Rightscom

What Rightscom does

Rightscom Limited is a London-based private consultancy founded in January 2000 that specialises in the creation, management, and communication of metadata supporting the management, trading, and protection of music intellectual property rights and content in digital environments. The firm operates with a four-person team (Vanessa Bastian, Mark Isherwood, Ngozi Okorie, and Niels Rump) and serves music rights owners and administrators, digital service providers, and standards bodies across the global music industry value chain. Core technology expertise spans XML-based messaging standards development, digital rights management (including DRM systems such as Fraunhofer IIS' Multimedia Protection Protocol), and metadata communication architectures.

The firm's commercial model is professional services: it sells bespoke consultancy on commercial strategy, technology architecture, and implementation support to clients including major record labels (Sony, Warner, Universal, EMI), collecting societies (PRS for Music), broadcasters, and institutional clients such as the European Commission and JISC. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Rightscom additionally holds the role of embedded secretariat and technical coordinator for DDEX (Digital Data Exchange, LLC), the industry standards body whose membership has grown to over 140 companies across the digital music ecosystem since its formation in 2006.

The company is an independent private limited company with no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, no subsidiaries, and no marketing or distribution channels beyond professional reputation and network-based client acquisition. Its competitive position rests on the deep industry relationships and standards authorship of its named consultants rather than on proprietary software or scaled platform assets.

Name

Rightscom

Legal name

Rightscom Limited

Website

https://rightscom.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Rightscom is a London-based consultancy that advises music rights owners, digital service providers, and standards bodies on metadata, digital rights management, and industry standards, with an embedded role in the DDEX standards organisation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Music IP and Digital Rights Consulting

NAICS

Music Publishers (51223), Music Publishers (512230)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Performance Rights Administration (PRO Affiliation, Cue Sheet/Setlist Processing) (MPAIABAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Global Rights Representation & Sub-Publishing/Reciprocal Collection Services (MPAIAKAI), Public Performance/Neighboring Rights for AV Uses (Cue Sheet & Reporting Services) (MPAIALAK)

Keywords

• Music rights consulting
• Digital music metadata
• Intellectual property advisory
• Music industry standards
• DDEX standards support

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Consultancy Services: Professional consulting services providing analysis of digital music landscape changes, commercial strategies, technology architecture and implementation support. Services help clients implement adaptable business, technical and process solutions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Core offering

Rightscom is an international consultancy that provides specialized advisory services for the creation, management and communication of metadata supporting music intellectual property rights and digital content. The firm analyzes the impact of operational, technical and commercial changes on the digital music landscape and designs business, technical and process solutions for rights owners, administrators, collecting societies, digital service providers, broadcasters and standards bodies. It also delivers ongoing secretarial and technical support to DDEX (Digital Data Exchange), the industry standards body.

Product overview

Rightscom is a consultancy firm (not a software product company) offering specialized advisory services for the music industry. The core offering is Rightscom Consultancy Services, which provides strategic and technical expertise in music metadata management, rights trading, and digital content protection. A complementary service module covers DDEX Support Services, wherein Rightscom provides ongoing secretarial and technical coordination for DDEX, the industry standards body for digital music metadata exchange. The portfolio is service-based rather than a software platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rightscom Consultancy Services Professional consultancy services specializing in the creation, management, and communication of metadata that supports the management, trading, and protection of music intellectual property rights and digital content in network environments. Engagements cover analysis of digital music landscape changes, business and technology architecture design, and implementation support for rights owners, collecting societies, digital service providers, broadcasters and standards bodies.
• DDEX Support Services Full secretarial, project management and technical support services for DDEX (Digital Data Exchange, LLC), the not-for-profit music industry standards organization. Includes coordination of technical standards development, membership support, and administrative management of DDEX operations such as plenary meetings and document management.

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• DDEX (Digital Data Exchange, LLC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2006Rightscom team was instrumental in supporting and project managing the creation and launch of DDEX in 2006. Rightscom continues to provide full secretarial and technical support to DDEX's work, including coordination of technical standards development. Rightscom team members serve as significant contributors to DDEX's success. DDEX is a not-for-profit, membership standards organization focused on creation of digital music value chain standards.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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