Not really. The rightsholder determines whether they want to maintain the rights database for their songs themselves or delegate it to one or more distributors

Not really. The rightsholder determines whether they want to maintain the rights database for their songs themselves or delegate it to one or more distributors to do it. This is a solved problem and the intermediaries provide value to the rightsholder in marketing, managing more complex license types (performance, radio airplay, use in film) and pestering copyright violators