FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF IMPF
In 2021 IMPF launched a Friends and Supporters category for companies wishing to align with independent music publishers.
The Friends and Supporters of IMPF is a category of engagement that IMPF offers to entities or individuals that wish to align with IMPF, but don’t meet the statutory criteria to join. It is a way to support the mission of IMPF, and its members, and is aimed at those who would like to have an open and transparent relationship with the independent music publishing community worldwide.
The IMPF Friend and Supporters Engagement policy can be found here.
The IMPF Friends and Supporters Fact Sheet outlines the programme. See here.
If you would like further information please contact secretariat@impforum.org.
ABRAMUS
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
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
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.
Backbeat Solutions
The Backbeat platform covers all aspects of rights and royalty management, with the company’s cloud-based software being built from the ground up for the modern music ecosystem. For music publishers, Backbeat’s software will self-regulate the whole CWR registration cycle by automatically recognising when new works or data-changes necessitate a registration shipment to the world’s PROs.
BMI
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.
CMRRA and SX Works
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.
Curve Royalty Systems
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
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.
ICE
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.
LyricFind
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.
MINT Digital Services
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.
MPAJ (Music Publishers Association Japan)
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.
MusixMatch
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
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.
On Music
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
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.
Pex
Pex is the leader in digital rights technology, enabling the fair and transparent use of copyright online. With Pex’s advanced identification technology, platforms can manage and license content at scale, allowing users to upload freely while respecting copyright. In return, rightsholders are able to monitor and capitalize on the content they own. Pex is on a mission to support the creator economy with fair and transparent copyright solutions. For more information, follow us on Twitter or visit the website.
QwantumRights
QwantumRights launched early 2021 with the purpose of helping copyright managers achieve excellence by leveraging cost-effective, scalable, and adaptable Copyright Management and Administration Back Office solutions, Data Management capabilities, and Consulting/Outsourcing services.
SACEM
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.
SOCAN
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.
The Raine Group
UBC
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.
Vistex
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.
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