GRD for Publishers
A number of organisations representing publishers’ interests are being engaged as part of the GRD project. These include:
- BMG Rights Management
- EMI Music Publishing
- ICMP (International Confederation of Music Publishers)
- Kobalt
- Music Sales
- peermusic
- Schubert Music
- Sony/ATV
- Universal Music Publishing
- Warner Chappell
Benefits
The anticipated benefits to this stakeholder group are:
- Streamlined copyright registration requiring less time and effort
- Fewer counter-claims and less duplicated effort to resolve these
- Enables more accurate invoicing, freeing the flow of royalties to societies
- Reduced cost and effort to transfer catalogues
- Centralised picture of Sync and Print rights ownership