Have you registered all your works yet?

Only a correct and timely registration of protected works shall enable IPF, k.o. to allocate the rights revenue to the rights holders entitled to it. The rights revenue consists of royalties and remuneration for the use of the protected works that IPF, k.o. collects based on ZASP and ZKUASP provisions, the current Rules on the use of phonograms (Pravilnik o uporabi fonogramov) and other regulations, tariffs and common agreements concluded with representative associations of users and/ or decisions of the Copyright board (Svet za avtorsko pravo), and distributes it in accordance with the Performers' rights revenue distribution rules and Phonogram producers' rights revenue distribution rules.

A protected work (a phonogram with performances) may be registered by a natural person or a legal entity that holds the rights in it and submits the required data. The rights holder may be a performer, a phonogram producer or a third party entitled to receive remuneration.

The phonogram data required to be submitted to IPF, k.o. and is necessary for the rights revenue allocation:

  • Recording title
  • Name of main artist or soloist
  • ISRC
  • Duration of recording
  • Year and country of the recording
  • Date and country of the first release
  • Album/ release title
  • Year and country of the album release
  • Name of the phonogram producer
  • Phonogram producer data (name, tax ID number, share in %)
  • Performers data (first and last name, tax ID number, role, type, share in %)

The performer data required to be submitted to IPF, k.o. and is necessary for the rights revenue allocation and related tax obligations::

  • Name and surname
  • Date, city and country of birth
  • Permanent and post delivery address
  • Contact data ((mobile) phone number, e-mail address)
  • Tax ID number, citizenship
  • Bank account number, bank name.

The data is usually submitted by the phonogram producer, but may be submitted also by a performer.

The data on phonogram producer is submitted by the phonogram producer or a phonogram producer's rights holder.

The phonogram producer data required to be submitted to IPF, k.o. and is necessary for the rights revenue allocation and related tax obligations:

  • Name and surname or name of the company,
  • Date, city and country of birth (for natural persons),
  • Permanent and post delivery address or head office address (for legal entities),
  • Contact data ((mobile) phone number, e-mail address),
  • Tax ID number, citizenship (for natural persons),
  • Bank account number, bank name.

IPF, k.o. collects the data on foreign phonogram producers who have not authorised IPF, k.o. directly or submitted data necessary for the rights revenue allocation and payment from the foreign phonogram producers repertoire agents and other collective management organisations with which IPF, k.o. has concluded agreements.

 

The individual rights holders' shares in a phonogram may be determined in the Registration of a recording form. In such case the form must include the signatures of all the rights holders in the phonogram or a document should be attached indicating that all the rights holders (separately for performers and phonogram producers) agree on the division of shares stated in the form. This shall also apply to any possible future revisions to the phonogram data, in case the revisions are related to the shares or affect any of the rights holders' rights in a phonogram in any other manner.

The recordings must be registered by 31 March of the current year for the prior exploitation period. The recording registrations received after 31 March of the current year shall be considered in the next exploitation period.

The recordings

may be registered

by any rights holder:

a phonogram producer

or a performer.

Registration of a recording

Prior to the registration of a recording the rights holders are advised to consult the Rules on registration of a recording, Performers' rights revenue distribution rules and Phonogram producers' rights revenue distribution rules governing the manner of the recording registration and the rights revenue distribution. All the before mentioned Rules may be found in ADMISS, in the Documents section.

Please note that all the obligatory data in the Registration of a recording form should be submitted or the registration shall not be considered valid. Furthermore, according to ZASP, all the performers that have participated in the recording should be listed in the form.

The form may be digitally signed by means of a digital certificate from one of the following issuers: Sigen-CA, PostaR-CA, Halcom, and NLB-CA. Please send us the digitally signed form by clicking the Send button.

Completing the form in PDF format electronically requires Adobe Reader, which may be downloaded free of charge from: https://get.adobe.com/si/reader/ .

With Google Chrome browser you are advised to first save the form in PDF format to your documents and then open it in Adobe Reader, since Chrome document viewer does not allow inserting text in the form.

If you have none of the above mentioned digital certificates, please print the completed form, sign it manually and send it to our postal address: IPF, k.o., Argentinska ulica 17, 1000 Ljubljana.

Forms

ISRC

What is ISRC?

The 12 characters long ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) code uniquely identifies sound recordings and music video recordings. It enables a simple identification of a recording, its owner, and who is entitled to a payment in case of its communication to the public. With the current state of technology such identification is indispensable. Namely, the digital distribution and use not related to the physical products are increasing in both extent and frequency.

The ISRC code was developed by IFPI (The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) in conjunction with ISO (International Organization for Standardization) in 1986. It differs from the catalogue numbers or barcodes by identifying the recording and not its physical carrier. In numerous countries, the ISRC codes already help register recordings automatically. In the future, we expect the same in Slovenia.

ISRC is an international identification system for sound recordings and music video recordings. Each ISRC is a unique and permanent code for a particular recording embedded into the recording. Each recording is provided its ISRC by a record label upon its release. The code remains unchanged even if the same recording is released on another sound recording. For example, a single of an individual performer appears first on his or her album in 2005, and later that year it also appears on the Greatest hits of 2005. The code remains unchanged even in case of a new owner.

IFPI recommends ISRC codes be used for all sound recordings and music video recordings.

As a national ISRC agency, IPF, k.o. has set up a website https://isrc.ipf.si where you can learn more about the ISRC code and apply for it by completing the form.

 

 

ISRC elements

ISRC consists of twelve characters divided into four code elements:

S I / A XX / 0 5 / 0 0 0 0 1

Country Code (1) / Registrant Code (2)/ Year of Reference (3) / Designation Code (4)

(1) The Country Code consists of two letters, SI for Slovenia.

(2) The Registrant Code consists of three characters and is assigned by the record label or the owner of the master recording before the first release. This code is not owner specific, therefore, it does not change in case of a new owner.

(3) The Year of Reference consists of two digits and refers to the year in which ISRC is allocated to the recording, not necessarily the year of its first release; namely, some recordings are assigned ISRC codes years after their first release.

(4) The Designation Code consists of five digits assigned by the record label or the owner of the master recording. Each year it should preferably start with 00001, and continue with 00002, 00003, etc.

How do I acquire ISRCs for my recordings?


For more information, please visit https://isrc.ipf.si