Team Behind IPRS

The membership team is the gateway into our world here at IPRS. The team ensures that our members' journey with IPRS is smooth sailing from the beginning. Our primary aim is to build awareness about IPRS and the critical role that a copyright society plays for music creators. The primary function is to appeal to new members from all genres of music from all around the country and build a strong community of music makers. The seamless onboarding of members regularly has resulted in a total count of over 9000 members. It is vital to have a rewarding and fruitful relationship with the members through constant communication, resolution of queries, and upskilling. The membership team, in an attempt to upskill our members, arranges regular training activities and events as well as educates them about their rights as music makers. The Membership department of IPRS serves as a liaison between members and internal departments, and all member concerns are handled via them. The Membership department plays a dominant role in sustaining the music economy by adding Composers, Authors, and Publishers to the music community and creating awareness about the benefits of IPRS membership as a music maker.

Administering licenses to music users for commercial usage of music is arguably one of the most challenging and critical functions at IPRS. Compliance with the law is the need of the hour, thus the licensing regime aims to make commercial music users pay for licenses so our members get their rightful dues.

Under licensing, several branches deal with various platforms. The public performance team monitors licensing for all public places like Bars, Pubs, Malls, retail outlets, commercial venues, hotels, live events, and commercial places where music is played. The broadcasting team deals with the work displayed on platforms such as television, radio, etc, and all broadcasting platforms. The OTT team deals with various Digital Service Providers and Online platforms for license acquisition. It is this gamut of teams that ensures that Creators are duly compensated for their creations.

The Legal team is the guiding light for all legal and statutory matters. While we have multiple teams to make sure that every step of the business is meticulously managed and executed to the best benefit of our members, things are not as simple as it seems. Even with the systems and process and the law in place, there are multiple challenges as a copyright society we have to face. Being a copyright society, it is imperative that we are particular about our documents and agreements while being compliant. From the intricacies of signing with us to the collection of royalties to licensing, the legal team offers help in every legal matter. Compliance being one of the biggest issues faced by our society, the legal team stands up and fights those legal battles against music users who are reluctant or ignorant about the need to procure licenses. We as a copyright society aim to expand our global footprint. The International relations partners up with our sister societies only to assure global assurance for music makers all around the world .. Helping music users to make commercial use of the music by ensuring the proper implementation of the word of law is the prime concern of the legal team at IPRS.

The distribution team allocates the money against the works registered to help remunerate the rightful owners in the most accurate manner. The herculean task of managing trillion lines of data and allocating the revenue generated to the member is undertaken by the distribution team. This is done by matching the music usage to the data received by our members' works. The distribution team also analyses data inconsistencies received from various music platforms and forwards them to the documentation team to be rectified with the members. The distribution process has been streamlined to improve efficiency and decrease errors in royalty allocation. The team identifies non-members and their royalty collections using the music usage data collected, which assists the membership team in reaching out to potential members to join IPRS and earn their credits.

This team is the backbone of IPRS and facilitates the registration of the works submitted by the members. It goes without saying that the foundation of the music and royalty industries is Metadata. The lack of proper Metadata has been the bane of the music industry for years. Inaccurate meta-data has led to huge financial losses for creators and Publishers. This is where the critical role of the documentation team at IPRS comes to the fore. Focusing on accuracy, the documentation team verifies and ensures that only error-free data is ingested into our system, thus ensuring accurate data and proper royalty distribution to our members. The Documentation Team regularly conducts online training sessions with the members to help in the smooth transition from offline to online. We are gradually transitioning away from hard copies and toward uploading work in a soft copy format. This is a significant step toward a digital, paperless, and simple process for members to submit their works.

The lack of awareness among users about the fact that the music they are listening to is illegally procured needs to be corrected. The sole purpose of the Corporate Communications department is to convey to our desired audience this fundamental truth about music Licensing and Copyright laws. It also tries to build a successful image for us both internally and externally by ensuring clear communication throughout. The impact we are creating with our purposeful initiatives like "Credit the creator" and "Fair pay and Fair play of music" have revealed IPRS as a thought leader in the vast realm of music. A creative world of tomorrow, we believe, can only be fortified with a strong community that goes out of its way to protect the rights of its creative community. The Corporate Communication division is the de facto voice of brand IPRS, engaged in crafting personalized messaging and emitting it through all the available channels of communication

As our organization is growing and reaching new heights, it is only fitting that the best individuals work and upskill for higher performance rates. The HR team develops the organization from within and recruits highly motivated individuals dedicated to reaching new milestones with us. The HR goes the extra mile in setting the seal on drawing the best employee performances through monitoring and regular upskilling via training and other intensive programs and events. HR plays a significant role in developing positive business culture and improving employee engagement and productivity. The HR function also takes the lead on employee wellness and personal development.

Information technology is ubiquitous today. It became apparent during the COVID period that the wheels of commerce ran on the services provided by Information Technology (IT). IPRS also reinvented itself with the changing dynamics of music consumption. And with it, the role of IT became pervasive since it is impossible to process trillions of lines of data manually to identify the works of our members and claim them for distribution to our members. With member work data registered crossing the 1.1 million mark, numerous claims, data, enrollment, licensing, and other peripheral activities IPRS is saddled with a series of responsibilities. At IPRS, we deal with the collection and filtering of data, it is therefore only reasonable that our IT team provides us with the best-in-class infrastructure, thoroughly secure in every way to meet the rising demands of the organization. From the moment a member has decided to join us till the moment the member receives their royalty, we are reliant on robust technology for everything to happen in an easy transition. Keeping with its vow to bring transparency to its members, IPRS has tied up with BackOffice Music services to provide a world-class Members Portal. The portal allows them to have control over their profile, update their information, and submit new work, all of which could not have been possible without the IT team. The blueprint of how our organization runs smoothly depends on the framework set up by our IT department. We are also the proud owners of the ISO certificate for improved security of our members' data.