FAQ
Four doors, one language. What we do, what we never claim, and what it costs - for creators, for your identity, for licensees and for rights organisations.
Your work. Your terms. Every use accounted for.
Parley is the rights platform for creative work. Register your work once, set your terms per work and per use, license it directly, and check every payment against what you agreed - with evidence at every step. It is built for musicians, writers, photographers, podcasters, filmmakers and performers - the people the old system never quite fit.
Paste a link - your artist page, podcast feed, portfolio, a book ISBN, a paper DOI - or drop a file, and Parley shows you what it sees: your works, matched and fingerprinted; your registration gaps; your open licensing lanes; and what work like yours actually commands, from sourced benchmarks. It takes seconds, it is free, and there is no signup.
The free tier protects your own web presence. You tell Parley where you exist online - your website, your socials - and it publishes your AI position machine-readably (RSL and TDMRep), so compliant systems get your answer instead of silence. You declare how you create. You get a public creator page. You see which crawlers read your terms, by name, and where you should be registered.
There is no catch, and there is one honest limit: on the free tier we hold no catalogue, so we make no claims about individual works. We cannot protect a catalogue we have not confirmed and do not carry. The paid plans are where your works come in.
On the public catalogue check, a file never leaves your browser. Parley reads the embedded rights data on your own machine and discards the file. The analysis is yours, and we keep nothing without your say-so.
No - Parley never holds your files. When you register a work, the file is copied briefly to a separate fingerprinting service, where it gets its ISCC (ISO 24138), and then it is deleted. We keep the metadata and the fingerprint, not the work itself. You tell us where a licensee can get the file - a link, your own private storage, or by email - so the work stays in your hands, not ours.
AI is a use case. It gets a yes, a no, or a price - like every other use. Your terms are served machine-readably (RSL, TDMRep) around the clock, so a compliant system gets your answer before it uses your work, not after.
No - and we will never claim it can, because nobody can. What we can prove is real, and it is enough: who read your terms (every request snapshotted and content-hashed, and named where it is a known crawler), what was licensed (the evidence chain, and a downloadable certificate on a completed licence), and whether the money matches (reconciliation). If your work turns up in a public crawl corpus, we show that as exposure - labelled as exposure, never as proof of training.
No. Parley isn't a replacement for your collecting society. It's the infrastructure that makes your membership work harder. ROPE points you towards the organisations that should be collecting for you and hands you the files to register with them. Parley covers the part your society doesn't - per-work permissions, machine-readable terms, and reconciliation against what actually happened to your work.
ROPE - Register Once, Populate Everywhere - shows where you ARE registered against where you SHOULD be, across a live directory of 400+ rights organisations and distributors worldwide, and gives you submission-ready files for the targets that take them. The directory is built from the sources the organisations publish themselves. Where a coverage claim is sourced, you see the citation; where it is inferred, we say so and tell you to confirm it. We'd rather show you a gap than sell you a guess.
Upload any usage statement - a streaming report, a distributor statement, a broadcast log - and Parley checks every line against your own terms: was this use allowed, was consent on record, and does the payment match the price you set? Detected usage joins the same check, so a use of your work that never made it into a royalty statement still surfaces, itemised as unpaid or unauthorised, against the same work. They sample. We reconcile.
Yes. Detection scans match appearances of your work back to your registered catalogue - across images, audio, text and likeness, with scan quotas included on the Pro plan. Anything found joins reconciliation, so a detected use is not just a sighting - it comes back as authorised, unpaid, or unauthorised against your own terms. Deeper music detection - broadcast monitoring and fingerprint-level recognition - is coming as the platform grows.
Never. Any commission applies only to new licensing that starts inside Parley - an offer, a deal, a licence through the pipeline. The royalties you already collect from your society, your distributor and your platforms are never touched and never charged on. Reconciliation exists to find your money, not to take a slice of it.
Your machine-readable declaration carries an enquiry route, so a request comes to Parley and is relayed to your real inbox in full and free - who is asking, for what, in their words. Your email address is never published in the declaration itself, because those documents are read by crawlers. Reply directly if you like. Or bring your catalogue in, send formal terms, and transact through Parley with a certificate at the end.
Free is free. Standard is £12 a month and holds your catalogue: registration, terms per work and per use, licensing with the evidence chain. Pro is £19 a month and adds reconciliation and detection. Commission is 10%, only on licensing that starts inside Parley. If you cancel, your registrations, terms and evidence stay yours to export. We don't hold your work hostage, and we don't do lapse-punishment royalty shares.
Your face, your voice, your name. For models, performers and voice artists - and for anyone who is in someone else's work.
Yes, and the way Parley handles it is the point. Declaring that your likeness is off limits is a flag anyone can plant, and others have. Parley treats your identity the way it treats a work: per work, per contributor, with terms, a consent chain and a route to pay. Someone who wants to use your face in a campaign or your voice in a synthetic performance gets a yes, a no, or a price - and if it is a yes, the paperwork that proves it. Nobody had built the layer where yes has a price. Parley's value is highest exactly where the law is weakest.
There is, and declaring is worth doing. A declaration says no, or ask. Parley is what happens after ask: the terms, the consent of everyone in the frame, the licence, the payment. Nothing here contradicts a declaration you have made elsewhere. Parley is the layer underneath it - where a yes gets its terms and its price.
