Found Royalties LLC
Terms of Service.
By checking “I agree” at signup or completing onboarding, you're entering into an agreement with Found Royalties LLC (“Found Royalties”), a music publishing administration company. You are the “Artist”, or an “Authorized Representative.” The “Service” means the Found Royalties website and dashboard together with the publishing administration work described in these Terms. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data and applies alongside these Terms.
We find your missing royalties and make sure you get paid. No upfront fees. No ownership grab. You keep 100% of your music.
Section 1. What Found Royalties Does For You
Found Royalties handles the administrative side of your publishing so you can focus on making music. That includes:
- Registering your songs with PROs, mechanical agencies, and collection societies — wherever we're able to collect.
- Hunting down royalties you've already earned but haven't been paid.
- Collecting and sending you your share of every dollar we find.
- Handling registration paperwork on your behalf so you don't have to.
We only administer your share of each song. We have zero authority over any co-writer's interest. And we will never license your sync rights without your explicit written approval.
Your ownership is untouched. This agreement gives Found Royalties a non-exclusive right to administer your submitted catalog — nothing more. You keep 100% of your copyright, always. The writer's share of performance income that PROs pay directly to you is yours entirely and is never touched by Found Royalties.
1.1 Metadata
You agree to give us accurate song info: writer splits, co-writer details, ISWC and ISRC codes, and release dates. If we receive incomplete or inaccurate data, we can't be held responsible for any resulting gaps.
1.2 Limited Power of Attorney
To register your songs, we need a narrow power of attorney — strictly limited to filing registrations with PROs, mechanical agencies, and collection societies for your submitted catalog. This cannot be used to transfer ownership, and it expires when this agreement ends (except as needed to collect during the 12-month post-termination window).
1.3 Digital Performance Royalties
If you own the sound recording rights, you can separately opt in to authorize Found Royalties to register those recordings with SoundExchange and collect the owner's share. The featured-artist share is never included.
1.4 Non-Exclusive Administration Grant
The rights you grant are non-exclusive. You remain free to use, license, and deal in your songs yourself. While a Composition is in your submitted catalog, you agree that Found Royalties is the only publishing administrator registering and collecting your share of it. You may withdraw a Composition by written notice and we will release or correct our registrations for it.
Do not submit a Composition already subject to another publishing or administration agreement. Record-label (master) agreements are a separate matter — Found Royalties claims no interest in master recording income.
Section 2. Your Catalog
“Compositions” means a musical work you authored or co-authored that is part of your submitted catalog. “Royalty Income” means publishing income from those songs: performance royalties (publisher's share), mechanical royalties, sync income, and related publishing revenue. It does not include master recording income.
Priority Accounts (Found Blueprint) may be selected at our discretion for proactive back-catalog audit and filing. Priority status costs you nothing extra. You may opt out of any category of that work by writing to hello@foundroyalties.com.
Section 3. Fees
There's no upfront cost. Found Royalties is paid only as a percentage of Royalty Income actually collected:
- Performance royalties (publisher's share) — 15%. You receive 85%.
- Mechanical royalties — 20%. You receive 80%.
- Sync you source (passive) — 20%.
- Sync we source (active) — 35%.
- All other royalty income — 15%.
We will never license your sync rights without your explicit written approval. Historical royalties we recover are treated the same as any other royalty of the same type. Percentages apply to amounts that actually reach Found Royalties after society charges.
Payouts
Payments are quarterly by ACH, PayPal, or Stripe once your balance reaches $25. Societies typically run 6–12 months behind.
Section 4. Term and Cancellation
There is no minimum term. Either party may end the agreement with 30 days' written notice to hello@foundroyalties.com. After termination we continue collecting royalties earned during the term for 12 months, then we transfer or release society registrations. Within 60 days after that window closes, you receive the final statement and remaining balance.
Section 5. Your Warranties
You warrant that you have the right to appoint us on the shares you submit, that the metadata is accurate, and that you will not submit works under conflicting administration.
Section 6. Limitation of Liability
Societies control matching, holding periods, and black-box redistribution. We are not liable for royalties that cannot be recovered because a work was unregistered, mismatched, or aged out before filing. Our aggregate liability is limited to fees actually retained by us on your catalog in the twelve months before the claim.
Section 7. General
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York. We may update the public site copy at any time; material changes to fees require your written sign-off and are never applied retroactively. Questions: hello@foundroyalties.com. See also our Privacy Policy.