HML Studio | Holly Mate-Luber

For music companies and organizations navigating sync, licensing, and rights questions, including:

• Independent labels, publishers, and estates looking to grow sync revenue or manage licensing requests
• Music funds, catalog investors, and acquirers building a sync strategy for catalogs they own or are evaluating
• Music supervisors, sync agencies, and music libraries
• Music tech and AI companies working through rights, licensing, and provenance

Ideal when experienced rights-holder insight can move a project, transaction, or internal initiative forward.

Topics may include:

• Catalog sync strategy and song prioritization
• Licensing management: requests, quotes, approvals, and license tracking
• Catalog readiness: metadata, splits, approval contacts, and intake/CRM strategy
• Pricing, fee benchmarks, MFNs, and deal terms
• Estate rights, ownership, and approval questions
• AI's impact on music copyright, licensing, and rights-holder strategy
• Sync agent, library, and admin agreements (industry guidance, not legal advice)
• Internal policy and operational decision-making

Bring your question. Leave with practical guidance and a clear path forward. Ongoing support, including licensing management, can be scoped separately.
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Need guidance on clearing and licensing music for a film, television project, advertisement, podcast, social campaign, game, or other visual media? Start here.

For filmmakers, brands, agencies, production companies, podcasts, game developers, marketing teams, and content creators.

Get experienced guidance before committing time or budget to music licensing. We'll discuss your project's creative goals, licensing strategy, anticipated costs, rights requirements, and the most efficient path to securing the music you need.

Topics may include:

• Determining which rights you need
• Publishing vs. master rights
• Copyright ownership research
• Identifying and approaching rights holders
• Licensing budgets, pricing, festival licenses, and step deals
• Clearance strategy and outreach
• Stalled requests and approval roadblocks
• Common pitfalls that delay productions or releases

If you decide to engage HML Studio for subsequent clearance or licensing support, your consultation fee may be credited toward the project fee, depending on the scope of work.

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Whether you're preparing your catalog for sync opportunities, thinking through your broader licensing strategy, or want to talk through a specific sync deal offer alongside the bigger picture, start here.

For independent artists, songwriters, composers, and managers.

These sessions provide experienced insider perspective to help you make informed business decisions about your music and rights.

Topics may include:

• Sync readiness and catalog positioning
• Licensing strategy
• Metadata readiness
• Pricing expectations
• Sync deal review and evaluation, alongside broader strategy
• Negotiation considerations
• How music is evaluated for film, television, trailers, advertising, sports, and branded content

Drawing on 13 years at Sony Music Publishing, including leadership in publisher-side sync clearance and licensing, I'll help you understand how rights holders typically approach these opportunities, what questions to ask, and where business terms often warrant closer attention.

Need a focused second opinion on one specific sync offer? Consider the shorter Artist & Composer Sync Deal Review instead.

These sessions are advisory and educational in nature. They do not constitute legal advice and do not guarantee placements, representation, or introductions.

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Have a specific sync deal offer in front of you and need an experienced second opinion before you respond? Start here.

For independent artists, songwriters, composers, and managers.

This focused session covers one specific sync offer, or a sync agent or library agreement. We'll go over the business terms, what's standard, what to question, and what to consider before you respond.

Looking for broader guidance on your catalog, sync strategy, or licensing goals? Book the Artist & Composer Sync Strategy Consultation instead.

These sessions are advisory and educational in nature. They do not constitute legal advice or contract markup, and do not guarantee outcomes.
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Need industry consulting or litigation support on a music rights or licensing matter? Start here.

For entertainment law firms, attorneys, legal teams, and litigation consultants.

An initial consultation to discuss your matter, determine whether my experience is a good fit, and assess how I may be able to support your team.

Areas of expertise include:

• Music publishing custom and practice
• Sync licensing workflows
• Clearance processes
• Licensing economics
• Rights ownership research
• Industry standards and business practices
• Publisher-side operations and decision-making

Following our discussion, any ongoing consulting support will be scoped and quoted separately based on the needs of the engagement. Non-testifying consulting; not legal advice. Engagements subject to conflicts review.

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