Getting started

Account creation begins with identity verification to establish the creator's legal identity and eligibility to register works. Verification processes comply with anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations where applicable and ensure that ownership claims can be substantiated in disputes or audits. Once verified, the creator selects priority works for initial registration. The platform guides users through the submission of metadata, contributor details, ownership splits, and audio assets, generating the immutable provenance record for each work.

Default monitoring and enforcement settings are applied based on best practices for the creator's jurisdiction and the types of platforms where the works are most likely to circulate. Creators can review and adjust these settings to reflect their preferences for licensing, enforcement escalation, and payment thresholds. The platform provides templates and explanations to help users understand the implications of different configurations without requiring deep technical or legal expertise.

Access to dashboards begins immediately after registration. Creators view real-time or near-real-time usage data, licensing events, and settlement activity for their works. The interface highlights significant events such as new platform detections, unlicensed uses requiring attention, and completed payments. Exportable reports support integration with personal accounting systems or tax preparation workflows.

Integration for catalog owners and institutional investors involves technical and legal due diligence to assess the compatibility of existing systems, the quality of catalog metadata, and the regulatory requirements that apply to the investor's jurisdiction and portfolio structure. The platform team works with the investor's technical and legal staff to design an integration plan that addresses data migration, policy configuration, and reporting requirements.

Bulk import of catalog data begins with a reconciliation process that matches existing records against works already registered on the platform to avoid duplication and resolve conflicts. The system validates metadata quality, flags inconsistencies or gaps, and provides tools to clean and standardize data before finalizing the import. Once reconciled, the catalog is registered in batch operations that generate provenance records for all works, establishing the investor's ownership and enabling monitoring and settlement across the portfolio.

Configuration of licensing policies, escalation thresholds, and reporting views allows institutional investors to tailor the platform's behavior to their operational and risk management requirements. Investors define which types of usage trigger automatic licensing offers, which require manual review, and which escalate immediately to enforcement. Reporting views can be customized to aggregate data by geography, platform, genre, or other dimensions relevant to portfolio analysis and investor reporting.

Ongoing review of monitoring outputs and financial performance occurs through dedicated portfolio dashboards that provide institutional-grade analytics. Investors track revenue trends, identify underperforming assets, assess the effectiveness of enforcement actions, and generate reports for internal stakeholders, limited partners, or regulators. The platform supports API access for integration with proprietary analytics and risk management systems.

Platforms and white-label partners integrate CopyrightChains as a backend service that handles registration, monitoring, and settlement while allowing the partner to maintain their own user-facing brand and interface. Integration begins with technical onboarding to connect the partner's systems to the platform's APIs and ensure compatibility with existing workflows for content ingestion, user management, and payment processing.

Alignment of platform policies with structured licensing and enforcement workflows ensures that the partner's terms of service, content policies, and dispute resolution procedures operate in harmony with the automated logic provided by CopyrightChains. The platform team works with the partner to map business rules into configurable policies that the system can enforce programmatically.

Joint governance and reporting structures define how the partner and the platform collaborate on operational issues, compliance obligations, and performance monitoring. Reporting frameworks provide the partner with visibility into how the infrastructure is being used, the volume and types of usage detected, and the financial flows generated through licensing and settlement. These reports support the partner's own regulatory obligations and internal performance tracking while allowing CopyrightChains to maintain oversight of network-wide activity and ensure consistent application of policies across all integrated platforms.