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IPI stands for Interested Parties Information and is a unique number identifier for writers and publishers. IPIs are 11 digits in length and are used throughout the industry by Performance Rights Organizations (PRO) and Mechanical Rights Organizations (MRO). If you do not already have one for your publisher entity, CMRRA will request one from SUISA […]

If your IPI number is not 11 digits, please add leading zeros. For example, If your IPI number is 9 digits please add 2 zeroes to the beginning of the number (Ex. 123456789 becomes 00123456789).

Please use your main affiliated account in the header. (Publisher name, CMRRA account number, Publisher IPI #) If you do not have one main payee account and administer several individually affiliated CMRRA accounts, you will need to submit separate registration forms for each account.  If any questions please email [email protected].

When entering your CMRRA publisher account number select Role type ‘E’.  When entering songwriter information select Role ‘CA’ ‘C’ ‘A’, or ‘AR’.If you are a self-published songwriter, it is important to include both your CMRRA publisher account, as well as your songwriter information (name & IPI number). These are two separate contributors on two separate […]

 If you have a main CMRRA account which administers multiple publisher accounts, use two contributor rows. The original publisher is added to the first line (Role E). The administrator is added to the second line (Role AM).  

If you are registered with a PRO (SOCAN in Canada) they will have assigned you a songwriter IPI number. If not, you can still register works by using the songwriters name (without an IPI number). Once you have acquired a songwriter IPI number, you can write to [email protected] and we will be able to modify […]

It’s always helpful to include all writer contributor information. If you know and wish to add additional non-controlled writer contributors, please be sure to indicate they are not controlled (not administered or being claimed under your publisher entity) by marking an “N” in the controlled column.

No, please omit this information from the contributor details, rather than listing “Unknown Publisher”. 

Publisher/writer links are used to make clear which writer(s) a publisher is claiming. A link needs to be made between controlled publishers and controlled writers on each work using a number selected from the drop-down list. For example, if a publisher is claiming 100% on behalf of one songwriter contributor, select  “1” in the Pub/Writer […]

As a CMRRA publisher client, you will mark “Y” for the Canadian territory on the publisher line for each work. If you have affiliated with CMRRA for International Digital Collections for MLC registration, you should mark “Y” in the US territory as well.