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Want to know whether your music is being used somewhere you never authorised? Run a free check on your artist name and see what is circulating: re-uploads, remixes, sped-up edits and channels you do not control. No credit card, no obligation.
One thing up front, because it matters: a check produces signals, not accusations. Some of what you find will be perfectly legal. What it gives you is sight of where your work actually lives — which is the part almost no independent artist has.
Run the free name check →It shows you where recordings that match yours appear publicly — on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or SoundCloud — including uploads on channels you do not control. What it cannot tell you is whether a given upload is licensed. Only the rightsholder can establish that. A check gives you signals and a place to start looking, not a verdict.
Start manually: search your exact artist name and track titles on YouTube and TikTok and sort by newest, then repeat with common misspellings and with "remix", "sped up" and "slowed" added. Note every channel, URL, date and view count you find. Then run an automated name check to catch what manual searching misses, such as uploads that do not mention your name at all.
A copyright check asks where your work is being used and by whom. A royalty check asks whether you were actually paid for that use. They are different questions with different answers: usage can be perfectly legal and still unpaid, because the platform never matched the upload to your registration. Most missing money comes from matching failures, not from theft.
Content ID compares audio fingerprints against reference files that rightsholders have registered. It misses uploads when no reference file exists for that recording, when the audio has been altered enough to escape matching (pitch shifts, speed changes, remixes), when the material sits on platforms outside the system, and when your catalogue was never re-registered after a label or distributor change.
Three things: a dated record of what you found and where, proof that the work is yours (registration, session files, first release date), and a route to file — your collecting society, publisher or distributor. Screenshots are the weakest form of documentation, because a takedown removes the evidence along with the upload and a screenshot cannot be verified by anyone else.
The name check is free and requires no credit card: it shows you what is circulating around your artist name. Signed evidence dossiers, full scans and sharing links are part of the paid plans. RoyaltyScanner never files claims on your behalf and never promises an amount — you file yourself, through your own collecting society, publisher or distributor.
Finding a use is the easy half. Proving it, months later, in a dispute with a platform or a distributor, is the hard half. Every confirmed match we report comes with a digitally signed evidence dossier: a SHA-256 hash over the canonical record, an independent RFC 3161 timestamp, and a public verification page where anyone — your publisher, your collecting society, a lawyer — can check the file has not been altered.
We require at least two independent sources per finding and a human review before anything is confirmed. And we never file on your behalf: you claim through your own collecting society, publisher or distributor. We supply the evidence and show you the route. See how verification works →
Free name check, free account in two minutes, no credit card.
Run the free name check →