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Welcome to ipda website...
Performing artists enjoy in many
countries around the world an intellectual property right in their performance in
analogous way as the authors enjoy an intellectual property right in their works.
Thus for instance if a recording containing the performing artists’ performance
is broadcast or in an other way communicated to the public remuneration is due for
the benefit of the participating performers. Such remuneration rights are managed
collectively by performers’ societies. These have the task to identify the performing
artists whose recorded performances have been used in order to be able to distribute
the remuneration collected by them for the entitled performers in their own countries
and abroad.. For many years the societies have lacked an identification number linked
to the performing artist to enable them to deal efficiently with performers’ data.
Eighteen collecting societies therefore have established in 1997 the International
Performers’ Data Base Association (IPDA) with the goal of setting up an International
Performers’ Database (IPD) in order to solve the problem of the identification of
the performers taking part in the played recordings. The IPD assigns a unique ID
number to each performing artist. By March 2007 30 performers’ collecting societies
adhere to the IPDA and more than 330’000 performing artist are registered in the
IPD. In the following pages we are most happy to show you precisely how the IPDA
deals the performers’ data.
José Luis Sevillano
Chairman IPDA
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