Case report · EM-139
Exceleration Music Partners, LLC
Open case ↗Needs attention
- Ylang Ylang master: The registration names Mom + Pop Recordings, LLC as claimant. A separate 2022 license identifies Exceleration Music Partners, LLC as licensor of 100% of the master, but the reviewed library does not show the upstream instrument connecting the registered claimant/rightsholder to Exceleration Music Partners, LLC. The registration’s “Exceleration Music” rights-and-permissions contact is not itself proof that it is the same legal entity or copyright owner.
- Never Be Like You master: The 2024 supplemental registration names Flume as author and Mom + Pop Recordings, LLC and Top Music IP, L.P. as claimants; it describes Top Music’s acquisition of Flume/Future Classic rights and Mom + Pop’s distribution-only role. The reviewed library does not show a transfer or other rights link from those parties to Exceleration Music Partners, LLC.
- Authority to act: The reviewed records do not establish an executed, applicable Third Chair mandate for the Smashburger claims or these tracks. The generic authorization file has blank company/date fields in extracted text; confirm its original/e-sign evidence or an applicable current mandate.
Rights by work
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Ylang Ylang
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- Master: Recording is listed in the rightsholder catalogue. The registration for Ylang Ylang EP includes “Ylang Ylang,” but names Mom + Pop Recordings, LLC as claimant (and Coffee Bird LLC as sound-recording author for hire). A 2022 master-use license identifies Exceleration Music Partners, LLC as licensor for “Master (100%)”; it supports an asserted licensing position at that time, not the missing link from the registered claimant to the case owner. The present master title chain is not established by the reviewed sources.
- Composition: Not listed for this work.
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Never Be Like You (feat. Kai)
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- Master: Recording is listed in the rightsholder catalogue. The catalogue entries share ISRC AUFF01500784 and are grouped as the same recording-version lead. The exact-title registration was supplemented: the 2023 record’s Future Classic/Mom + Pop author/claimant information was corrected in 2024; the supplement names Harry Edward Streten (Flume) as sole author and Mom + Pop Recordings, LLC and Top Music IP, L.P. as claimants. The reviewed sources do not connect either claimant/rightsholder to Exceleration Music Partners, LLC, so the present master title chain is not established.
- Composition: Not listed for this work.
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Supporting documents
- Ylang Ylang Copyright Registration.pdf — Copy identifies SR 963-165 for the sound-recording collective work Ylang Ylang EP, lists “Ylang Ylang” in its contents, names Coffee Bird LLC as work-for-hire sound-recording author and Mom + Pop Recordings, LLC as claimant by written agreement, and lists Exceleration Music under rights and permissions. The underlying stored record is SR0000963165.
- REDACTED “Ylang Ylang” FKJ - Exceleration Licensing History.pdf — Exhibit A identifies Exceleration Music Partners, LLC as licensor and “Master (100%)” for a specific “Ylang Ylang” social-media master-use license effective October 18, 2022. It does not show an upstream title transfer to the licensor.
- SR0000963877 — Original 2023 sound-recording registration for the exact Never Be Like You (feat. Kai) title; it is explicitly supplemented by SR0001030931 and its initial author/claimant information was corrected.
- SR0001030931 — 2024 supplement for the exact recording; names Flume as sole sound-recording author and Mom + Pop Recordings, LLC and Top Music IP, L.P. as claimants. Its correction text says Mom + Pop had only a distribution license and describes Top Music’s acquisition of Flume/Future Classic catalogue rights; it does not connect those rights to the case owner.
- Exceleration_Client_Claim_Authorization_Letter_Completed .pdf — Extracted text leaves the company and date blank, so the available text does not establish an applicable mandate. Confirm the original/e-sign evidence before treating this as unexecuted or relying on it.
- To inspect: Documents Checklist.xlsx — This active file has failed processing and no extracted text or search index; its contents were not checked.
Document check
Still needed
- The instrument or other reliable evidence linking the Ylang Ylang master claimant/rightsholder to Exceleration Music Partners, LLC.
- The transfer or other rights link from Top Music IP, L.P. and/or the relevant prior claimant to Exceleration Music Partners, LLC for Never Be Like You.
- Confirmation of an executed Third Chair authorization covering these works/claims or the applicable catalogue, and inspection of the failed-processing checklist file for relevant instrument references.
What supports the chain
The catalogue asserts master scope for both recordings. The Ylang Ylang registration maps the exact title to a sound-recording collective work but names Mom + Pop as claimant; a separate license names Exceleration Music Partners, LLC as licensor for a specific 100% master use. The corrected Never Be Like You registration points to Flume/Top Music and Mom + Pop, not the case owner. The reviewed evidence therefore identifies relevant master-rights claimants and a Ylang licensing assertion, but does not complete either title chain to Exceleration Music Partners, LLC.