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Music Giant T-Series Joins Indian Performing Right Society, Boosting Creators’ Benefits (EXCLUSIVE)
Naman Ramachandran Indian music giant Super Cassettes Industries, popularly known as “T-Series” after its label, has joined the Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS), becoming the last music major in the country to do so.T-Series joins the existing IPRS members who include Sony Music Entertainment India, Saregama India, Universal Music Publishing, Times Music and Aditya Music.T-Series, also a leading film producer, operates a vast music library of 200,000 titles, including more than 50,000 music videos, and 15,000 hours of music across 15 Indian languages.The deal is significant for India’s best-known authors, composers, and music publishers who are among the 5,000 IPRS members as their works will now be legally licensed.