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Preserving African culture as licensable IP. Contribute your recordings to a professionally managed catalogue.
Read the Concept PaperWhat Is CIPCE?
The Cultural IP Catalogue Engine (CIPCE) is Master Made Studios' initiative to capture, structure, and package African cultural expressions — music, oral histories, languages, rituals — into professionally managed catalogues licensed on a subscription and usage basis.
CIPCE exists to align culture with modern IP economics, ensuring that heritage is preserved, documented, and monetised without stripping it of dignity or community benefit. Contributors retain rights and recognition, while licensees gain access to authentic, rights-cleared cultural material for film, TV, advertising, education, AI, and beyond.
Every submission is reviewed for quality, provenance, and consent before it enters the licensable catalogue — building a trusted bridge between communities and the creative industries that want to draw from them.
Capture
Record and document cultural expressions from communities across Africa.
Structure
Catalogue, tag, and rights-clear material into managed collections.
License
Make heritage available to creators on fair, transparent terms.
Catalogue Categories
The CIPCE initiative captures, structures, and packages African cultural expressions — music, oral histories, languages, rituals — into professionally managed catalogues licensed on a subscription and usage basis. Culture aligned with modern IP economics, without stripping it of dignity or community benefit.
Film, TV, games, advertising, museums, streaming
Podcasts, publishing, edtech, AI datasets
Documentaries, OTT platforms, tourism boards
AI voice systems, localization, education
Submission Repository
Upload your cultural recordings — folk music, oral histories, traditional ceremonies, or linguistic material — for review by our CIPCE team. Submissions that meet our quality and rights standards are added to the licensable catalogue.
Upload your cultural recording for review and potential inclusion in the CIPCE catalogue.
Listen to approved recordings from the CIPCE repository.
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