IP Association & Collecting Societies
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The Business Software Alliance (BSA) represents the world’s leading business software developers including Adobe, Apple Computer, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, Corel Corporation, Macromedia, Microsoft, Network Associates, Symantec, AccTrak21 and Inprise.
BSA’s mission is to educate computer users on software copyrights; advocate public policy that fosters innovation and expands trade opportunities; fight software piracy.
Members of the public are encouraged to approach the local BSA office if they wish to provide information on software piracy or require further information on legal software usage.
BSA also distributes a Software Management Guide free of charge to companies and the general public. The Guide outlines the basic steps for practising legal software management.
BSA's address, contact numbers, email address and website address:
Business Software Alliance
300 Beach Road, The Concourse #32-07, Singapore 199555
Tel: (65) 6292 2072, Fax: (65) 6292 6369
Email: joannew@bsa.org
Website: www.bsa.org |
IFPI (The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) represents the recording industry worldwide. It has more than 1,400 record companies in over 70 countries,ranging from producers or distributors of sound recordings, major international record companies to small independent producers. Its major members in Asia include EMI Music, Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, BMG Music, Rock Records and Pony Canyon. National Groups representing local record companies are officially recognised by IFPI in 46 countries, including Recording Industry Association (Singapore) (RIAS) in Singapore.
IFPI’s goal is to ensure that the recording industry is able to realise its potential throughout the world - by securing effective legislation, and unrestricted access to markets, both in the physical and on-line environment. In order to achieve this, IFPI activities cover a number of areas including anti-piracy enforcement, new technologies, promoting national legislation and international conventions and providing information on the international music market.
Members of the public can approach IFPI if they wish to discuss applicable copyright or market access issues relating to the recording industry.
IFPI's address, contact numbers, email address and website address:
IFPI (South East Asia) Ltd
16/F Guardian House, 32 Oi Kwan Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2866 6862, Fax: (852) 2865 6326
Email: Hongkong@ifpi.org, info@ifpi-asia.com.hk
Website: www.ifpi.org |
The Recording Industry Association (Singapore) or RIAS is a non-profit trade association representing both foreign and local record companies in Singapore. It is the Singapore representative of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
RIAS's missions are to maintain and foster trade ethics and fair business practices in the industry, create, promote and defend the rights of the owners of recordings as provided by legislation and contracts etc. It also collects royalty payments on behalf of members for the use of phonograms and videograms through the Recording Industry Performance Singapore Pte Ltd (RIPS).
RIAS also works to maintain proper and equal working ethics and generally conduct activities to promote the industry. This includes the maintaining of hits charts, monitoring of the sales so as to provide adequate and timely information to the participating members. Where necessary, the association will have ad hoc projects to address problems that face the industry generally. The Recording Industry Association also undertakes various public education projects to alert the public to the piracy problem and to educate them on the importance of respecting copyright.
Members of the public can approach RIAS if they wish to discuss applicable copyright issues in Singapore vis-à-vis the interests of both local and international recording companies.
The Recording Industry Association (Singapore)'s address, contact numbers, email address and website address:
4 Leng Kee Road, #03-07 SiS Building, Singapore 159088
Tel: (65) 6220 4166, Fax: (65) 6220 9452
Email: info@rias.org.sg
Website: www.rias.org.sg |
The Recording Industry Performance Singapore Pte Ltd (RIPS) is a collective licensing body representing a number of record companies.
RIPS is empowered to exercise the rights of these companies by granting requisite licences for the public performance of all music videos and karaoke videos owned or controlled by these companies.
Members of the public who intend to cause music and/or karaoke videos to be seen in public, broadcasted (including transmission by satellite) or transmitted by cable programme service should obtain an appropriate licence before carrying out such an act. For example, one would require permission from a record company before the record company’s music and/or karaoke videos can be used in bars, pubs, lounges, discotheques, cafes, restaurants, retail shops, department stores, community centres, cruise ships, health and fitness centres, hotels and private clubs etc. The typical applicant will be one who wish to use these music and/or karaoke videos to provide karaoke entertainment, music video featured entertainment or music video background entertainment to the public or a section of the public.
RIPS will grant a licence to the applicant subject to the terms and conditions stated in the application form and payment of an appropriate fee. The licence gives permission to the applicant to use all or any of the music video and/or karaoke videos belonging to the recording companies listed in the application form.
Licence fees are generally assessed under the standard tariffs and are granted either on an annual basis or to cover one-off single events. Usage which does not fall into the standard tariffs (including multi-media and internet etc) will be considered on a case-by-case basis. When in doubt, enquiries should be made to RIPS.
