Existing Members

In line with the Copyright Rules, 2013, IPRS distributes royalties on a quarterly basis to its members.

IPRS issues licenses and/or collects royalties in respect of its song repertoire. Unless members register their individual repertoires with IPRS it will be unable to efficiently collect or distribute royalties in respect of its logged royalty collections from licensees. IPRS members are required to register their works with IPRS as per the different types of “Work notifications” forms provided on the IPRS website at –Click Here.
IPRS also periodically advises members to update or provide their works to IPRS –
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Paragraph 2.14 of the IPRS Distribution Rules / Scheme and Methods (available at
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Yes! Absolutely! Let’s be clear – if the author of the original lyric and musical composition are not credited in the new song this will be a violation of the “Author’s Special Right” or Moral Right of the Author recognized under Section 57 of the Copyright Act, 1957. If on the other hand, the metadata/ works registration data does not include the original author and music composer this will violate the original Authors right to receive royalty and will be actionable under the law. IPRS ensures that the original author of lyrics and music receive due credit within the IPRS system by encouraging original authors to make claims with IPRS. Such original authors will also receive their share of royalty along with the new authors equally from IPRS, subject to such original and/or new authors being members of IPRS of course.