Licensing & Rights Management

Here is how this works in practice. Irish licensing and rights running operates inside one of the world's most active music-rights economies. IMRO (Irish Music Rights Org) alone administers performing-rights royalties for over thirteen thousand members across the Chieftains, Christy Moore. Dolores Keane. The Dubliners, Riverdance, U2, the Cranberries, Sinéad O'Connor, Hozier, Niall Horan, Westlife, Boyzone, Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan, the Cranberries, Glen Hansard (Once 2007 Best First Song Oscar for Falling Slowly), and Sigur Rós's Irish collaborators. Our rights team handles IMRO performing-rights clearances, MCPSI (Mechanical Copyright Protection Society Ireland) reproduction licences. RAAP (Recorded Artists Actors Performers) performer royalty forms.

Here is the short of it. SCAPR global performer royalty pipelines, and the bilateral IMRO/PRS for Music structure for cross-border shoots. Chain-of-title work for Section 481 qualifying shoots sits alongside this — each script, source novel, score commission, library music cue, and stock-footage clip needs logged chain-of-title to satisfy Revenue Commissioners drawdown audits.

Here is the breakdown. Co-production rights structuring is where Ireland punches well above its weight. Ireland's bilateral co-production treaties with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, France, Italy. Germany. The UK. The European Convention on Cinematographic Co-production. The MEDIA Creative Europe framework give producers stackable rights and revenue-share architectures that few other jurisdictions can match. Our team papers area grants, holdbacks, festival windows, MEDIA Creative Europe sales-agent obligations, and the IFTA (Irish Film and Television Academy) and IFTN (Irish Film and Television Network) submission forms for award eligibility.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Cross-border shoots between Republic and Northern Ireland (the Game of Thrones model. Vikings/Vikings: Valhalla model, or the integrated The Wonder/Banshees model) need parallel Section 481 and HMRC UK AVEC chain-of-title certification, NI Protocol customs forms, and EUR/GBP collection structures. We set up anti-piracy DRM tracking through INDICAM, IFLA, and Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), and we deliver an average 30% revenue increase through area-specific window tuning and Irish-language window carve-outs for TG4 and BBC Alba.