FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF IMPF

IMPF started the Friends and Supporters programme in 2021 to offer those who wish to support the independent music publishing community worldwide the chance to do so. IMPF is the only global trade body that represents independent music publishing companies exclusively, and the programme allows entities or individuals to align with those companies via IMPF‘s values and mission.

The IMPF Friend and Supporters Engagement policy can be found here.

The IMPF Friends and Supporters Fact Sheet outlines the programme. See here.

The IMPF Friends and Supporters Q&A series has recently been launched. Members can find out more about our Friends and Supporters by clicking here.

If you would like further information please contact secretariat@impforum.org.

Currently the following companies are Friends and Supporters:

Abramus is a multi-repertoire CMO that has been operating in Brazil for more than 40
years. It is the largest copyright management company in Brazil, with more than
130,000 members from the territory. Abramus represents Brazil’s main composers, artists, record companies, musicians, and publishers, both major and independent, as well as directly representing several international clients in the territory. The organization also offers its members IT solutions and business intelligence for the management of music repertoires both online and offline.

AMRA takes a global, direct approach to digital licensing, collection, and administration, driven by the KTech rights management platform, which provides a streamlined model allowing AMRA to increase efficiencies. AMRA represents some of the world’s most successful songwriters through either direct affiliation with AMRA or its publisher representation agreements for global digital licensing administration.

ASCAP is a membership association of more than one million songwriters, composers and music publishers. ASCAP upholds the value of members’ music, and helps them thrive alongside the businesses that use their music every day.

Beam For Music is a tech-powered platform dedicated to helping rights holders, from independent publishers to labels and artists, to better track, understand, and manage their royalties. Built with fairness and transparency at its core, Beam combines innovative tools with a deep understanding of the music industry’s complexities. Founded in France, Beam works alongside music professionals to simplify rights management and support a more equitable music ecosystem.

Founded in 1939, BMI is currently the largest music rights management organisation in the US, acting as the bridge between songwriters and the businesses that want to play their music publicly.  As a global leader in music rights management, BMI represents over 22.4 million musical works created and owned by more than 1.4 million songwriters, composers and music publishers.

BMI

BumaStemra is an organisation representing music creators. We protect their copyright and make sure they are paid fairly for the music they create. We represent over 38.000 composers, songwriters and publishers in the Netherlands and abroad. We help them to achieve their ambitions and provide the link between music creators and music users. Wherever music is played, it enriches our lives. That deserves fair payment. BumaStemra is committed to protecting the value of music and music creators.

CMRRA, a SoundExchange company, is a licensing agency which represents over 90% of music publishers and self-published songwriters doing business in Canada. CMRRA licenses, collects, and distributes royalties for the majority of songs recorded, sold and broadcast in Canada. Innovators in licensing and royalty collection for over 48 years, CMRRA provides licenses to dozens of digital services, including all the major online music services operating in Canada as well as YouTube, the Meta platforms, TikTok and more.

SX Works Global Publisher Services (SX Works), which originated with SoundExchange’s acquisition of CMRRA, provides administration solutions to enable organizations who own, represent and/or engage with music to manage their repertoire across the music ecosystem, by leveraging an integrated musical works and sound recording database.

Downtown-owned Curve Royalty Systems has joined IMPF’s Friends and Supporters category.  Built by music royalties specialists, Curve’s platform is a powerful and complete solution for managing rights and calculating royalties related to both publishing and recorded rights.  Curve’s advanced toolset caters to multiple types of deals and complex deal scenarios, including, but not limited to: automated CWR generation and deliveries; rate escalations; black box revenue distribution; IP chain management; and online statement delivery.

ESMAA is a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi based PopArabia, the leading independent music company and music publisher in the Middle East for a decade, and a partner of twofour54, Abu Dhabi’s media and entertainment hub. ESMAA is a rights management entity working with global stakeholders in music to facilitate and provide music licenses in the Gulf region.

GEMA represents the copyrights of around 95,000 members in Germany, including composers, lyricists and music publishers, as well as over 2 million rights-holders from all over the world. It is one of the world’s largest authors’ societies for musical works.

ICE is a purpose-driven organisation, founded by rightsholders, for rightsholders.

We exist to support songwriters, enabling societies and publishers to accurately compensate them when their work is used internationally.

ICE

Koda is a Danish non-profit music rights organization that represents 51,000 composers, songwriters, and music publishers. The organization is dedicated to ensuring that its members receive fair compensation when their music is used. Koda wants to make a positive difference in both society and the music industry and is committed to working ambitiously to make the music industry more socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable.

LyricFind provides partners with an extensive catalogue of accurate and fully legal lyrics, licensed from more than 10,000 publishers and performing rights organisations around the world.  It is trusted by some of the top names in the industry, including Amazon, Google, YouTube, Deezer, Xperi, Soundhound, iHeartRadio and many others.

The Mint Companies license and/or administer copyrights for multi-territorial online usage on behalf of songwriters, composers and music publishers.  Mint Digital Services is the alliance between US music rights organisation SESAC, and Swiss collective management organisation SUISA. Under the joint venture, Mint administers licences to use musical compositions in multi-territorial online music services on behalf of publishers, collective management organisations and independent management entities.

Established in 1973, MPAJ is the sole body representing music publishing businesses in Japan. It has approximately 360 members, including most major music publishers. Many of its member publishers are master recording producers as well as copyright holders. The organisation engages in several services including distribution of broadcasting remuneration and record rental remuneration, and hosting seminars for music copyrights and interaction with overseas music businesses.

