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British Music Industry Organisations
An industry trade body set up in 1999 to represent, promote and protect the interests of independent record companies.
A UK trade organisation formed specifically to act and represent the interests of music retailers.
A trade body that help represent the interests of British record companies.
This organisation administrates and markets the ‘official’ music industry charts as used by the BBC and ‘Music Week’.
The IFPI is the international federation of the music industry, who are particularly interested in copyright issues.
An organisation that represents composers and publishers for the recording of their music.
An organisation that protects the rights of musicians.
The Performing Right Society collects license fees from the copyright of recorded music from users and distributes royalties to composers and publishers.
This is a collection society that deals with the copyright of the song and issues licences to anyone who plays recordings of songs and distributes royalties to copyright holders.