A new agreement between Indian music bodies IMI and ISRA will see performance rights revenues flowing to the latter’s artist members.
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IMI unimpressed by ‘bemusing’ YouTube report on Indian economy
In December, research firm Oxford Economics published a report commissioned by YouTube to quantify its impact in India.
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IMI chairman predicts some Indian music services ‘may just vanish’
If you read our new India country profile yesterday you’ll know about industry body IMI’s desire to grow paid streaming subscriptions there.
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Indian ISPs ordered to block access to stream-ripping websites
The IFPI and its member bodies have been taking on stream-ripping websites for several years now, seeing them as a new frontier for music piracy.
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India’s ‘informal’ music industry: DJs, indie artists, brass bands…
How many people work in India’s music industry? Whatever you guessed, it’s probably well short. The answer is 14 million.
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IMI outlines Covid-19’s streaming silver lining in India
Indian music industry body IMI has published its latest report, which includes data on how music has been “a savior in Covid-19 times”.
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IMI boss attacks music harm from ‘a thousand TikTok clones’
Blaise Fernandes takes aim at the boom in short-video apps following TikTok’s ban in India – and their ability to “deny copyright holders royalty payments”
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Indian music body IMI launches an international singles chart
The Indian music industry is kicking off a process of launching charts tracking the most popular music in the country, starting with an International Top 20 Singles Chart India which launched this […]
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IMI boss says there are only 1m music subscribers in India
Blaise Fernandes is the boss of Indian music industry body IMI. He’s been talking to Exchange4Media about the challenges for the streaming music market [‘audio OTT’ is the preferred phrase there] in India.
“OTT is our growth engine and data published by OTT players indicated a 40% growth rate on the 1st half of CY2020,” said Fernandes. “The problem lies in a very low subscriber base in India. It is estimated that the combined paid subscribers will be just about 1 million.”
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India may have around 100m users of music-streaming services
Last week saw the All About Music conference take place in India, with plenty of talk about how big the Indian music market is, and how large it might grow in the future. Journalist Amit Gurbaxani has published some of his key takeaways from the conference (as well as another event, Dialogue) which make for interesting reading.
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Indian ISPs ordered to block 104 infringing music sites
Indian industry body Indian Music Industry (IMI) has won a ruling in Calcutta’s High Court forcing 387 Indian ISPs to block access to 104 websites accused of music copyright infringement