Warner Music Group
Copyright Analyst (12 month FTC)
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At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:
Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.
WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.
Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.
Job Title: Copyright Analyst (12 month FTC)
A little bit about our team:
The EMEA SSC Royalty & Copyright team is the engine that ensures WMG’s incredible talent gets paid accurately and on time. Working closely with A&R, Legal, and Finance, we manage the end-to-end statement and payment process for artists, producers, mixers, and third parties, including accurately accounting for our global copyright liabilities to societies like MCPS and SDRM. We are directly connected to the lifecycle of every song, balancing intricate rights management with financial precision to turn creative hard work into tangible rewards.
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Your role:
Reporting to the Head of UK & International Royalties, you will take ownership of our quarterly and bi-annual European society registration cycles, ensuring strict compliance with regional requirements. Your core focus will be maintaining data integrity through high-volume file reformatting, manual cleanup, and verifying label copy to guarantee accurate registrations for societies like MCPS and SDRM. Working closely with the UK Royalties and Copyright teams, you will help document regional nuances and build out a sustainable knowledge base.
Here you’ll get to:
- Manage Registration Cycles: Execute quarterly and bi-annual European society registration filings, ensuring strict compliance with varying regional legal and deadline requirements.
- Drive Data Quality: Perform manual data cleanup where needed and file reformatting to meet strict society acceptance criteria and prevent registration errors.
- Verify Asset Details: Check and verify label copy and affiliate reporting to guarantee absolute accuracy before submissions are finalised.
- Map Regional Nuances: Collaborate with the internal and external Copyright teams to identify, analyze, and document specific regional collection society requirements.
- Build the Knowledge Base: Contribute to creating a sustainable, standardised repository of copyright processes and regional compliance rules.
- Improve System Workflows: Identify and report recurring data gaps and friction points during the filing process to help inform future system and process enhancements.
About you:
- You have strong analytical skills, with the ability to apply them calmly under pressure and manage your time effectively to hit strict society deadlines.
- You are a detail-oriented professional capable of managing high release volumes while navigating complex, territory-specific compliance rules.
- You have proficiency in data manipulation (such as Excel/Sheets) and a willingness to adapt to new automated system workflows.
- You enjoy looking for process improvements and identifying efficiencies with a view to achieving best working practices for the team.
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We’d love it if you also had:
- A background in copyright administration, mechanical licensing, or international royalties
- Knowledge of industry copyright data formats
As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.
Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.
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WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.
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