Amit Dubey
Music Publishing & Rights Strategist
Founder, Beat Street Music & Publishing
Overview
Amit Dubey is a music publishing and rights strategist focused on strengthening how music is documented, attributed, and monetised. His work sits at the intersection of publishing, metadata, and royalty systems, ensuring that value flows accurately to creators and rights holders.
With experience across radio, television, metadata infrastructure, and copyright administration, he brings a combination of creative understanding and systems thinking. Over the years, this has led him to focus on a recurring industry problem: music is being created and consumed at scale, but the underlying data and rights structures often fail to support it.
Metadata gaps, fragmented ownership information, and inefficient publishing workflows continue to result in unclaimed royalties and lost value. Amit works on identifying and correcting these gaps, helping stakeholders move towards more structured and reliable systems.
Career & Experience
Amit began his career in radio with Radio City and Radio One, working as a radio jockey and producer. This phase built a strong foundation in music programming, audience behaviour, and content cycles.
He later moved into television as Creative Director at Sri Adhikari Brothers Group, where he led music strategy for large format shows featuring artists such as Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra. This role combined creative direction with execution at scale.
His transition into metadata and music technology began at Gracenote, where he worked on improving catalogue accuracy and deploying music data systems for Indian repertoire. This marked a shift from content to the underlying infrastructure that powers discovery, rights management, and royalty flows.
At The Indian Performing Right Society Limited (IPRS), as Head of Music Documentation, Amit led a significant transformation in how rights were recorded and managed. He helped move workflows from manual, paper based systems to structured digital processes aligned with global CISAC standards. This improved accessibility and accuracy for rights holders and contributed to stronger royalty tracking and collections. He also conducted workshops to help creators better understand publishing and digital systems.
Beat Street Music & Publishing
Amit founded Beat Street Music & Publishing as an independent advisory practice focused on music publishing, rights management, and catalogue strategy.
He works with labels, creators, and platforms to bring structure to their music assets. His work includes catalogue audits, metadata organisation, publishing administration, platform onboarding, and sync licensing strategy.
The focus is not just on managing rights, but on making systems work. This involves identifying inconsistencies in data, gaps in ownership, and inefficiencies in how royalties are tracked or reported. In many cases, fixing these issues leads to better discoverability, improved royalty flows, and stronger long term catalogue value.
Beat Street Music & Publishing works at the intersection of metadata, publishing systems, and licensing frameworks, ensuring that music assets are accurately represented and aligned with global ecosystems.
Academic & Industry Engagement
Amit engages with academic institutions and industry forums, sharing practical insights on music publishing, metadata, and royalty systems. His sessions focus on helping emerging artists and students understand how gaps in rights and data can impact their long term earnings.
Impact & Vision
Amit’s work is centered on ensuring that music usage translates into accurate and timely payment. By addressing gaps in metadata, ownership clarity, and publishing workflows, he works towards reducing royalty leakage and improving financial outcomes for rights holders.
His vision is a more accountable music ecosystem where accurate data and clear rights structures ensure value flows correctly.
The name Beat Street reflects a belief that music should remain inclusive and accessible. Inspired by the idea of street musicians and grassroots creativity, it represents a vision where systems support, rather than restrict, artistic expression. Through this work, he aims to help independent and underrepresented creators be discovered, documented, and fairly compensated over time.