties for neighbouring rights in France.
• POSA (South Africa)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 April 2016Reciprocal agreement with POSA to manage performing rights in South Africa.
• SCFcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 September 2013Public performance: agreement with SIAE for neighbouring rights (continued collaboration).
• FIMImajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 September 2013FIMI (Italian Music Industry Federation) involved in agreements for Supplementary Annual Remuneration with major labels.
• SCAPRcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 March 2013ITSRIGHT joined SCAPR (Societies' Council for the Collective Management of Performers' Rights), a worldwide network representing over 50 performers' collective management organisations from 40 different countries. SCAPR develops strategies, formats and administrative systems for collecting and distributing payments to performers, and provides access to IPD international database.
• SCFcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 September 2011ITSRIGHT and SCF signed agreement to distribute neighbouring rights' compensations. SCF collects by law performers' rights.
• SIAEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerITSRIGHT and SIAE signed a deal on private copying remuneration. ITSRIGHT receives remuneration for private copying regarding its producers' repertoire directly from SIAE, then distributes compensations to right holders. Also agreement for public performance neighbouring rights.
• Confindustria Radio TVcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-year agreements with Confindustria Radio TV covering major Italian radio broadcasters including RTL 102.5, Radio Deejay, Radio Capital, RDS, Radio Italia, Montecarlo, Radio 105, Radio 24.
• RTI (Mediaset)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDirect agreements with RTI for all Mediaset channels for neighbouring rights licensing.
• De AgostinicoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRenewed agreement on neighbouring rights with De Agostini broadcasting operators.
• Nuovo IMAIEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgreement signed between ITSRIGHT, SCF and Nuovo IMAIE to distribute neighbouring rights' compensations, making the market liberalization fully operational.
• SENA (Holland)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgreement with SENA for neighbouring rights in Holland, part of partnerships in 30 countries.
• RAAP (Ireland)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgreement with RAAP for neighbouring rights in Ireland.
• SAMI (Sweden)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgreement with SAMI for neighbouring rights in Sweden.
• GRAMEX (Denmark)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgreement with GRAMEX for neighbouring rights in Denmark.
• GVL (Germany)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgreement with German GVL, one of the leading collecting organisations worldwide, ensuring analytical collection of royalties for musical repertoires in Germany.
• ACTRA PRS (Canada)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgreement with ACTRA PRS ensures Italian performers analytical and accurate collection of royalties for musical repertoires in Canada.
• PPL (UK)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgreement with PPL ensures Italian performers collection of royalties for musical repertoires in UK.
• LSG (Austria)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerReciprocal agreement with Austrian LSG for managing performing rights in Austria.
• AIE (Spain)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgreement signed with Spanish collecting society AIE for neighbouring rights management.
• CPRA/Geidankyo (Japan)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOperating agreement with CPRA/Geidankyo for Japan as part of international expansion.
• SoundExchange (USA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgreement with SoundExchange for United States neighbouring rights management, part of global coverage.
• Russian CMOsmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAgreements with Russian collecting societies for neighbouring rights management.
• AUDIOCOOPmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with AUDIOCOOP and IMARA network representing international collecting societies for artists' and musicians' neighbouring rights at European Parliament events.
• Società del Quartetto di MilanominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerITSRIGHT Società Benefit supports Società del Quartetto concert season, promoting live music and accessible musical experiences.
• Conservatory of Gallarate (Giacomo Puccini)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTraining project with Conservatories supporting musicians with transversal skills and business aspects of music career.
• Conservatory of Pavia (Franco Vittadini)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTraining project with Conservatories supporting musicians with transversal skills and business aspects of music career.
• DIAMO IL LAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerITSRIGHT supports DIAMO IL LA, an educational project introducing music listening in pre-schools, promoting well-being and social inclusion.
• SODAV (Senegal)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational agreement with SODAV (Senegal) for neighbouring rights management.
• Payperformers CampaignmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean campaign for fair streaming remuneration, with over 2,000 artists calling for implementation of EU Copyright Directive article 18.
• IMARAmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNetwork representing main international collecting societies for artists' and musicians' neighbouring rights.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• ADAMI: French collective management society for performers of recorded music (neighbouring rights). Direct functional peer for ITSRIGHT and a signed reciprocal agreement counterpart.
• GVL (Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten): German collective management organisation for neighbouring rights of performers and phonogram producers. Direct peer in terms of mandate administration, analytical distribution, and international reciprocal collection.
• PlayRight: Belgian collective management society for performers of recorded music. Direct European peer operating under the same EU Directive 2014/26 framework as ITSRIGHT.
• SoundExchange: US non-profit performance rights organisation for sound recording copyright owners and featured performers. Strategic reciprocal partner of ITSRIGHT; serves as the most natural large-scale performer CMO analogue by activity set.
• SAMI (Swedish Artists' and Musicians' Interest Organisation): Swedish performer CMO collecting neighbouring rights on behalf of artists and musicians. Established reciprocal-collection peer in the Nordic market with a similar mandate mandate and operational model.
• Nuovo IMAIE: Italian collecting society for performers and producers of music, operating in the same post-liberalisation neighbouring rights market as ITSRIGHT. Directly competes for mandates from performers and producers and has historically been the largest incumbent player.
• SCF (Società Consortile Fonografici): Italian collecting society for phonogram producers collecting neighbouring rights from music users. Direct competitor in the Italian neighbouring rights market with overlapping mandate populations and broadcaster licensing responsibilities.
• PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited): UK collective management organisation collecting neighbouring rights on behalf of performers and record companies. A reciprocal partner of ITSRIGHT and the most internationally analogous performer CMO, comparable in business model and operational scope.
• GRAMEX (Denmark): Danish collective management organisation for performers' and phonogram producers' neighbouring rights. Reciprocal peer with the same mandate-collection function as ITSRIGHT.

Broad incumbents

• SIAE (Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori): Italy's largest collective management organisation, focused on authors and music publishers but also handles private copying and neighbouring rights tie-ins. Strategic partner of ITSRIGHT (SIAE pays private-copying remuneration to ITSRIGHT for its producers' repertoire) but operates on a much larger scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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