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title: Ownership: who owns it now
publisher: RapCanon
canonical: https://rapcanon.com/ownership/
license: CC-BY-4.0
retrieved: 2026-08-12
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> Masters, publishing and catalogue transactions traced through filings rather than press releases, with the ownership chain published.

Ownership

 
# Who owns it now.

 
Masters, publishing and catalogue transactions, traced through filings rather than announcements. Ownership is checkable, so we check it and publish the chain instead of the adjective.

 
 
 — Catalogues traced 
 — Transactions logged 
 On event Cadence 
 Filed Sourced from filings, not press 
 
 
as_of 2026-08-11 · updated as each installment publishes · a dash means no published figure, not zero

 
 

 
 
 
What this beat covers

 
 Ledger 
### The catalogue transaction record

Who sold, who bought, what was included, and what the artist retained. Updated on event rather than on a schedule.
 
 Investigation 
### Independent, or just labelled that way

Ownership chains for artists described as independent, traced to whoever actually holds the rights.
 
 
 
Nothing published yet.

 
 

 
 
 
 
Free, and actually useful

 
## The registration checklist that keeps your royalties out of the black box

 
Most unmatched royalties are a registration problem, and registration is the part an artist controls without a lawyer. This is the checklist: every place a work has to be registered, every field that causes a mismatch, and the order to do it in.

 
 
 Send me the checklist 
 
 
No list exists yet. It opens with the first study, and the checklist goes out to everyone waiting on day one.

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## How to cite this page

**APA**
RapCanon. (2026). Ownership: who owns it now. Retrieved from https://rapcanon.com/ownership/

**BibTeX**
```bibtex
@misc{rapcanon-ownership,
  title  = {Ownership: who owns it now},
  author = {{RapCanon}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://rapcanon.com/ownership/},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-08-12}
}
```

**Wikipedia**
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{{cite web |title=Ownership: who owns it now |url=https://rapcanon.com/ownership/ |publisher=RapCanon |access-date=2026-08-12}}
```

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