Case report · EM-45

45 — Exceleration Music Partners, LLC

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Needs attention

  • Master-title bridge: the corrected registration names Top Music IP, L.P. and Mom + Pop Recordings, LLC; Exceleration’s work-specific settlement asserts rights in the same recording, but the reviewed library did not contain an instrument tying either registered claimant to Exceleration. Obtain that agreement or other proof of Exceleration’s control, including the effective date for the relevant uses.
  • One post is unmapped: a second claim’s candidate recording did not intersect Exceleration’s active catalogue, so it is not included in the title review. Confirm track selection/catalogue mapping; this is not a finding that rights are absent.
  • Registry/track metadata discrepancy: Spotify metadata for the matching catalogue entries gives ISRC AUFF01500784, but a registry-search row for one entry also lists AUFF01600787. The raw registrations identify the title and artist but not an ISRC; confirm the extra search-index association.
  • Third Chair authority: the general authorization letter describes broad enforcement and settlement authority and includes a BoldSign document ID/date fields, but the text retains blank party/signature lines and the signing audit was not checked. Confirm completion and that the referenced October 15, 2025 agreement covers this recording.

Rights by work

  • Never Be Like You (feat. Kai) — Flume

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      - Master: Exceleration’s completed 2026 settlement for this exact recording recites that it owns or controls worldwide rights and warrants 100% of the copyright. This supports Exceleration’s stated claim, but is not a source-to-Exceleration transfer instrument. The corrected sound-recording registration instead names Top Music IP, L.P. and Mom + Pop Recordings, LLC as claimants. The link from those companies to Exceleration, and Exceleration’s rights effective date for the posts, remain open. - Composition: Not listed for this work in Exceleration’s active catalogue.
      Evidence and limits

      The case owner is Exceleration Music Partners, LLC; the resolved active catalogue is the same organization. Three catalogue track entries are grouped as the same recording because their Spotify metadata has the same ISRC (AUFF01500784) and one canonical relationship; all three list the recording estate only. Their display titles vary between “Never Be Like You” and “Never Be Like You (feat. Kai).” The two catalogued candidate arrays belong to the 2024 post. The 2025 claim has no active-catalogue intersection and is excluded from this work review. The raw response for registration <strong>SR0001030931</strong> (public record <code>voyager_38358952</code>) is a supplemental/corrected sound-recording record dated 2024-10-11. It identifies Flume, pseudonym of Harry Edward Streten, as author and Top Music IP, L.P. plus Mom + Pop Recordings, LLC as claimants. Its correction says the earlier SR0000963877 record incorrectly listed Future Classic Pty Ltd. as sole author and Mom + Pop as sole claimant. It describes a 2012 exclusive license to Mom + Pop, Top Music IP’s acquisition of Fiin Pty Ltd. on 2022-08-16, and a copyright assignment recorded with the Copyright Office on 2024-08-07. The underlying acquisition/assignment documents were not in the reviewed Exceleration library, and this record does not name Exceleration. The original <strong>SR0000963877</strong> record (public record <code>voyager_35062300</code>) identifies the same sound-recording title and lists Future Classic Pty Ltd. as work-for-hire author and Mom + Pop Recordings, LLC as claimant by written agreement. It must be read with the later correction, not as the final claimant/author account. Neither registration establishes the missing Top Music/Mom + Pop-to-Exceleration link. The exact-work settlement is dated September 11, 2026. It states Exceleration owns or controls rights in “Never Be Like You (featuring Kai)” and warrants that it owns or controls 100% of the copyright. That is direct evidence of Exceleration’s representation in the settlement, not a conveyance or proof of when Exceleration obtained rights.

    Posts

    PostWorkPosted
    TikTok post ↗Never Be Like You (feat. Kai)2024-03-27 22:04 (TikTok stored time; timezone not encoded)
    TikTok post ↗No rightsholder-catalogue match; work not reviewed2025-11-28 19:18 (TikTok stored time; timezone not encoded)

    Supporting documents

    • SR0001030931
      Corrected supplemental sound-recording record for “Never Be Like You (feat. Kai)”; names Flume/Harley Edward Streten as author and Top Music IP, L.P. and Mom + Pop Recordings, LLC as claimants. It describes the earlier correction and Top Music acquisition/recordation, but does not name Exceleration.
    • SR0000963877
      Earlier record for the same recording; its author/claimant entries were expressly corrected in SR0001030931.
    • Exceleration_Dreyer’s_Grand_Ice_Cream,_Inc__Settlement_and_Release_Agreement_Completed.pdf
      Exact-work settlement recites Exceleration’s worldwide rights and contains a 100% copyright ownership/control warranty; it does not show the transfer into Exceleration.
    • Exceleration_Client_Claim_Authorization_Letter_Completed .pdf
      Describes authority for Third Chair to monitor, enforce, settle, and collect for Exceleration Content. Its extracted text has blank form/signature lines and a BoldSign ID/date fields; execution audit and work coverage need confirmation.

    Document check

    Still needed

    • The instrument or other reliable evidence connecting Top Music IP, L.P. and/or Mom + Pop Recordings, LLC to Exceleration Music Partners, LLC for this recording, with rights scope and effective date.
    • Confirmation of the general Third Chair mandate’s execution and coverage for this recording; also resolve the registry search’s extra ISRC association.
    • Confirmation of the catalogue/track selection for the unmapped 2025 post.

    What supports the chain

    The corrected Copyright Office record supports the recording identity, author, and named claimants; Exceleration’s completed 2026 settlement separately supports its stated 100% ownership/control claim in that same recording. The documents reviewed do not connect those registered claimants to Exceleration, so the master chain into Exceleration is not yet established by the available title instruments. No composition estate is listed.

    ### Coverage and limits

    Two active claims/posts were covered: one matched to one distinct catalogue work/version, with three same-ISRC catalogue entries grouped; the other had no active-catalogue match and was not title-reviewed. The case owner’s active library had 33 files: 32 with extracted text and search vectors, and one failed-processing file (Documents Checklist.xlsx) with no extracted text. A scoped search of that library found no Top Music IP, Mom + Pop, or work-specific transfer document tying the recording to Exceleration; a failed or absent library result does not establish that no instrument exists elsewhere. The underlying 2022 acquisition/2024 recordation instruments and the general mandate’s BoldSign audit were not checked.