Smart Rights was founded by Guilherme Sampaio (CEO) in 2018, with the objective of building a new infrastructure of the music royalties industry. Then other partners came along to help with their expertise and we now have a very experienced team with 10+ years in the industry, with partners in the USA (San Francisco, California) and Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo).
Our elevator pitch is: “We work with copyright holders to collect, manage and distribute royalties with speed, transparency and security so that creators, publishers and labels stay focused on their wonderful artistic creations.”
We help small and medium companies to be more efficient, easy to manage and profitable by providing state of the art technology in the royalties management.
Transparency and security so that creators, publishers and labels remain focused on their wonderful artistic creations.
Guilherme Sampaio
CEO
Founder
Guilherme Sampaio is a music technology entrepreneur and speaker who combines emerging technologies with the real world. A serial entrepreneur, he has already sold three startups, and today works on the development of SMART RIGHTS. A hands-on technologist, he takes care of the conception of ideas until the MVPs of his startups.
With extensive knowledge, he has studied and successfully applied philosophy, music, marketing, management, technology and people to achieve these goals. Now focused on helping publishers and labels transform the way creators receive and distribute royalties through artificial intelligence and blockchain.
James Lima
Business Intelligence Consultant
Founder
James Lima has over 25 years of career in music, he was one of the pioneers in the model and development of independent distributors in Brazil. Since the end of the 90s, he has worked at distributors Eldorado, Trama Independente, Brazilmúsica, still in the physical market, where he managed over 350 labels.
For 10 years he was the creator and editor of Music News, the largest independent music newsletter. In the digital market he launched ONErpm in partnership, was country manager for Believe Digital, and consultant for Ditto Music. Today he is a consultant at Hurst, STRM and executive partner at SMART RIGHTS.
Pablo Tupinambá
Internacional
Partner
Pablo Tupinambá is a specialist in Music Business from the College of Los Angeles (UCLA) and a master in Production Engineering from COPPE. He has been an instrumentalist since he was a child (piano and trumpet) and has participated in several semi-professional bands and carnival groups.
He entered the corporate world in 2010 when he had experience with the music and mobile market. He became a specialist in developing YouTube channels and developed several projects directly with streaming services in Brazil.
He has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, since 2018 and is responsible for operations in the USA and attracting international clients.
His favorite bands are Biltre, Snarky Puppy and Dave Brubeck Quartet.
