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IPRS and PPL India explained: who collects for your song, who collects for your recording, and what changed in 2025
India splits music licensing between the song and the recording. IPRS speaks for composers, lyricists and publishers; PPL India licenses sound recordings assigned to it by labels. A 2025 Delhi High Court ruling questioned how PPL may license without being a registered copyright society. This guide explains the two sides and what an independent artist should do, using the Copyright Act text and court records read on 25 Oct 2026.
25 Oct 2026Workflows
Performing rights organisations explained: what ASCAP, BMI, PRS, GEMA and IPRS collect, and what they leave on the table
A performing rights organisation (PRO) licenses the public performance of songs and pays the writers and publishers. Here is what that covers, how joining works at the big societies in the US, UK, Germany and India, and the income streams a PRO will never collect for you.
24 Oct 2026Workflows
Producing Indian indie music on a budget in 2026: the tools, and what they cost in rupees
You can make and release a finished Indian indie or film-style track for well under the price of one good microphone, if you spend in the right order. Here is a costed stack (DAW, synths, Indian instruments, distribution) with prices read from each seller's own page on 24 Oct 2026, and where the money is better kept.
24 Oct 2026Workflows
Who owns an AI-assisted song in India? Copyright, personality rights and the one court order so far
Indian law has a clause for computer-generated works, but the first court to look at a Suno-made song was not convinced it is protected at all. Here is how ownership splits between lyrics, composition, recording and voice, what the Delhi High Court actually ordered on 25 Mar 2026, and what to do before you release.
24 Oct 2026Workflows
India's AI-music rules: courts protect famous singers' voices while the copyright plan stalls
Bombay High Court orders have shielded Arijit Singh and Asha Bhosle from AI voice clones, but the government committee drafting India's AI-copyright rules has not met since June, and its plan would let AI firms train on recordings without permission. Famous voices have a remedy; everyone else is waiting.
22 Oct 2026Artist rightsvia Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)

IPRS and PPL India explained: who collects for your song, who collects for your recording, and what changed in 2025

Performing rights organisations explained: what ASCAP, BMI, PRS, GEMA and IPRS collect, and what they leave on the table

Producing Indian indie music on a budget in 2026: the tools, and what they cost in rupees

Who owns an AI-assisted song in India? Copyright, personality rights and the one court order so far

India's AI-music rules: courts protect famous singers' voices while the copyright plan stalls

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