Music Rights
9 min
The Economics of Music Rights
How publishing, master rights, and catalog structures create durable revenue — and where value is often misunderstood.
Research note 1
Found Creative Investments
Capital for Culture.
Found Creative Investments identifies, develops, and connects capital to the businesses, intellectual property, and creative projects shaping culture.
- New York
- Los Angeles
- London
- Rome
- Paris
- Milan
The Thesis
Culture is an economy.
Creative work is more than culture. It can become intellectual property, businesses, experiences, communities, and enduring economic assets.
Found Creative Investments explores opportunities where creative vision and commercial potential intersect.
We look beyond the individual project to understand the broader ecosystem:
IP→Audience→Revenue→Scale→Long-Term Value
What We Explore
Areas we research and evaluate.
These are fields of active study and evaluation — not offerings, allocations, or committed investment categories.
01
Film & Television
Independent film, production companies, television concepts, film slates, and entertainment businesses.
02
Music
Music rights, catalogs, publishing, artist businesses, live music, and music-related ventures.
03
Creative IP
Original intellectual property with potential across film, television, publishing, gaming, licensing, merchandise, and other media.
04
Live Entertainment
Theatre, festivals, experiential entertainment, events, venues, and cultural experiences.
05
Creative Businesses
Production companies, entertainment companies, creator-led businesses, technology-enabled creative companies, and cultural ventures.
06
Art + Culture
Opportunities at the intersection of art, commerce, culture, fashion, hospitality, and creative enterprise.
Our Model
From creative idea to enduring asset.
01
Discover
Find exceptional creative projects, businesses, and intellectual property.
02
Evaluate
Assess creative quality, commercial potential, ownership, audience, economics, and risk.
03
Develop
Help promising ideas become commercially viable businesses and assets.
04
Connect
Connect creators, operators, strategic partners, and appropriate sources of capital.
05
Invest
Where appropriate and through properly structured vehicles, participate in selected opportunities.
06
Scale
Help successful creative businesses and intellectual property grow internationally.
Participation in any opportunity would occur only where appropriate and through properly structured, legally compliant vehicles and documentation.
FCI Intelligence
The FCI Intelligence Desk
Research at the intersection of culture and capital.
The Intelligence Desk is FCI's research practice. We study how creative work becomes economic value, and publish perspective rather than recommendations.
- Entertainment economics
- Creative IP
- Music rights
- Film finance
- Cultural businesses
- Emerging creative markets
- Creator economies
- Entertainment M&A
- Alternative assets
- New models of cultural financing
Film Finance
12 min
Can Independent Film Become an Investable Asset Class?
Slate construction, pre-sales, tax incentives, and distribution economics examined as a research question, not a promise.
Research note 2
Creator Economies
7 min
The New Creator Economy
Creator-led companies are becoming operating businesses with IP, audiences, and enterprise value.
Research note 3
Creative IP
10 min
Who Owns Cultural IP?
Chain of title, moral rights, adaptation rights, and the ownership questions behind every cultural asset.
Research note 4
The FCI Network
Where creators meet capital.
FCI is building a private network bringing together the people creating culture and the people capable of helping it scale.
Join the FCI NetworkInvestors
Family offices, entrepreneurs, HNW individuals, and strategic capital.
Creators
Filmmakers, musicians, artists, writers, producers, designers, and creative entrepreneurs.
Operators
Entertainment executives, producers, managers, founders, and business builders.
Experts
Lawyers, accountants, finance professionals, distributors, advisors, and industry specialists.
Opportunities
The FCI Opportunity Room
A curated view into exceptional creative opportunities.
Illustrative / Not Current Offerings
Film Slate
Under Evaluation
Independent European production company
A production company developing a multi-title slate with festival-oriented creative leadership and international distribution ambitions.
- Geography
- Europe — Italy / United Kingdom
- Stage
- Early research
Music IP
Under Evaluation
Emerging catalog and artist rights
A body of publishing and master rights held by developing artists, studied for ownership clarity and long-term audience durability.
- Geography
- North America
- Stage
- Structure exploration
Creative Business
Under Evaluation
Creator-led entertainment company
An operating company built around an established creative voice, expanding from audience into owned formats and licensing.
- Geography
- United States — Los Angeles
- Stage
- Business development
Live Experience
Under Evaluation
New cultural entertainment concept
An experiential format combining performance, hospitality, and design, examined for venue economics and repeatability.
- Geography
- Western Europe
- Stage
- Concept development
All opportunities displayed are illustrative examples of the types of work FCI researches, unless explicitly identified as live opportunities. No figures, valuations, projections, or fundraising amounts are presented, and nothing here is an offer or solicitation.
Future Platform
Building the marketplace for cultural capital.
FCI is exploring a future platform that could allow creators to present exceptional projects and businesses to a curated community of supporters, strategic partners, and, where legally appropriate, investors.
Create
Discover
Support
Invest
Build
Any securities offering or investment activity will only occur through appropriately structured and legally compliant mechanisms, with proper documentation and, where required, registration or exemption.
FCI Ventures
Beyond investing. We build.
FCI Ventures is the future venture and development arm of the firm. Where a creative business or body of intellectual property warrants it, we may work alongside founders and rights holders directly.
Strategic development
Business building
Production
Commercialization
Partnerships
International expansion
Acquisitions
Investment
The goal isn't simply to fund culture. It's to help build the businesses behind it.
Events
FCI Salons
Private conversations at the intersection of culture, business, and capital.
Request an InvitationCan Culture Be an Asset Class?
London · Private dinner
The Economics of Music Rights
Los Angeles · Roundtable
Financing Independent Film
Rome · Salon conversation
Who Owns the Future of Creative IP?
New York · Panel & dinner
The Business of Live Entertainment
Milan · Roundtable
About
Found Creative Investments
Found Creative Investments was created around a simple idea:
Exceptional creative work deserves sophisticated capital.
FCI exists to explore the intersection of creativity and economics — identifying opportunities where cultural relevance, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, and financial potential meet.
We are building a platform designed to connect the people creating culture with the people capable of helping it scale.
Founder
Built at the intersection of creativity, business, and international culture.
FCI was founded by entrepreneur, Imani Jones, who has worked across creative industries and international markets for over 10 years — with experience spanning brand and marketing, entertainment, and cross-border business development and consulting.
That perspective is less about a financial track record than a point of view: that creative work is increasingly built like a business, and that the people who understand both languages are the ones who can connect them.
The work today is deliberately early — research, relationships, and the careful development of a network across New York, San Francisco, London, Rome, Paris, and Milan.
Newsletter
The FCI Brief
A monthly perspective on culture, capital, and the businesses shaping the creative economy.