White Paper

The CORPUS Royalty Protocol white paper is the foundational design document for the protocol. The pages on this site distill, structure, and update its contents — the PDF is the canonical, citable version.

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CORPUS Royalty Protocol — White Paper (PDF, 4.5 MB)

Version: 3 March 2026.

What's in it

The paper covers the same ground as this documentation site, organized into ten chapters: industry context, why existing rights systems struggle, applications, the protocol itself, securing contributions and rights integrity, how value flows from contributions to royalties, and the organizational and legal structure.

This site is the living version: shorter, hyperlinked, kept current with iteration. The white paper is the version-stamped snapshot. If a chapter you need has not been built out here yet, the PDF is the place to look.

Cite as

CORPUS Royalty Protocol — White Paper. Sofilab, Munich, 3 March 2026. Available at: doc.corpus.music/white-paper.