RIPS's address, contact numbers, email address and website address:
The Licensing Department,
Recording Industry Performance Singapore Pte Ltd
4 Leng Kee Road, #03-07, SiS Building, Singapore 159088
Tel: (65) 6220 4166, Fax: (65) 6220 9452
Website: www.rips.com.sg |
InnoForm Entertainment Pte Ltd is a private organization that administers the reproduction rights of karaoke and music videos on behalf of major record companies. For a list of the record companies that are represented by InnoForm Entertainment Pte Ltd, please go to InnoForm Entertainment Pte Ltd’s website indicated below.
It should be noted that the reproduction rights of karaoke and music videos administered by InnoForm Entertainment Pte Ltd are distinct from the public performance rights of karaoke and music videos which are administered by the Recording Industry Performance Singapore Pte Ltd (RIPS).
Members of the public or businesses who wish to make reproductions and/or store karaoke and/or music videos on servers should obtain an appropriate licence before proceeding with any such act.
For instance, establishments which intend to use a karaoke-on-demand (KOD) system in their course of business should first obtain a licence to do so from InnoForm Entertainment Pte Ltd. KOD systems are generally automated databases of digitalized karaoke and music videos which allow patrons to request for songs without the need for a manual switching of laser discs or other physical media. The fees charged cover the act of making a reproduction in the digitized media from the physical media.
For more details on the license fees, the required forms and any other related enquiries, please contact InnoForm Entertainment Pte Ltd at the following contact details below:
InnoForm Entertainment Pte Ltd's address, contact numbers, email address and website address:
The Licensing Department
InnoForm Entertainment Pte Ltd
10 Ubi Crescent, #05-88 Ubi Techpark Lobby E, Singapore 408564
Tel: (65) 6848 1212
Fax: (65) 6848 1133
Email: licensing@innoform.com.sg
Website: www.innoform.com.sg |
The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organisation established in 1926 with its headquarters based in Paris, France. It has observer status with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and represents 198 member societies which in turn represent 2.5 million composers, authors, publishers and other copyright owners worldwide.
CISAC’s aims are to protect the moral, professional, economic and legal interests attached to every kind of literary or artistic production of its members. It also co-ordinates the technical activities of copyright societies (also known as collective management organisations or authors’ societies) and serves as an international centre of research and information.
The Asia-Pacific Regional Office of CISAC, which is based in Singapore, also helps to create collective management organisations in the region e.g., the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore Ltd (COMPASS), Music Authors’ Copyright Protection Bhd (MACP), the Yayasan Karya Cipta Indonesia (KCI) in Indonesia, Music Copyright Society of China, Music Copyright (Thailand) Ltd in Thailand and Music Copyright Intermediary Society of Chinese Taipei in Taipei.
CISAC's Asia-Pacific Regional Office's address, contact numbers, email address and website address:
77A Duxton Road, Singapore 089536
Tel: (65) 6225 5025, Fax: (65) 6225 5153
Email: ang_kt@cisacap.com.sg
Website: www.cisac.org |
The Composers and Authors Society of Singapore Ltd (COMPASS) is a non-profit public company which administers the public performance, broadcast, diffusion and reproduction rights in music and musical associated literary works on behalf of its members (composers, authors and music publishers). By virtue of the reciprocal agreements with many other similar music copyright organisations around the world, COMPASS protects an extensive repertoire written by thousands of songwriters and composers worldwide.
COMPASS deals specifically with music copyrights and the usage of musical works. Its role is hence different from that performed by the Recording Industry Performance Singapore Pte Ltd (RIPS) which deals with music videos and karaoke videos.
The goal of COMPASS to provide for its members and licensees total and quality service in the administration of music copyrights. This involves a number of services including:-
- for its members e.g., composers, lyricists and publishers, COMPASS administers the full range of music copyrights of these members. It also promote and safeguard the collective interests of its members and accord recognition and awards to outstanding members. It also provides consultancy services and raise the profile of members (and their repertoire) at local and international levels. COMPASS also conducts professional seminars/forums for members
- for licensees i.e. music users, it provides licences for public performances and provide clearance of copyright for mechanical reproduction and synchronisation of musical works. It also provides computerised song search services on copyright ownership information.
A proprietor of a business that provides music to the public, or if music is used in any entertainment that he/she provides, a licence from COMPASS is required. Examples of premises requiring annual licences are discotheques, nightclubs, karaoke lounges, pubs, restaurants, hotels, clubs, cinemas, concert halls, factories, skating rinks, hairdressing salons, fitness centres, office buildings and shopping centres. Permits are also granted to organisers of ad-hoc events. Any event other than a dramatico-musical work, an oratorio or other choral work, or a ballet, would require a permit from COMPASS if it involves the public performance of copyright musical works. E.g. of parties who require permits are organisers of concerts, exhibitions, promotional events, dinner and dances, carnivals and fun fairs.
In addition to licences and permits, COMPASS also assists music users who need to seek clearance for reproduction of copyright musical works. E.g., if you are making a record of a copyrighted work on CD, tape or any other format, making a soundtrack for a cinematographic film using a copyrighted work, making a commercial jingle or an accompaniment to commercial advertising using a copyright work or reproducing a work in printed form.
