The Battlefield of Music Rights / Claims, Scams, and Unseen Profits / Keynote by Erik Gossas from Lucille Group

A deep dive into at how misplaced claims, legacy registrations and messy metadata can divert artists’ royalties — and practical steps to reclaim them.

The music industry’s rights ecosystem is more complicated than ever, and that complexity can quietly cost creators money. In this keynote, Erik Gossas from Lucille Group gives his experienced view based on his focus on Youtube on how incorrect claims, outdated distributor agreements and inconsistent metadata lead to misallocated royalties — and how artists, managers and teams can act to fix it.

Erik breaks down the real mechanics behind where income gets lost, using practical examples and insight to spotting problematic registrations, documenting ownership, and engaging with distributors, publishers and platforms to recover revenue. The talk also covers how new sources of content — livestream channels, playlists and AI-based samples — add fresh challenges to rights tracking and what to do about it now.

Relevant for artists, producers, managers, label and publisher staff, and anyone responsible for metadata or royalty oversight who wants usable tools rather than theory.

About Erik Gossas and Lucille Group

Erik Gossas works with Lucille Group on rights management, metadata cleanup and reclaim strategies that help creators recover misallocated royalties and simplify ongoing administration on Youtube. Lucille Group partners with artists and music businesses to resolve registration issues, standardize metadata and implement workflows that reduce future problems — practical, hands-on work that informs the keynote’s focus on actionable solutions.