IPI, ISRC, and ISWC: Essential Tools for Effective Music Rights Management

Collective Management Organizations and Performing Rights Organizations traditionally play a pivotal role in administering, collecting, and distributing royalties related to copyrighted works, particularly music. These organizations utilize unique identifiers such as ISWC, ISRC, IPI, IPN, and ISNI to track and ensure music creators receive their due royalties.

In the music industry, it is crucial to identify and track various types of content, along with the individuals and organizations involved in their creation and distribution. Different types of identifiers serve specific purposes and formats, ensuring accurate royalty payments, proper music credits, and precise sales and distribution reporting.

Unique identifiers like ISWC, ISRC, IPI, IPN, and ISNI are indispensable in the music industry. They play a critical role in distinguishing and managing musical compositions and recordings, guaranteeing precise attribution, identifying rights holders, facilitating efficient music rights management, and ensuring equitable royalty distribution.

- ISWC identifies the musical work.
- ISRC identifies the sound recording.
- IPI identifies the legal rightsholder.
- IPN identifies performers.

IPI (Interested Party Information), serves as a permanent and unique identifier for rights holders associated with musical works, similar to a social security number for legal entities such as writers and publishers. This identifier is exclusively issued by Performing Rights Organizations (PROs), ensuring swift identification of rights holders and expedited royalty payments, especially for works ineligible for ISWCs.

IPN (Interested Party Number) – it is used to accurately identify performers on sound recordings, and is essential, ensuring proper crediting, compensation, and facilitating international collaboration among Collective Management Organizations.

ISRC (The International Standard Recording Code) - catalogues individual sound recordings worldwide, distinguishing each recording with a unique 12-character alphanumeric code. It verifies artist names, track titles, album names, label names, and UPCs, ensuring accurate royalty collection across physical products, digital downloads, and streams. If your recording is publicly released, an ISRC is necessary to register songs for royalty collection and ensure proper compensation.

ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code)- identifies compositions and protects musical elements like melody and lyrics, crediting composers and lyricists. A composition may have multiple sound recording versions.

Conclusion:
Ensuring fair compensation and effective management of music copyright requires the adoption and accurate use of these unique identifiers. ISRCs and ISWCs act as digital fingerprints, akin to barcodes, enabling tracking of song streams and facilitating royalty distribution through global collection systems. These identifiers are crucial tools for rights management, establishing a transparent and efficient music industry ecosystem.

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The beautiful Enugu state was the state I was posted to for my law school and as part of the Curriculum in the law school we were posted to a law firm so as to gain practical experience of things we were being taught in school. I was posted to Onyi Akpangbo and associates, a firm in Enugu city for my chambers attachment.

One of my trips to the law firm coincided with the Biafra day, I saw how shops were closed and radio presenters were extolling the virtues of Ojukwu and Nnamdi Kanu, comparing them to Moses and Joshua in the Bible.

Upon getting to the law firm, I asked my principal what he thinks about the Biafra war and Nnamdi Kanu’s clamor for secession. To my surprise, he told me that he actually participated actively in the Biafra war and decided to share his experience with me.

He told me that his parent gave birth to three male children and he was the last born. That at the beginning of the war his brothers were enlisted in the Baifran Army however due to the fact that he was the last born and very young at the time , his mum insisted that he would not join the Baifran Army. He said fighting in the war back then was a thing of pride and he didn’t want to be seen as a coward. So he strategized a way of joining the Army, and the strategy was for him to enter the Army truck coming to carrying people forcefully enlisted into the Baifran Army.

He successfully executed the plan and joined the army without the knowledge and approval of his mother or elder brothers. He was one of the best during Army recruit training, having this zest and readiness for war. He was posted to the war frontline, and during the war he had to share a gun with someone. He will shoot and then hand the gun over to the person he was sharing with, to try his luck on killing at least “one Nigerian soldier”. It was a traumatic experience and after the first few days he was already low on morale, coupled with the fact that they were basically scavenging for food.

His proudest moment while participating in the war was when they killed over 20 soldiers of the Nigerian Army and made them retreat, he and the other soldiers got a handshake from Ojukwu and praises on the radio. However, because his brothers were holding top positions in the army they were able to do an extensive search and found him. He was immediately taken back to his mum.
As he regaled me with the woes of the war, he brought out a Biafran shilling and British shilling, and said that this was the means of exchange during the war.

He ended on the note that Igbos clamoring for violent secession were not born during the war and that nobody who fully participated in the war will want a reoccurrence. He further enjoined the Igbos to focus more on developing their region, that way they won’t depend on the Federal government for anything.

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thesicilian:
No Chibok girl was kidnapped

are you serious right now??

On the 20th of January 2012, I witness firsthand the horror of terrorism being perpetuated by boko haram. I lost two friends in this attack by boko haram, was almost killed myself. They justified the killing of my two friends with the statement that they were Christians who preached western values and as such they are not wanted in Kano state. I grieved over their death for several months because I felt that they did not deserve to die. Upon hearing the abduction of the 276 Chibok school girls and Shekau statement after the kidnap ‘’slavery is allowed in my religion, Allah instructed me to sell them and I will carry out his instruction ‘it sent a chill down my spine and I couldn’t help but empathize with the parents of those girls.
Voltaire once said those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities, he is right because that is the only justifiable reason I can get for the abduction, killings and other inhumane activities being perpetuated by boko haram. I can’t fathom any joy or gain there is in causing pain to other people, depriving them of basic necessities of life because they don’t adhere to your believes. Yet desperate but powerless after 3 years, still relying on a miracle this Chibok girls and their family deserve better. The young girls studying hard at school before their mass kidnapping has now become a symbol of our apparent weakness to protect the young lives.
Tragically news about the girls of Chibok has now become like hearsay or some farfetched theory and the harsh reality is that the girls, most with dreams of a university degree and careers, has vanished from the face of the earth as the world patiently waits. The treatment of the Chibok girls is among one of the worst horrors inflicted daily on children in conflict zones in a rising number of civil wars which are now at its highest level in 40years. It’s been three whole years and still their parents wake up each morning not knowing whether their daughters are alive or dead, married or single or violated as slaves. They surely deserve more than a forlorn of hope.
The government has done quite a lot within these 3years of the girls’ abduction, coupled with the rescue rehabilitation and reintegration of 80 out of 276 Chibok girls that are in boko haram captivity, but the government needs to do more to rescue the remaining girls still in captivity and president Muhammad Buhari needs to keep his promise as stated during his inauguration “The nation cannot claim to have defeated boko haram without rescuing the Chibok girls and all other innocent persons held hostage by the insurgent. The government will do all it can to rescue them alive”. We the citizens need to do more to pressurize the government to act and also pass the violence against persons prohibition bill (VAAP) that ensure the prosecution of those responsible for sexual violence once captured.
# 3 YEARS TOO LONG
# NO MORE EXCUSES
# BRING BACK OUR GIRLS

Xapio:
They said he released money without appropriation by NASS and I ask, the one Buhari shared to governors as bailout, was it appropriated by NASS? Bunch of shameless and hyprocritic ediots..

.............. The money shared by Buhari to the governors, yes were not appropriated but the process was transparent and was also for the right reasons, what then can you say about the 2.1billion naira shared among a selected few, for special prayers, please tell me where that is tenable

I am not surprised coz someone like el rufai who is known for not allowing corruption during his time as an fct minister under obj,has continue that trend and the corrupt bad eggs in k.d are not comfortable with it,so they want disrupt his government

[color=#990000][/color],my question is this,now that he has being elected Governor of kogi state,who is his deputy,and what happens to the former deputy governorship candidate of the APC, I really see this case going to court