The Copyright Licensing and Administration Society of Singapore Ltd (CLASS) is a non-profit society established in September 1999 by a group of international and local academic book publishers and local authors in Singapore.
Its founding members include some of the world's major book publishers such as Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley, Thomson Learning, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Times Publishing, Springer Verlag, MPH Education and World Scientific Publishing. Ordinary members include Harcourt Asia, SNP Editions, SNP Education, SNP Publishing, Ethos Books as well as local authors like Catherine Lim, Leong Wern Fook and Claire Chiang.
One of its main aims is to protect copyright and champion the interests of book publishers and authors in the country.
Through a programme of public education, promotion, licensing and enforcement, CLASS hopes published creative works can be better protected while the respect for copyright is attained.
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is a trade association representing seven of the largest producers and distributors of filmed entertainment (in the United States). Its corporate members are: Buena Vista International, Inc.; Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International, Inc.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Twentieth Century Fox International Corporation; Universal International Films, Inc.; and Warner Bros. International Theatrical Distribution, a Division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P.
Among its major activities, the MPA seeks to eliminate restrictive trade regulations and non-tariff trade barriers to allow free competition in the international marketplace, assists in the drafting of international treaties that affect the marketing, sales, leasing, taxation and distribution of the products of the U.S. film industry; acts as liaison between its member companies and agencies and departments of the U.S. Government on matters related to international commerce; negotiates industry-wide agreements abroad on matters related to the theatrical presentation, home video distribution, television syndication, and transmission and retransmission of television programs and films, protects the rights of copyright owners in the international marketplace, works with the film industries of other countries on matters of common interest designed to preserve the freedom of the marketplace and directs a worldwide anti-piracy effort to protect U.S. films and home video.
MPA’s address, contact numbers and website address:
101 Thomson Road, United Square #07-06, Singapore 307591
Tel: (65) 6253 1033, Fax: (65) 6255 1838
Website: www.mpaa.org |
Music Publishers (S) Ltd (MPS) was incorporated on 17th January 1989. It is an association currently comprising 12 music publishing companies who controls a large number of music copyrights in Singapore.
It is a non-commercial and non-profit making organisation and its principal activities are to act as a representative of the music publishers of Singapore in particular:
- To promote and protect by all lawful means the interests of the music publishers and (so far as is not inconsistent with the interests of music publishers) of other musical copyright owners of Singapore and generally to watch over and preserve the interest of all music publishers.
- To diffuse among its Members information upon all matters affecting the business of music publishers.
- To exercise and enforce on behalf of its members and their composers all rights and remedies subsisting under the law of copyright in Singapore and in all other countries or territories throughout the world.
A piece of music composition is the unique creation of a songwriter and is therefore "private property". When using a music composition, prior copyright clearance must always be sought with the publisher representing that work here in Singapore. It does not matter how the composition is used - whether as mobile phone ring-tones; on compact discs, VCD, DVD; in TV commercials, movies; as print formats (as in music scores, song sheets, song books, lyrics printed in magazines, or displayed in websites) or any other formats etc. Failure to do so would constitute copyright infringement. Based on the type of usage, publishers would be able to quote on the approximate fee payable.
Copyright clearances can be sought with MPS at its email address: info@mps.org.sg or with each of its following members. Currently, the members of MPS are: BMG Music Publishing Singapore Pte Ltd, EMI Music Publishing Singapore, Forward Music Publisher Pte Ltd, HIM International Music Pte Ltd, Life Music Publishing Pte Ltd, Music & Melody Publishing Pte Ltd, Peermusic Pacific Pte Ltd, Rock Music Publishing (S) Pte Ltd, Sony Music Publishing (Pte) Ltd, Touch Music Publishing Pte Ltd, Universal Music Publishing Pte Ltd and Warner/Chappell Music Singapore Pte Ltd .
Other contact information:
Registered address:
2 Havelock Road #07-06, Apollo Centre, Singapore 059763
Website: www.mps.org.sg
Ms Dulcie Soh
BMG Music Publishing Singapore
Tel: 6278 8388 ext 882
Fax: 6270 7049
Ms Carol Chan
EMI Music Publishing Singapore
Tel: 6270 9636
Fax: 6270 5987
Mr Richard Ho
Rock Music Publishing (S) Pte Ltd
Tel: 6286 5066 ext 133
Fax: 6281 6533
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Ms Sharon Chua
Sony Music Publishing (Pte) Ltd
Tel: 6381 1225
Fax: 6286 1266
Ms Karen Sim
Universal Music Publishing Pte Ltd
Tel: 6740 3761
Fax: 6741 0500
Ms Gerline Lim
Warner/Chappell Music Singapore Pte Ltd
Tel: 6223 1688
Fax: 6225 7830
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