Then you are a contributor, and a contributor's consent is part of the record before the work can be licensed. The photographer or the producer registers the work; your consent, and your terms for how your part of it may be used, sit on it - per use. A licence that needs your face or your voice cannot be issued around you.
Not through Parley, and not without seeing your no. Your position is on the record, and every read of your terms is logged. We can't stop a bad actor who ignores the terms - nobody can - but we can prove the terms were there, were served, and were read, which is what a claim rests on. Say yes with terms instead, and the terms are the deal.
For AI companies, broadcasters, publishers, agencies and educators. License legitimately, at machine speed, with the evidence chain attached.
One place to license creative work per work and per use, at machine speed, with paperwork that survives an audit. Browse verified catalogues, take a per-work or bulk licence, and walk away with an evidence trail you can produce later.
Two ways, both live. A compliance pipeline can hit our machine-readable endpoints (RSL, OLP, TDMRep), get a structured answer - allowed, prohibited, or priced, per work - and transact programmatically. Or a person browses the catalogue, sees the terms, and requests a licence. Bulk and per-work offers, deals, licences and delivery run through one pipeline.
Every licensing-terms response you rely on is snapshotted, content-hashed and attributable, so you can demonstrate exactly what terms were published when you accessed them. Every completed licence can carry a downloadable compliance certificate - the checks run against the licence itself, with the evidence attached. When someone asks you to show your working, it is attached.
Yes. The evidence chain is produced as a by-product of licensing properly - the trail that shows what you licensed, on whose consent, and on what terms, at the moment you accessed them. Regulation like the EU AI Act is pushing AI companies to document their training data and show copyright compliance per work; a licence from Parley comes with the working attached. We give you the evidence; we don't give legal advice on your obligations.
Every work carries a verified consent chain - every contributor's consent confirmed before the work is licensable. You are licensing from a catalogue where the permission has already been checked, not asserted.
AI training is one of 30+ use cases Parley handles. Each work carries a per-work answer for it - allowed, prohibited, or priced - published machine-readably and contract-forming. You get a clear, structured response per work, not a blanket guess.
Every work is fingerprinted with an ISCC (ISO 24138) and its existing identifiers are bridged into one record. Terms come from the creators and organisations themselves. It is built on open standards throughout - because if the infrastructure isn't interoperable, it isn't infrastructure.
You transact on the terms the creator or organisation sets, per work and per use. There is no charge to use the platform - licensees pay only for what they license. For bulk deals and subscriptions, that is a conversation - ask us and we will walk you through it.
Access is arranged directly. Ask us for the sandbox or book a walkthrough and we will set you up. Because the underlying methods are patent pending, sandbox and platform access run under a short NDA.
For collecting societies, unions, trade bodies and agencies. Your brand. Your members. Your pricing. Our infrastructure.
Parley runs white-label: your brand, your members, your pricing, our infrastructure. Your members see your branding; licensees see your catalogue; you frame the policies, the pricing and the terms. Underneath sits the whole rights lifecycle - per-work permissions across 30+ use cases, consent chains for collective works, machine-readable terms any compliance pipeline can read, and licences that carry downloadable compliance certificates.
No. Parley isn't a replacement for your collecting society. It's the infrastructure that makes your membership work harder. Parley never collects on your behalf - you collect; Parley proves, reconciles, advises, and helps your members register. ROPE actively points creators towards the organisations that should be collecting for them, which makes it a route to membership for you, not a threat.
The part they feel immediately: reconciliation of what they are actually paid, gap analysis across the 400+ organisations we map, and a public front door that assembles a member's whole catalogue from a pasted link. Members self-onboard in minutes.
Structured, verified, per-member permission and pricing data across every use case - data that does not exist anywhere else, created as a side effect of onboarding. A new licensing revenue lane your legacy systems can't offer - consent-based, per-work, machine-readable, evidenced. ISCC fingerprinting on every registered work. And ROPE working as a route to membership, sending the right creators to you.
Your members can license uses they currently earn nothing on - AI training among them - per work, on consent, at a price they set, with the evidence attached. You frame the pricing and the policy; Parley runs the mechanism. This is new revenue for your members, not a deduction from what they already collect.
No. Parley is built on open standards - ISCC (ISO 24138), RSL, TDMRep - so your members' evidence is readable by every pipeline, not trapped in ours. Your data sits under your brand and exports cleanly. Because if the infrastructure isn't interoperable, it isn't infrastructure.
Blanket programmes and per-work permissions are tracked side by side, so you can move to finer granularity at your own pace rather than replacing anything on day one.
The directory of 400+ organisations is built from the sources the organisations publish themselves - their memberships, mandates, and the reciprocal agreements they list. Where a coverage claim is sourced, you see the citation; where it is inferred, we flag it and tell you to confirm it with the organisation. We'd rather show you a gap than sell you a guess.
The platform is live - deployed infrastructure, not a pitch deck. Rights organisations are actively evaluating it across visual arts, performing arts, fashion modelling and music.
The Founding Partner Programme is open. Book a walkthrough and we will run you through it directly. Because the underlying methods are patent pending, walkthroughs and platform access run under a short NDA.
Collecting societies, unions, trade bodies and agencies, across music, visual arts, performing arts, writing, fashion modelling and beyond. If your members make creative work and are asking you what the plan is - for AI, and for everything after it - Parley is the answer you can put your brand on.
