About CBMS Networks, Inc.
Our mission is to build the world's first completely automated, universal and comprehensive rights management clearinghouse
for music and video.
Existing approaches to digital rights management are built around identification of
specific performances of copyrighted material (the original version of "Yesterday" or Frank Sinatra's version of "My Way", for
example). Up until now there has not been an effective way to automate identification of derivative works (such as various renditions
and covers of original pieces).
Currently the discovery, identification and clearing of
derivative works are highly cumbersome processes involving manual
labor of music and licensing experts. While these processes may work for incorporating known copyrighted material
in the development of well-financed creative work (studio films, TV ads, etc.),
they completely break down when faced with the vast amounts of new content made
available daily on the Web. Due to the inability to discover, identify and clear these works,
rights holders forgo hundreds of millions of dollars in various royalties and license fees.
In addition, online content providers face substantial legal liabilities when they are unable
to identify copyrighted material in a cost-efficient manner.
CBMS solves these problems with the world's first automated derivative work identification technology.