UK Copyright Manager
Description
- Implementation of agreements and their relevant terms to the UMPG database plus tracking their lifecycles as terms evolve.
- Ensure the accurate ingestion of works data.
- Liaise with Business Affairs and A&R departments to ensure the accuracy of relevant contractual and client information.
- Communicate with clients to ensure that song deliveries and their corresponding metadata is complete and implemented and registered in a timely fashion.
- Collaborate on reviews of internal copyright processes to provide best in class service to UMPG clients.
- Provide regular updates to internal stakeholders on key clients.
- Participate in the delivery of our compliance control environment.
- Build strong relationships with our US-based Global Copyright team and our local offices internationally.
- Maintain UMPG copyright policies and procedural documentation.
- Attending to copyright queries raised by clients, affiliates, 3rd Parties and collection societies, which will involve analysing music publishing agreements and historical source documents.
Requirements
- You will have a minimum of 4 years of related work experience in a music publishing copyright role.
- An understanding of publishing contracts and copyright administration.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required.
- Experience using Microsoft Excel, Mail and Word.
- Understanding of music publishing income streams including collective management organisations, Performing Rights Organisations and Digital Service Providers.
- Strong organization skills, critical thinking, analytical abilities, and attention to detail are required.
- Ability to meet deadlines quickly and accurately while managing competing priorities is required.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Experience in people management.
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Universal Music Group
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Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. Universal Music Group's labels include A&M Records, Astralwerks, Blue Note Records, Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol Records, Capitol Records Nashville, Caroline, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, EMI Records Nashville, Fonovisa, Geffen Records, Harvest, Interscope Records, Island Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Universal Music Latino, Verve Label Group, Virgin Records, Virgin EMI Records, as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. UMG's catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). UMG also includes Universal Music Publishing Group, one of the industry's premier music publishing operations worldwide and Bravado, the leading provider of consumer, lifestyle and branding services to recording artists and entertainment brands around the world. Universal Music Group is a Vivendi company.