The licensing rail — stations pay us, we pay the artists.
A new settlement rail that replaces the broken CMO model. Stations pay one GlueArrow music licence, artists are paid through the WikiGlue wallet, and regulators watch the same ledger for free.
The GlueArrow licensing rail is live. On the nineteenth of April, the platform began operating as the licence of record for music played on its network — replacing a patchwork of collection societies with a single, verifiable settlement flow.
How the rail works
- A station pays one monthly GlueArrow music licence — not three overlapping CMO invoices.
- Every play is detected, timestamped, and attributed to the rights-holder on the same ledger the station uses.
- The artist is paid through the WikiGlue wallet on the weekly cycle — mobile-money, bank transfer, or Wallet balance, at the artist's choice.
- The regulator gets a free, read-only view of the same ledger — no negotiated access, no quarterly spreadsheet hand-off.
Why this replaces the old model
The collection-society model, in most of our markets, has never settled down to the level of the individual play. It has settled at the level of the estimate, and the estimate has never arrived on time. The licensing rail inverts the arrangement: the detection is the invoice, the wallet is the payout, and the regulator can audit at any moment.
“The detection is the invoice. The wallet is the payout. The regulator reads the ledger for free.”