Muserk is a global rights management and technology company that helps music rights holders – from independent publishers to PROs and CMOs – maximise and collect royalties across all major platforms and territories. Leveraging its patented AI technology platform, Blue Matter, Muserk provides unmatched insight and automation to identify, track, and recover royalties worldwide. With deep expertise in copyright administration and data optimisation, Muserk empowers rights-holders with scalable, accurate, and transparent solutions. Headquartered in the US, Muserk is expanding its footprint across Europe and Asia to support the growing needs of the global independent publishing community.

MusicInfra provides a neutral, rights-data focused clearinghouse to support stakeholders across the industry.  Our AI-powered recognition and matching systems are built to rapidly increase connections between music usage and creators in order to maximize payments to rightsholders/creators, efficiently scale business across the landscape today, and enable new ways to monetize across the music ecosystem.

Musixmatch provides data, tools and services to enhance the music experience and empower creators. It has a lyrics catalogue with over 8 million songs and 80 supported languages. It supplies a range of platforms including the top global music DSPs, online search engines and social platforms.   Alongside lyrics, Musixmatch works to provide creators with tailored tools to help manage, claim, and distribute content.

NexTone is the only private-sector company in the music copyright administration business in Japan. It has managed a broad range of rights, including mechanical, digital, broadcasting and performing copyrights, in the territory since its establishment in 2000. NexTone works with a wide variety of rights-holders including the publishing arms of global video games companies and animation studios, major and independent music publishers, and individual songwriters.

Founded in 1917, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) is the trade association representing all American music publishers and their songwriting partners. Its mission is to protect, promote, and advance the interests of music’s creators. The NMPA is the voice of both small and large music publishers and is the leading advocate for publishers and their songwriter partners in the nation’s capital and in every area where publishers do business.

Established in 2005 On Music is based in the rapidly growing technology hub of Belfast, Northern Ireland. We are a trusted partner in providing complementary back office support for music and audio-visual copyright metadata processing and our clients are at the core of every decision we make. The skills and knowledge of our team have grown through experience of broadcast media, a passion for music and enthusiasm for technology. Working on a global scale we have the ability to make complex decisions software alone cannot handle.

Orfium is a global technology company that offers industry-leading metadata management software and music reporting solutions to creators, music rightsholders, and major broadcasters to streamline the monetization of music and solve the entertainment industry’s biggest challenges around digital music and broadcast rights management. From simplifying and automating cue sheet processes for broadcast entities to enhancing metadata management and optimizing revenue collection from user-generated content (UGC) platforms like YouTube, Orfium ensures that creators receive fair compensation for their work, regardless of where music is played.

Sacem has been leading the way for those that create: authors, composers and publishers. Voice for the creatives, trusted partner for music users, Sacem puts the spotlight on a variety of music from diverse genres. Sacem is constantly adding value to creation. It is committed to maximizing revenues for creators and publishers, while guaranteeing them a high level of service and support at every stage of their professional lives.

SESAC Music Group currently licenses the public performance of more than 1.5 million songs on behalf of its 15,000+ affiliated songwriters, composers, and music publishers.

SGAE represents more than 2,500 music publishers. In 2024, it reached the highest global revenue in its 125-year history, hitting €390 million. This figure represents an 11.7% year-on-year increase, €41million more than in 2023. The society distributed more than €349 million to its members, surpassing the previous financial year (329M) and marking the second-highest payout of authors’ rights ever. A  total of 83,602 SGAE members received royalties in 2024, up from 83,148 in 2023. SGAE distributes income received from on-line music platforms on a monthly basis, as well as royalties from major concerts (i.e. those generating more than €200,000 in box office revenue). All other income types are distributed quarterly. Currently, more than 2,500 music publishers are members of SGAE.

The Italian Society of Authors and Publishers is a collective management organization, i.e. a non-profit company that deals with the protection of copyright.

SOCAN is a collective management organisation in Canada representing both the performing and reproduction right. More than 185,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers are its direct members, and more than 100,000 organisations are licensed to play music across Canada.

STIM is a Swedish non-profit member organisation tasked with ensuring that its more than 109,000 affiliated rightsholders and music publishers get paid when their music is used. It provides conditions for creativity and regrowth in the Swedish music industry, and strives to ensure that there are strong copyright laws in place.

TONO is the Norwegian collective management organisation representing composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers. It manages rights and royalties for more than 43,000 creators and publishers in Norway, in addition to millions of international creators and publishers through reciprocal agreements with over 80 sister societies globally. Its primary mission is licensing music for public performances such as broadcasting, streaming, concerts and live events, cinema, and background music. With a vision of creating value for music creators and users, TONO ensures efficient rights management and advocates for fair compensation.

UBC was founded in 1942, serving composers, publishers, performers, musicians and labels. The organisation collects and distributes royalties on behalf of a vast domestic and international repertoire in Brazil. The organisation currently has close to 60% of market share among the seven Brazilian performance rights organisations. 

UBC

Vistex solutions help businesses take control of their mission-critical processes. The company’s enterprise software provides a high-volume, easily configured solution poised for traditional, current and future music business trends. Contracts, metadata and all royalty activity are captured in a single system, which is used for registration, licensing, sales, royalty reporting, analytics and more. This enables music companies to manage all aspects of their industry in a single solution.

ZAiKS is Poland’s largest collecting society, collecting and distributing royalties for creators and other rights-holders. It represents over 27,000 composers, songwriters, scriptwriters, playwrights, translators, visual artists, choreographers and artists from other fields of art, as well as 127 music publishers. The organisation is dedicated to developing, promoting and implementing solutions that support creators and creativity.

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