The publishing outfit uses an online database (sentricmusic.com) that individual artists and songwriters of any level can sign up to. Sentric will then register artists' music with performance rights organisations, manage royalty claims, account to artists with global royalty payments and search for synch and licensing opportunities on behalf of rights holders. It also offers business-to-business sub- publishing arrangements for catalogues owners.

"We set up purely to make music publishing as accessible as digital distribution," said Sentric CEO Chris Meehan. ...