The Rights Intelligence Glossary

What is Registration Drift?

Registration Drift is the measurable divergence between the expected rights state and the currently observable rights state for a musical work or recording. It occurs because rights information for a single composition is held independently across hundreds of organisations - performance rights organisations, mechanical societies, digital service providers, and publishers - none of which is required to reconcile its records against the others.

Registration Drift is not a single problem but a category of eight distinct types: Ownership Drift, Registration Drift, Publishing Drift, Territory Drift, Collection Drift, Rights Chain Drift, Commercial Drift, and Evidence Drift. Each is assessed independently and each carries its own evidence trail.

See also: Asset Integrity, Recovery Intelligence

What is Asset Integrity?

Asset Integrity is the measurable confidence in the current integrity of a rights asset, calculated through Evidence Reconciliation across multiple independent evidence sources. It is expressed as a score from 0 to 100 across seven dimensions: identity, ownership, publishing, registrations, territories, evidence completeness, and commercial integrity.

Asset Integrity is not a static label. It is continuously recalculated as new evidence is gathered, meaning a score reflects the confidence that exists today, not a permanent certification of a work's rights position.

See also: Evidence Reconciliation, Evidence Confidence

What is Evidence Reconciliation?

Evidence Reconciliation is the proprietary methodology by which Architect Recon transforms fragmented rights evidence from independent sources into trusted Rights Intelligence. Rather than relying on a single rights database, Evidence Reconciliation continuously collects, classifies, weights, and reconciles evidence from recordings, compositions, publishers, collection societies, and other authoritative sources.

The methodology resolves conflicts between sources rather than simply aggregating what each one reports - which is the distinction between Rights Intelligence and a basic metadata lookup.

See also: Rights Intelligence, Evidence Confidence

What is Rights Intelligence?

Rights Intelligence is the reconciled interpretation of all available rights evidence for a given work, recording, or catalogue. It is produced through Evidence Reconciliation and is distinct from raw metadata or a single-source lookup, because it reflects the outcome of comparing and resolving evidence across every relevant independent source simultaneously.

See also: Evidence Reconciliation, Asset Integrity

What is Recovery Intelligence?

Recovery Intelligence is the evidence-backed identification and prioritisation of recoverable value once Registration Drift has been detected. It surfaces Estimated Unreconciled Value together with the underlying evidence pack, so that a recovery claim can be defended before it is ever submitted to a collection society, publisher, or platform.

See also: Estimated Unreconciled Value, Registration Drift

What is Estimated Unreconciled Value?

Estimated Unreconciled Value is a reconciliation-based estimate of the potential value associated with detected rights variance, based on the evidence available at the time of assessment. It is explicitly not a valuation and not a claim of confirmed lost royalties.

The estimate improves progressively as further evidence is gathered through statement ingestion, society correspondence, and ongoing reconciliation - it is a starting confidence level, not a fixed number.

See also: Recovery Intelligence

What is Evidence Confidence?

Evidence Confidence is a weighted measure of how reliable a given piece of rights evidence is, based on the recency of the data, the authority of the source it came from, and how consistent it is with evidence from other independent sources.

Every Rights Intelligence conclusion is accompanied by an Evidence Confidence assessment, so that what is verified, what is partially verified, and what remains unconfirmed are always stated explicitly rather than implied.

See also: Evidence Reconciliation

What is the difference between Expected Rights Position and Observed Rights Position?

Expected Rights Position is the rights state that should exist for an asset based on its known ownership, registration, and territorial history. Observed Rights Position is the rights state that is actually observable right now through direct audit of the relevant sources.

The variance between the two - when what should be true and what is currently true do not match - is what Architect Recon defines as Registration Drift.

See also: Registration Drift

Does Architect Recon replace PROs, collection societies, or DSPs?

No. Architect Recon is an independent Rights Intelligence layer that operates alongside existing performance rights organisations, mechanical societies, and digital service providers, without replacing any of them. It reconciles evidence drawn from those systems into a single, trusted picture, and any corrective action is submitted back into the same systems that already administer rights and royalties.

How is Asset Integrity different from a royalty audit?

A royalty audit is a point-in-time investigation that typically begins after a royalty statement has already reported a problem - it is reactive and downstream. Asset Integrity is a continuously updated measure, monitored upstream, that detects Registration Drift before it produces a financial consequence rather than after.

The two are related but not interchangeable: an audit looks backward at what has already happened; Asset Integrity monitoring looks at what is true right now.

Can a single catalogue use Architect Recon?

Yes. The same Evidence Reconciliation methodology applies to one catalogue or to an institutional portfolio - a single recording can be submitted by ISRC and returns an Asset Integrity Score, the drift detected against it, and the evidence behind each finding. Independent artists, songwriters, and smaller rights administrators use the same engine as enterprise clients, right-sized to what they hold.