The regulator reads the ledger for free.

Oversight of broadcast has never been short of authorities. Every market the platform rolls out into has a copyright office, a communications authority, a ministry of information, and one or more rights bodies. What has been missing, almost everywhere, is a single ledger that all of them can read.

GlueArrow's commitment is straightforward: in every market where the platform activates, every authority with a legitimate oversight role over broadcast will be offered a free, read-only view of the same ledger the platform settles on. No negotiated access. No quarterly spreadsheet hand-off. No paywall at the audit trail. The view is engineered into the rail today, in pre-activation mode, ready to switch on with each market's go-live.

What the authority view contains

• Every verified broadcast on the network, at the second it aired, by station.
• Every licence fee collected from each partner station, broken down by period.
• Every distribution paid out to each rights-holder, with the reference the payout carries.
• Every discrepancy flagged — a station playing works outside its licensed catalogue, a play reported but not detected, a detection without a matching registration.
• Breakdowns by geography, genre, and time-of-day — the shape of the market, not just the totals.

What the authority cannot do

The view is read-only. An authority cannot edit a log entry, alter a distribution, or republish the data as its own. The authority audits. The platform settles. Those two jobs stay separate by design.

Why this is architecture, not a press release

A transparency surface the platform can withdraw at will is not transparency. The authority view is written into the standard under which partner stations sign on, and written into the settlement rail that pays rights-holders. Removing it would require rewriting the platform, not flipping a switch. The commitment has the weight of the architecture behind it.

Why this is how we work alongside the world's rights bodies

Rights bodies, in most of the markets the platform rolls out into, do important work under their statutory mandates. The authority view is built to support that work, not replace it. A rights body that partners with the platform receives a filtered view of the same ledger — limited to the works of its affiliated members — with which to verify its own distributions. The rights body does not have to trust the platform to do this. The rights body sees the same rows the platform sees. The platform runs the rail. The rights body carries the mandate. Both read the same ledger.