The regulator reads the ledger for free.

The oversight problem in broadcast has never been a lack of authorities. Every market the platform operates in has a copyright office, a communications authority, a ministry of information, and one or more collection societies. What has been missing is not the regulator. What has been missing is the ledger the regulator could read.

GlueArrow closes that gap with a single commitment: every authority with a legitimate oversight role over broadcast in a market the platform operates in is offered a free, read-only view of the same ledger the platform settles on. No negotiated access. No quarterly spreadsheet hand-off. No paywall at the audit trail.

What the authority view contains

• Every verified broadcast on the network, at the second it aired, by station.
• Every licence fee collected from each partner station, broken down by period.
• Every distribution paid out to each rights-holder, with the reference the payout carries.
• Every discrepancy flagged — a station playing works outside its licensed catalogue, a play reported but not detected, a detection without a matching registration.
• Breakdowns by geography, genre, and time-of-day — the shape of the market, not just the totals.

What the authority cannot do

The view is read-only. An authority cannot edit a log entry, alter a distribution, or republish the data as its own. The authority audits. The platform settles. Those two jobs stay separate by design.

Why this is policy, not a product feature

A transparency surface that the platform can withdraw at will is not transparency. It is a press release. The authority view is written into the standard under which partner stations sign on, and written into the settlement rail that pays rights-holders. Removing it would require rewriting the platform, not flipping a switch. The commitment has the weight of the architecture behind it.

Why this is how we work with collection societies

Collection societies in most of the markets the platform rolls out into have been asked, for a generation, to prove what they collected and where it went. They have rarely been given the data to do so. The authority view inverts that relationship. A society that partners with the platform receives a filtered view of the same ledger — limited to the works of its affiliated members — with which to verify its own distributions. The society does not have to trust the platform to do this. The society can see the same rows the platform sees.