The position the venture refuses
The dominant model for generative AI in music is straightforward and extractive: train on whatever catalogue can be obtained, ship the product, settle litigation later. The model assumes attribution is a post-launch problem, that royalty share is something to be negotiated under duress, and that the artists whose work funds the training data are a counterparty to be deferred — not a constituency to be paid.
The firm’s position is that this configuration cannot be made compliant after the fact. Compliance, where it matters, has to be enforced by the product itself before the first commercial generation fires. iMused is the firm-built proof of that position.
The live venture is at imused.ai.
What “compliant by design” means
Two design choices, both visible on the live property, do the work.
1. The PRO registration gate
Before a user can commercialise any song generated by SongCraft™ AI, the product requires the user to register, inside the product:
- legal name
- IPI number (international interested-parties code)
- PRO affiliation — ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, AllTrack, GMR, or PRO Music Rights
The gate is enforced by the product, not by the Terms of Service. A user who has not registered cannot commercialise an output. The free tier permits non-commercial generation only — a deliberate choice to keep the on-ramp frictionless without softening the commercial gate.
2. The public attribution ledger
Every commercial generation writes a public ledger entry. The ledger
lives at app.imused.ai/AttributionLog. Each entry names:
- the source DNA Profile used
- the licence tier (user-generated or Certified)
- the royalty obligation owed to the source artist
The ledger is publicly auditable. The promise in the brand line — “Compliant by Design” — has its evidence in the ledger.
Two-sided design
The product names two constituencies, with the same explicit care:
- Creators. Songwriters, producers, independent musicians who want style-specific inspiration and studio-ready charts. They get the generation engine, the dual-format export (Suno® and Udio prompts, human-musician charts), and the commercial-use licence in any paid tier.
- Muses. Artists whose Musical DNA Profile is licensed into the platform. They get the royalty share — 10% on user-generated profiles, 20% on Certified DNA Profiles — and co-producer credit on every inspired work.
The 10% / 20% royalty tier is the operating expression of CROWD POWERED’s mission-focused configuration in this venture. It is the reinvestment back to upstream contributors that the framework mandates. See /library/why-90-percent/ for the related discipline in the firm’s other ventures.
The two counterfactuals the firm rejected
The case-study companion at /case-studies/imused/ lays out the two counterfactuals at length. In summary:
- Counterfactual A — train and litigate. Rejected because the configuration systematically transfers value away from artists during the most legally ambiguous window.
- Counterfactual B — opt-in but optional. Rejected because optional attribution is statistically equivalent to no attribution.
iMused implements neither. Opt-in for artists, mandatory for users, with the royalty share fired by design.
What is verifiable on the live property
Each of the following claims can be verified by visiting the property:
- Operating entity: iMused™ and The 144k Collective in the copyright footer.
- Legal jurisdiction: 2800 Post Oak Blvd, Houston, TX, on both the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
- Power In Numbers ownership: legal contact
legal@power-in-numbers.net. - Effective date: July 26, 2025 (Terms of Service and Privacy Policy).
- PRO support: the six PROs named above.
Cross-references
- The full case study. /case-studies/imused/
- The 90 % reinvestment discipline. /library/why-90-percent/
- The framework iMused is configured against. /methodology/framework/
- The 144K Collective — co-named in the iMused copyright footer. /case-studies/144k-collective/