Rightnote helps institutions, rights-management organizations, music companies and creative-sector stakeholders move from policy ambition to operational systems — copyright strategy, collective management, licensing, market development and training.
A senior network led by co-founders Marc Baldantoni and Elias Merad, then reinforced with matched specialists for each assignment: CMO operations, publishing, labels, live, public policy, training or market strategy.
Rightnote is not an anonymous network: assignments are led by Marc Baldantoni and Elias Merad, then reinforced with senior specialists when the scope requires it.
Co-founder of Rightnote. Senior advisor for rights, collective management, music-market strategy and institutional projects.
Works with CMOs, public institutions, music companies and creative-sector stakeholders on strategy, operating models and implementation readiness.
Co-founder of Rightnote. Senior advisor for creative-market development, rights education, music-business strategy and international programs.
Supports projects where sector expertise, stakeholder alignment, training and practical delivery need to come together.
A visual overview of the work: copyright systems, collective management, market strategy, training and implementation support across international assignments.
Each mission combines a capability area with clear deliverables: diagnosis, roadmap, implementation support and training.
Rights frameworks, remuneration logic, repertoire protection, licensing models and practical education for rightsholders.
Approach: start with the decision to be made, connect rights logic to repertoire data and operating constraints, then deliver material teams can actually use.
CMO strategy, governance, membership, documentation, tariff logic, reciprocal agreements and distribution readiness.
Approach: turn a complex institutional problem into a practical sequence: rules, workflows, responsibilities, member education and implementation milestones.
Market diagnostics, policy roadmaps, investment priorities, stakeholder mapping and institutional capacity building.
Artist development, label operations, publishing, live economics, release planning, international growth and metadata discipline.
Workshops and programs for artists, managers, publishers, labels, CMOs and public-sector teams.
Clear education around platform economics, data, rights protection, AI-related questions and creator-facing strategy.
Rightnote engagements are designed around material a team can use internally: to decide, explain, align stakeholders and move into implementation.
Clarify governance, documentation, tariffs, repertoire data, membership education and the first realistic implementation sequence.
Translate cultural-policy goals into market mechanisms, stakeholder responsibilities, investment priorities and measurable actions.
Build training programs that creators, managers, labels, publishers and institutions can understand and apply.
Connect rights, release planning, metadata, publishing, live, partnerships and market-entry strategy into one practical roadmap.
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Governance model, repertoire-documentation workflow, member education sequence and first implementation roadmap for a new rights-management initiative.
Stakeholder map, investment priorities, training needs and execution plan linking public ambition to music-market mechanisms.
Release planning, metadata process, publishing and live-market priorities translated into a practical roadmap for management and partners.
Rightnote operates as a senior advisory network: 15 consultants, each with 20+ years of experience across music, copyright, collective management, public policy and strategy consulting, with 120+ projects across Western Europe and MENA.
The network brings together profiles shaped by leading music and rights organisations — including SACEM, Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Believe — and combines that operator knowledge with the structured problem-solving standards associated with top strategy consultancies such as McKinsey & Company and Bain & Company.
Rightnote on LinkedIn →Specialists are matched to the assignment: CMO operations, publishing, labels, live, public policy, artist development, training or market-entry strategy.
Rightnote is built for experienced judgement, not junior generalist delivery. Engagements are led by people who understand the sector's operational realities.
Backgrounds represented across the network include SACEM, Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Believe.
Work is structured with clear hypotheses, stakeholder maps, decision notes, roadmaps and implementation sequencing — not generic advisory slides.
Rightnote is built for projects where legal, economic, institutional and market realities meet. The work is not to produce generic advice — it is to help a team understand what must be decided, documented, negotiated, taught or implemented next.
Roadmaps, operating models, training decks, stakeholder memos, documentation workflows and decision notes — not vague recommendations.
Copyright, neighbouring rights, CMOs, metadata, licensing, publishing, live economics and platform questions are handled as connected market infrastructure.
Rightnote supports strategy, operations and education. Formal legal opinions stay with licensed counsel in the relevant jurisdiction.
Clarify stakeholders, constraints, legal/policy context, market incentives and operational blockers.
Turn the problem into governance, workflow, training, licensing, roadmap or market-development options.
Produce the memo, roadmap, training deck, operating model or stakeholder plan needed to move forward.
Help teams explain, negotiate, train, implement and iterate without losing the strategic intent.
Rightnote is an advisory practice. Each assignment is scoped according to the jurisdiction, market and institutional context.
Most engagements begin with a focused diagnostic, followed by a short roadmap, working documents and review sessions. The output is designed to help a team make decisions and move into implementation.
Short diagnostics can run for two to four weeks. Strategy, structuring or training programs often run for six to twelve weeks, depending on the number of stakeholders and deliverables.
Yes. Rightnote is built for international work and can operate remotely, with in-person workshops or stakeholder sessions when the project requires them.
Rightnote works primarily across Europe, francophone Africa and the MENA region, with selected international assignments depending on scope. Formal legal advice remains the role of licensed local counsel in the relevant jurisdiction.
Rightnote does not replace legal counsel. It helps institutions and market actors translate rights, policy and music-business questions into practical models, roadmaps, training and implementation documents.
Yes, at strategy and operations level: governance, membership, repertoire documentation, licensing logic, stakeholder education and implementation sequencing.
Yes. Programs can be designed for artists, managers, labels, public agencies, CMO teams or mixed-sector cohorts.
Short editorial notes can be expanded into full articles as the site grows.
Governance, repertoire data, membership education, tariff logic and distribution-readiness before public promises.
Rights literacy is not communication polish; it determines documentation quality, trust and adoption.
A market roadmap only works when incentives, responsibilities, funding and delivery capacity are explicit.
Send a short note with your context. You will receive a proposed scope and a clear next step — no sales call required.