Copyright Compliance System
Copyright Compliance System for Detection, Removal, and Identification
Automatically detect, identify, and remove copyrighted music before it ever gets published or goes to air. AudioShake's modular Copyright Compliance System combines music detection, identification, and removal in one pipeline. Use the full system, or adopt the components your workflow needs. Eliminate the risk of fines, takedowns, and muted streams while preserving dialogue, ambient sound, and effects.
Need clean dialogue isolation? See our dedicated Dialogue Isolation model for clean voice isolation.
Film Credits: Jaywalker Music
What is the Copyright Compliance System?
The AudioShake Copyright Compliance System is an end-to-end copyright compliance pipeline that detects music in any media file, identifies what’s licensed for enhanced cue sheet reporting, and removes copyrighted music from finished recordings when needed.
FAST channels, streaming archives, and social distribution have exponentially expanded the surfaces where content lives, and where it needs to be cleared, making copyright compliance a major drag on monetization. Manual workflows don't hold up across thousands of hours of catalog, and they haven't been able to run on live feeds before.
- Music detection
- Music identification
- Copyright music removal
Identify, remove, and document music
AudioShake Copyright Compliance System can remove copyright music from finished recordings, strip it from live broadcasts, and produce the cue sheet documentation required for rights administration.
DETECT
Music Detection Detect whether music is present in a piece of content, including noisy, fully-mixed audio where music is buried under dialogue, crowd noise, and effects.
DOCUMENT
Music Identification Detect music and isolate it to get a clean signal for rights recognition. AudioShake's Copyright Compliance System returns artist, song title, album, label, release date, and ISRC for each music segment. Reduces manual reporting work for downstream cue sheet generation and music licensing workflows.
| Musical Composition | Performer(s) | Time In / Time Out | Record Labels | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streamline Intro | kashc | 00:00:00/00:00:10 (00:00:10) | kashc/ | 0.996 |
| Wingsuits | Marcus Rivers | 00:00:10/00:01:30 (00:01:20) | Streamline Studios, LLC/ | 0.996 |
| Close Friends Anthem | Riley Chen | 00:01:50/00:02:40 (00:00:50) | Wavelength Records/ | 0.996 |
| Huck Calls | Marcus Rivers | 00:05:10/00:05:50 (00:00:40) | Streamline Studios, LLC/ | 0.996 |
REMOVE
Copyright Music Removal Live broadcast capable Strip copyrighted music from live broadcasts, sports feeds, and streams before content goes to air — in real time via the SDK. Or remove it via AudioShake Live or AudioShake's API for catalog and post-production workflows. Avoid copyright fees or takedowns by removing music, while keeping dialogue, effects, and ambient sound intact.
Film Credits: Jaywalker Music
Where teams use our Copyright Compliance System
01 FILM and TV Catalogs
Bringing legacy catalogs back into distribution. Archival series with expired or limited music rights can’t reach new distribution windows without expensive re-licensing. The system identifies and removes original music while preserving dialogue, laughter, and sound effects, so new cues can be composed and integrated without rebuilding the original mix.
More about how Jaywalker Films replaced 200+ expired tracks on legacy TV catalogs
02 SPORTS BROADCAST & ARCHIVES
When stadium music ends up in your broadcast. Stadium music, walk-up tracks, and PA bleed enter live broadcasts as copyrighted material, and expired licenses lock archival content out of redistribution. AudioShake removes copyrighted music from live feeds and highlights, preserves commentary and crowd energy, and accelerates turnaround times across television, streaming, and social.
More about how ESPN uses AudioShake across live, archival, and digital content
03 social, creator, and localized content
Copyright compliance at the scale of distribution. Content containing copyrighted music gets blocked, demonetized, or taken down — and licensed music often can't travel across territories. Our system identifies the music for cue sheet reporting, removes it where needed, and isolates dialogue for territory-specific re-scoring.
04 rightS admin & pro reporting
When cue sheets don't match what's in the content. Cue sheets are how media companies prove compliance and how PROs track which compositions are owed royalties. Because our system first isolates music, it provides a clean input for content recognition, which can otherwise be tripped up by the presence of noise and other audio. This produces a much more accurate music identification, reducing the manual editing of cue sheets, delayed royalty payments, and disputes between rights holders, distributors, and PROs.
How to use the Copyright Compliance System
01 Bring content to AudioShake
Upload full video or audio to our web app, integrate via the AudioShake API, or use the AudioShake SDK for live broadcast settings.
02 Select Copyright Compliance options
AudioShake detects and identifies copyrighted music with full metadata, and removes it from the mix where needed.
03 Export cleared audio
Output is broadcast-ready audio, prepared for catalog distribution, FAST channel licensing, broadcast delivery, or royalty reporting.
FAQ
Can teams use individual components of the system, or only the full pipeline?
Both. The AudioShake Copyright Compliance System is modular. Teams can run the full pipeline end-to-end (detection through cue sheet generation) or adopt individual components inside their existing workflow.
How does the AudioShake Copyright Compliance System fit into existing rights administration workflows?
Cue sheets export in formats compatible with existing rights management systems and submission to PROs like ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and PRS.
What happens when a track can't be identified?
Detection still works. The AudioShake system can locate and timestamp music in a file even when identification doesn't return a match. This is common for original scores, in-house compositions, and custom or unreleased music that hasn't been registered with a PRO or rights database.
What metadata does music identification return?
For each identified segment, AudioShake returns the song title, artist, album, label, release date, and ISRC.