What services does IFPI provide?

IFPI Secretariat is organised into several departments that work in tandem with staff of the Regional Offices, according to the projects and issues involved. The key services offered directly by the Secretariat are:

Legal policy

• Working to introduce and to improve copyright laws in the environments of both on-line and physical distribution
• Formulating strategies for lobbying and advising legislative bodies, national governments and international agencies such as the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
• Developing policies and standards for e-commerce

Anti-piracy enforcement

• Central co-ordination of the international piracy effort
• Support from international investigators
• Training: Techniques for liaison with police, customs and security agencies
• How to put cases together: raids and seizures
• International CD Plant education programme
• Databases: International Intelligence and Pirate Product
• Technical assistance: surveillance techniques, security

Litigation & regulatory affairs

• Anti-piracy litigation
• Anti-piracy legal and lobbying strategies, in particular for CD plant regulations
• CD plant education and liason
• Regulatory compliance, including competition law and data protection
• Authors' rights issues
• Monitoring the Source Identification (SID) Code, the industry's anti-piracy identifier

Licensing & E-commerce

• Internet monitoring and closing of illegal sites
• Monitoring of performance rights licensing
• Advising on the establishment of collecting societies

Market research

• A wide range of industry statistical publications
• Regular reporting on world sales and piracy trends
• Country-by-country database on music industry conditions worldwide

Communications

• Public relations campaigns and events
• Regular news and information services within IFPI's structures
• Wide range of communications tools and resources (newsletter, brochures, videos, etc)
• Communications support for national groups and regional offices

Technology

• Developing technical measures to protect copyright (In co-operation with other industries)
• Setting standards for intellectual property protection in new devices. (in co-operation with manufacturers)
• Recording industry representation in inter-industry discussions on new forms of digital distribution and new formats (e.g. SDMI)

Library

• Resources on legal, trade and technological issues
• Information, enquiry and research service
• Regular news and current affairs bulletins