# SoundPatrol — Full Context

> SoundPatrol builds AI infrastructure for the entertainment industry, using neural fingerprinting to protect creative integrity across video, audio, and generative media at scale.

## Company Overview

SoundPatrol, Inc. is a frontier AI research lab that builds the intelligence layer for the entertainment industry. The company develops advanced foundation models and scalable systems that equip platforms, studios, distributors, and research labs with tools designed for the realities of generative media.

By proactively identifying infringement and authenticating human authorship, SoundPatrol helps protect creative integrity across video, audio, interactive content, and emerging formats — ensuring innovation thrives while original creators remain recognized and compensated.

## Leadership

### Founders
- **Michael Ovitz** — Co-Founder & Chairman. Former co-founder of CAA, former President of The Walt Disney Company.
- **Walter De Brouwer, Ph.D.** — Co-Founder & CEO. Serial entrepreneur and researcher in AI.

### Advisers (Stanford University)
- **Prof. Percy Liang, Ph.D.** — Director of MARIN (Open Lab for Building Foundation Models), Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford.
- **Prof. Chris Ré, Ph.D.** — Director of FactoryHQ, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, Member of Stanford AI Lab (SAIL).
- **Prof. Dan Boneh, Ph.D.** — Director of Stanford Cybersecurity Lab, Director of Center for Blockchain Research, Professor of CS and EE at Stanford.

## Technology

### Neural Fingerprinting
Neural Fingerprinting moves far beyond traditional snippet matching. Instead of simply recognizing identical media fragments, it maps deeper semantic relationships — tracing how ideas evolve across formats, remixes, adaptations, and AI-generated derivatives. It understands not just what a piece of content is, but how it connects, transforms, and travels across today's media landscape.

### Neural Enforcement Engine
A large-scale 24/7 surveillance system to keep track of unlicensed activity (copyright infringement). A neural fingerprinting scanner that is completely AI-native with large GPU clusters at its disposal.

### StreamLock: Mission Control
A highly advanced, server-side stream protection system with war and combat rooms during live sports broadcast events. State-of-the-art technology used to combat piracy for premium live and on-demand video content.

## Research & Publications

SoundPatrol publishes research on:
- Neural fingerprinting for generative audio
- Semantic audio embeddings for copyright detection
- AI provenance in media
- Graph neural networks for music structure (ATGNN, LHGNN)
- Large-scale audio fingerprinting at streaming scale
- Digital rights and neural fingerprinting
- Generative media and human authorship

## Key Partnership

In September 2025, SoundPatrol announced a first-of-a-kind collaboration with Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music to protect artists from unchecked copyright infringement activity coming from AI music generators. This was made possible through SoundPatrol's patent-pending forensic AI model for audio-video fingerprinting using neural embeddings.

## Trust & Security

SoundPatrol maintains SOC 2 compliance and provides security documentation through its Trust Center.

## Pages

- [Home](https://soundpatrol.com/)
- [About Us](https://soundpatrol.com/about-us)
- [Press Releases](https://soundpatrol.com/press-release)
- [Publications](https://soundpatrol.com/publications)
- [Trust Center](https://soundpatrol.com/trust-center)
- [Contact Us](https://soundpatrol.com/contact-us)

## Contact

For business inquiries, partnerships, or media requests, visit https://soundpatrol.com/contact-us.