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Pilot Clef with one work

Choose one work you administer. Evaluate how your team can handle a licensing request, record creator terms, and follow approval through to publication and reported payment.

Propose your pilotWhat makes a good case
Sheet music for one melody line written across six treble-clef staves in 4/4 time with no key signature. The tune enters after a half rest, a repeat sign follows the first bar, two notes carry flat signs, and the excerpt closes on a half note and a half rest.
Stephen Foster, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, 1854. Foster lived on sheet-music royalties, since the law of his day gave composers no right to be paid for performances. In debt in 1857, he sold the future royalties on his published songs, and he died in 1864 with 38 cents in his pocket.

Pilot record for one work

  1. AuthorityNeeded
  2. IdentityNeeded
  3. RequesterNeeded
  4. CreatorNeeded
  5. SettlementNeeded

Every named party approves what the case publishes.

Choose a work with clear rights

The best case also has a willing requester. A good pilot has five things in place before work starts. Each one becomes part of the public record.

Clear authority

A label or publisher can evidence the relevant composition, master, lyric, performance, voice, and likeness rights or mark them out of scope.

Stable identity

The work or recording has an ISWC, a song code from The MLC, ISRC, or another durable registry-backed key.

Actual requester

A separate producer, developer, agency, or AI company intends a bounded use and will report what it publishes.

Creator consent

The creator participates in disclosure decisions and approves every public reference to their name, work, receipt, and payment.

Feasible settlement

An external provider can handle payment and payout duties while Clef records final evidence and arithmetic.

Pilots pay half Clef’s setup fee

Your team can install and administer Clef itself, or have Clef set it up in your infrastructure and hand it over to your administrators.

Pilot organizations receive 50% off Clef’s standard setup fee for the agreed scope. We quote the standard fee and discounted price for the same agreed work. Hosting and ongoing services are priced separately.

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What the case will publish

Every named party approves the exact information to publish. Contracts, personal details and commercial terms remain accessible to the authorized parties. The public receipt is signed separately with its agreed disclosure scope.

Read the case-study protocol ↗
Deployment
Source revision, configuration boundaries, elapsed setup time, and exceptions.
Decision
The public fields agreed by participants before signing: the catalog reference, approved use, record status and commitments to the supporting private evidence.
After use
Publication report, compliance review, external payment and payout evidence, reconciliation, and contradictions.
Findings
Measured results, workflow improvements, unresolved issues and the next change to test.

Start with one controlled work

Tell us which rights you administer, who wants to use the work, and what approval would require. Together, we can define a pilot your team can evaluate.