{
  "id": 15783815,
  "title": "MusicInfra CEO Talks Amazon Music Partnership & Song Clearance: ‘People Told Me I Was Crazy’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/musicinfra-ceo-talks-amazon-music-partnership-song-clearance-people",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-20T17:55:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Billboard",
    "slug": "billboard",
    "url": "https://www.billboard.com/pro/musicinfra-ceo-on-amazon-music-and-song-clearance/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Music Infrastructure Company (MusicInfra) is a tech-driven, rights management firm that offers data processing, rights-matching engines, and royalty clearinghouse services to digital streaming platforms and rights-holders. Launched in 2023, the company boasts backers like Raine Group, UTA Ventures, and Peter Thiel's Snö Ventures. Recently, MusicInfra has signed a partnership with Amazon Music, becoming the rights management support provider for music used in video content. This collaboration offers MusicInfra the opportunity to work with the National Music Publishers' Association's (NMPA) roughly 800 members.\n\nIn an interview with Billboard, MusicInfra co-founder and CEO Björn Lindvall discussed the significance of Amazon as a client. Lindvall explained that MusicInfra provides universal financial infrastructure like Plaid, scalable and customizable tech in the background like AWS, and a cashier-like component for inventory tracking and reporting. The company's four-step process includes matching songs, providing a bucket of clear songs for Amazon, determining payments through a deal engine, and paying rights-holders and publishers.\n\nLindvall shared that scaling MusicInfra's tech stack for Amazon required a machine-like approach, with a 15-person team building repeatable processes and data to manage Amazon's clearance requirements. The streamlined process enables clients to increase revenue by releasing more music faster while maintaining compliance and paying rights-holders appropriately. As the music industry becomes more focused on infrastructure, Lindvall believes that infrastructure is crucial for increasing operational leverage and maximizing revenue. He sees Amazon Music's partnership as a significant step towards achieving MusicInfra's ultimate goal of creating an international clearinghouse for music rights.",
  "summary": "Co-founder Björn Lindvall says a growing number of music execs think tech infrastructure is essential to efficient data processes, licensing agreements compliance and revenue growth.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}