Archival infrastructure for NOLA's working artists
The 10-Minute Meta
Ten minutes to register a work, bind its metadata, and turn a release into a defended asset. Registration as ritual.
- The Shop Workspace, New Orleans
- Universal creator intake — fill once, share forever
- System · three moves
The problem
Model collapse bleaches the working artist. Unregistered work is undefended work. Every interface is a mirror — and we refuse funhouse glass that thins, lightens, or flattens a person into data.
Every algorithm, a reflection.
Three moves
Audit the catalog
Who owns master, publishing, and neighboring rights? Upload the catalog; we map every rights holder, gap, and leak. Know what you own before you release.
Register and bind before release
One verified intake binds ISRC, ISWC, IPI, splits, and story. Copyright office, PRO, and distributor all synced.
Live in the black
You own the master. You keep the publishing. Black ledger means paid, proven, perpetual. No erasure.
The School of the Registry
How this generation makes it right and prospers.
Registration as ritual
Copyright isn't paperwork — it's ceremony. Every song gets a birth certificate.
Splits before studio
Handshake before tracking. Ledger before mix. No friendship lost to metadata.
Master ownership
Own your masters. License, don't assign. 100% reverts to the creator estate.
Neighboring rights
Performance royalties most NOLA artists never collect — SoundExchange, neighboring, global.
Story as IP
Liner notes, oral history, place. Narrative registered as trademark and provenance.
Teach the next
Every Registry graduate mentors two. Curriculum scales culture, not just catalog.
The ask
- A single creator profile card: name, story, splits, verified rights.
- A ledger that refuses to forget.
- Receipts to prove it, and bandwidth to teach the next.
Cohort
25 NOLA creators
Onboarded through the Shop
Support
Weekly office hours
Catalog review included
Network
The Prototype
Mentor and referral flow
Intake
Scanning nights
At the Shop as Registry studio