Storm in a copyright teacup

The Indian Performing Right Society is the world’s fastest-growing copyright society. It’s also suffering penny-pinching streaming platforms, and a mutiny.

Before you reach the end of this sentence, go to the music streaming platform of your choice, tap on your last five tracks, and fish for the song credits.

Here’s what it looks like on Spotify:

…and here’s what it looks like on YouTube:

YouTube, for lack of a better term, is all over the place. Sometimes you see songwriting credits, sometimes you don’t. But the takeaway here is that it takes a battalion to make a song. The artist or singer isn’t always the writer or composer, which is why you have music or performance rights societies to give …