Authors - Sigit Bayu Cahyanto, Selo Sulistyo, Guntur Dharma Putra Abstract - Digital royalty distribution increasingly relies on metadata quality, ownership verification, and event-level usage records across heterogeneous digital platforms. However, inconsistencies in metadata governance and verification processes continue to reduce allocation reliability, traceability, and policy compliance in digital rights administration. This paper proposes Music Footprint, an event-level metadata governance framework that integrates metadata validation, provenance assessment, verification confidence, and royalty analytics to support transparent and auditable royalty allocation. The study employs a Design Science Research approach combined with system dynamics simulation to evaluate the influence of metadata completeness, ownership consistency, provenance integrity, and verification confidence on royalty eligibility and payout allocation over a 365-day operational horizon. The results demonstrate that metadata quality and verification consistency significantly influence allocation reliability and payout traceability. The proposed framework contributes to data governance and quality management by positioning metadata verification as a governance control mech- anism for accountable and policy-aligned digital royalty administration.
