EAS Licensing & Publishing — New Service
Nobody audits the brief.
Nike had auditors, procurement and eventually a grand jury watching where its music money went. An independent artist offered a sync placement has none of that — just a number in an email, and no way to know what the brand actually paid for the track.
ClearSync Review is a paid, independent check of your sync deal before you sign it.
Sync Brief — Confidential
REF / SYNC-2026-0418
- Brand budget (total)
- Licensing fee invoiced
- $12,400.00
- Fee offered to writer
- $5,000.00
- Unexplained variance
- $7,400.00
Figures illustrative.
Prepared by EAS Licensing & Publishing.
to you
Case File
Exhibit A — State of Oregon v. Griffith & Mosher
Venue / Washington County, Oregon
Filed / May 2026
Status / Alleged — not proven
John Griffith, Nike's former head of Global Brand Marketing, Music Supervision, Strategy and Licensing, and Brad Mosher, owner of Good Measure LLC — a music licensing vendor whose sole client was Nike — were each indicted by a Washington County grand jury on 24 felony counts, including racketeering and money laundering.
Prosecutors allege the pair inflated invoices for music licensing work and routed roughly half of each overpayment back to Griffith through a shell company, totalling more than $1 million between 2020 and 2022.
Both men have pleaded not guilty. No trial date has been set. Both are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
Sources / Washington County Circuit Court filings; reported by Billboard, KPTV and Digital Music News, 2026
The point is not the verdict. The point is that it took an internal audit function and a district attorney to surface it — resources a brand has and a songwriter does not.
The Gap
Same deal. Two completely different levels of sight.
What Nike had
- —An internal audit team reviewing spend
- —Formal vendor spend review and procurement sign-off
- —A prosecutor with subpoena power
- —Years of invoices, contracts and paper trail
What an independent artist has
- —The number the licensing company tells you
- —No visibility into the brand's real budget
- —No way to check whether the terms are standard
- —Nothing in writing until the moment you sign
The Service
ClearSync Review
A fixed-fee, independent read of the offer on your desk — before your signature makes it permanent.
Budget Benchmarking
We compare your offer against comparable placements to show where it sits in the real market range.
Contract Clause Check
Term, territory, exclusivity, option renewals and buyout language read line by line, in plain English.
Licensing Company Due Diligence
Who is actually paying you, who they answer to, and what their payment record looks like.
Negotiation Support
The specific asks worth making, and the wording to make them without losing the placement.
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How it works
Four steps, no retainer.
- 1
Submit
Send us the offer, the brief and anything else you've been given.
- 2
Verify
We benchmark the fee and dig into the company behind the offer.
- 3
Report
You get a short written report: what's fair, what's flagged, what to ask.
- 4
Decide
Sign, push back, or walk — with the same information the other side has.
Book a Review
Send us the offer.
Tell us what's on the table. We'll come back with scope, fee and turnaround — no obligation.
Coming next
The Ledger
A shared registry of licensing companies — who pays, who pays late, who quietly rewrites the terms. Built by musicians, for musicians, so that the next artist gets the file before the meeting.
Early access. No spam, ever.