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The Indian Phonographic Industry
(IPI), the Association of Phonogram Producers, was Established
in 1936, and it was Instrumental in finalising the Broadcasting
License arrangement in India. Subsequently, IPI members
decided to form a specialised body to administer their
Public Performance and Broadcasting Rights, and so PPL
came into being in 1941.
Incidentally, IPI changed its name to The
Indian Music Industry (IMI) in 1994.
The Phonographic Performance Ltd. (PPL) has been functioning
as the Performing Rights Society for Sound Recordings.
After the recent amendments in copyright law, PPL was
Registered with the Registrar of Copyrights, Government
of India in 1996, as the Copyright Society, permitted
to carry on business in Sound Recordings.
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is a bundle of rights, which comprises the right
to authorise reproduction of the sound recording,
the performance of the sound recording in public,
its broadcast and inclusion in a program service.
In practice, no copyright owner administers his
copyright alone. As it is beyond the ability of
any individual record manufacturer to authorise
every use of his sound recording or to enforce his
rights effectively with every potential music user
worldwide. Collecting societies were established
to authorise the use of sound recordings and to
negotiate their terms of remuneration with high
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Performance Limited (PPL-India) is the copyright society
in respect of sound recording, registered with the Government
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 Functions
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Issue
of Licenses
One of the Key functions of PPL is to negotiate
terms of use, typically on a blanket basis, with
representative trade associations of users, in the
broadcasting, television Internet or other category
of users namely Hotels, Discotheques, Restaurants
cinemas etc. PPL collects the royalties due direct
from each licensee, according to the terms of the
license.
Music reporting
The license requires the licensees to provide data,
on electronic reporting formats where possible,
listing each work performed by the licensee, the
title, the duration, the labels using standard ISRC
codes, where possible. The amount of reporting required
from each licensee is calculated according to a
statistical sample, and relates to the revenue collected.
Documentation
PPL maintains a database of members sound recordings,
enabling it to identify and pay the RECORDING COMPANIES
in every recording used, according to the agreed
tariff.
Distribution
PPL matches/ analyses performances against its database
of sound recordings in order to allocate the correct
proportion of the revenues collected under license
to the appropriate right-owners. These are distributed
on a regular basis to the members of the society.
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has its registered and administrative office in
Mumbai. It has its licensing offices at New Delhi
and Madras (Chennai). |
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