# Kobalt

> Kobalt Music Group is an independent music rights management and administrative
> publishing company founded in 2000 by Willard Ahdritz, with offices in New York
> and London. It administers copyrights rather than owning them, operating Kobalt
> Music Publishing, a neighbouring rights division, and AMRA (the American
> Mechanical Rights Agency). Its rights and royalty processing runs on KTech, a
> shared technology platform built to serve both Kobalt Music Publishing and AMRA,
> with songwriters and rightsholders accessing statements and analytics through
> the Kobalt Portal.

Kobalt does not publish a public developer program. As of the 2026-07-19 probe
there is no developer portal, no API documentation, no OpenAPI/AsyncAPI
description, and no /.well-known/ API discovery surface on kobaltmusic.com. The
Kobalt Portal is an authenticated client application for signed songwriters and
rightsholders, not an open API. Any integration is arranged through a commercial
relationship with Kobalt or KTech.

## Company

- [Kobalt Music](https://www.kobaltmusic.com): Corporate site for Kobalt Music
  Group — publishing, neighbouring rights, and rights administration services.
- [KTech](https://www.ktech.com): The rights and content management platform
  Kobalt built to process music micro-transactions, serving Kobalt Music
  Publishing and AMRA.
- [AMRA](https://www.amra.com): The digital-first global collection society
  Kobalt acquired in 2014.

## Client surfaces

- [Kobalt Portal](https://portal.kobaltmusic.com): Authenticated portal where
  Kobalt songwriters and rightsholders view royalty statements and analytics.
  Login-gated; no public API.

## Security

- [security.txt](https://www.kobaltmusic.com/.well-known/security.txt): RFC 9116
  contact for vulnerability reports — security@ktech.com.

## API Evangelist artifacts

- [apis.yml](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kobalt/refs/heads/main/apis.yml): The APIs.json index for this profile.
- [well-known/kobalt-well-known.yml](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kobalt/refs/heads/main/well-known/kobalt-well-known.yml): Probe results for the /.well-known/ discovery surface.
- [security/kobalt-domain-security.yml](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kobalt/refs/heads/main/security/kobalt-domain-security.yml): TLS, HSTS, DNSSEC, CAA, SPF, and DMARC probe.
- [security/kobalt-vulnerability-disclosure.yml](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kobalt/refs/heads/main/security/kobalt-vulnerability-disclosure.yml): Vulnerability disclosure contact captured from security.txt.

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