Welcome

Thank you for visiting the Global Repertoire Database Website

The scope of the GRD is to provide, for the first time, a single, comprehensive and authoritative representation of the global ownership and control of musical works.

Once deployed the GRD would save extensive costs currently lost to duplication in data processing.

These back-office savings might ultimately be re-invested in frontline services to increase the licensed usage of music, benefiting creators and rights-holders. The GRD would also reduce data management, working capital costs and aims to lower the administrative barriers to businesses seeking to distribute content online and ensure that creators of music are quickly and efficiently compensated for their work.

The Global Repertoire Database Working Group launched a Stakeholder Engagement and Scoping Study in October 2011. The Study involved industry-wide consultation to determine the technical, data, business process and organisational design aspects of the Global Repertoire Database, as well as the approach to governance and funding. A core group of around 20 representative organisations from around the world including publishers, songwriter associations, collecting societies and digital retailers worked on the Study with yet further consultation with a wider group of stakeholders. The outcome of the Study was a series of recommendations supported by extensive documentation on the detail of how the GRD would work. The recommendations were explained in two webinars at the end of March 2012. If you wish to listen and view one of the webinars, a recording is available here. All the stakeholder groups are currently soliciting feedback on the Recommendations with the clear intention of moving onto the next phase of work as soon as possible.

The organisations listed below are responsible for driving the project forward – together they form the GRD Working Group that governs the project:

• Publishers
• EMI Music Publishing
• Universal Music Publishing
• Societies
• APRA
• GEMA
• PRS for Music
• SACEM
• STIM

• Music Service Providers
• iTunes
• Google
• Omnifone

• Associations
• CISAC
• ECSA
• ICMP