Infrastructure — MENA
RED AMBER PUBLISHING
Rights Infrastructure · Cairo · London
Your music is being used.
You are not being paid for all of it.
Catalogs travel across borders.
Rights systems rarely follow them.
Structure · Visibility · Collection
Music travels globally.
Rights systems rarely follow.
The problem
Your music is being used — but not fully paid.
Rights not set up.
Metadata broken.
Systems disconnected.
Rights exist.
Revenue is not being collected.
What needs to be in place
For your music to generate income, five things must be in place.
Rights Systems
- 01Clear ownershipRights documented and verified.
- 02Complete metadataTitles, credits, identifiers — correct and consistent.
- 03Proper publishingCompositions registered and structured.
- 04Global registrationPerformance, neighbouring, mechanical — every market.
- 05Connected systemsDSPs, PROs and collection bodies linked to your catalog.
If any one of these is missing, you don't get paid.
The MENA reality
One of the largest infrastructure gaps for artists from this region.
Cross-border collection is inconsistent. Arabic script is invisible to many international systems. Neighbouring rights go almost entirely unclaimed.
Read the MENA breakdown →Global usage.
Local leakage.
Performance
Neighbouring
Mechanical
Invisible metadata means invisible ownership.
What we actually do
We start with a complete picture of your catalog, rights and gaps.
Registration
Publishing & rights setup.
Works registered correctly, in the right territories. The structural foundation everything else depends on.
- Agreements & ownershipWhat you signed — what you actually hold.
- Metadata integrityArabic, transliteration and English aligned across every system.Read →
- Neighbouring rightsPerformers and recording owners — claimed across territories.Read →
- Mechanical rightsReproduction royalties — registered with the right societies.Read →
- Cross-border coveragePROs, CMOs and societies coordinated across markets.Read →
Territory — Cairo / London
One catalog. Two operational geographies. Cultural ground in Cairo. Rights infrastructure in London.
Cairo
Cultural ecosystem &
regional infrastructure.
regional infrastructure.
- 01Artist relationships and on-the-ground operations.
- 02Arabic metadata, regional naming conventions, transliteration.
- 03Local rights realities — what is collected, what is not.
- 04Catalog mapping at source.
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London
Publishing entity &
global rights systems.
global rights systems.
- 01UK publishing entity — international standing.
- 02PRO, CMO and society registrations across territories.
- 03Cross-border collection and reconciliation.
- 04Administrative architecture, reporting, continuity.
Most catalogs leak between these two layers. We close the gap between them.
Administration
- Do you take ownership?
- No. Ownership stays with you. We register, structure and operate the infrastructure on your behalf.
- Already have a publisher?
- We don't replace your publisher. We audit what's in place, identify gaps, and coordinate fixes so the system actually functions.
- How long does setup take?
- Initial audit and setup typically runs 2–6 weeks. Administration begins immediately afterward.
Catalogs disappear long before revenue does.
In practice
We don't create new revenue. We surface what already exists.
Before
Artist with 20 tracks
- — Distribution active, publishing absent
- — No neighbouring rights registration
- — Arabic titles unmatched in international systems
- — Territorial coverage incomplete
- — Revenue accumulating unclaimed
After
Same catalog. Operating as infrastructure.
- — Publishing established and registered
- — Recordings linked to compositions across territories
- — Metadata aligned across Arabic, transliteration and English
- — Neighbouring and mechanical activated
- — Multiple revenue streams collecting
The revenue was always there. It was just never being collected.
The archive
Each layer of the infrastructure, filed and explained.
Next step
We start with a review of your catalog.
No commitment until we understand what is required.