The Job

The Copyright Team sits within Sentric’s Rights division. Its objectives are:

• To ensure accurate and timely registration of client’s copyrights around the world.
• To maximise revenue streams from all potential sources.
• To identify areas of potential income growth for client’s catalogues.
• To partner with internal teams to ensure client expectations are exceeded, ensuring significant retention and renewal levels are maintained.
• To ensure clients are at the centre of all activity, ensuring Sentric´s ethos of fairness, transparency and customer focus is evident at all times.

The Copyright Assistant will be responsible for supporting the Rights team in the administration of clients’ copyrights. They will interact with clients, collection societies and other interested parties to facilitate effective global administration of copyrights.

Your missions are :

Copyright Administration       

• Assist with answering basic client copyright queries from other publishers and Performing Rights Organisations.
• Assist with resolving copyright conflicts/counterclaims.
• Assist with termination of copyright claims
• Assist with data enrichment in system.
• Assist wider team with Copyright queries.

Rights Management & Client Management Support
 

• Assist with special projects initiated by the wider Rights team division, Client Managers and Director of Rights, ensuring a qualitative and timely resolution of assigned project tasks.
• Assist Rights team with ad hoc duties to cover holiday periods etc.

The Job

Job title: Legal Director, India & South Asia

Employment contract: Permanent

Location: Mumbai

Missions:

You will be in charge of managing the legal matters of the affiliated companies of the Believe Group in India, mostly in contract and IP law. You will ensure the Group’s templates of contract and the Group’s processes are applied.

In practical terms, your tasks and responsibilities shall be:

• Review and implement the guidelines, processes and policies decided by the Group, as adapted if needed to comply with the Indian local laws, and control they are applied;
• Propose for improvements of such guidelines, policies and process, to ensure they always comply with legal requirements;
• Draft and negotiate contracts with local customers (artists and music labels) or providers, in accordance with the Group guidelines. The main contracts are about the following areas: Copyright (including recording rights and publishing rights and any related grand of rights), Music and video digital distribution, Services designed for music artists, Live, Advertising, Collective right societies, Inter Company, Service Provider, Lease, Non-Disclosure Agreements;

• Manage
  • corporate law matters, including M&A transactions, corporate “housekeeping” and legal finance aspects
  • Data protection matters (data protection structures and operational matters)
  • Compliance topics including training and structures as well as handling of compliance (related) cases

• Assist on corporate life of the affiliated companies of the Group located in India and on local corporate operations;
• Legal monitoring on Indian law, interface of the Group for any matter related to Indian law and risk prevention.
• Review and advice on HR related queries, matters and legal aspects
• Research and prepare legal opinions on various topics
• Resolve day to day legal queries raised by multiple stakeholders of the Group
• Working closing with the legal counsels on providing briefings, coordinating on legal matters and assisting with filling of matters.

In this framework, you will report into the Managing Director – Operations in India. You will work on a day-to-day basis with people located in India and with the Central Legal Department located in France.

You will have a proactive approach and will pay constant attention to support the needs and deployment of the Group, while you will protect its interests. The working environment is Indian and international, with a huge growth and ongoing restructuring.

You are known for your leadership and your organizational skills. You are thorough, autonomous and have good adaptation skills. You have a proven aptitude for management and reporting and are used to working with Groups headquartered out of India. Your inter-personal skills enable you to communicate with many persons, at different levels of the Group in India and abroad.

Profile:

• Work experience: minimum 12 years & preferred 14 years as a lawyer in an international Group, with a large background on entertainment and music. You are experienced on contract processing and deployment and control of Group processes.
• Handled M&A related aspects in your experience.
• Fluent English is essential (written and spoken), with legal practice. English is the main language used within the Group.
• Preferable experience in company secretarial matters (board management & compliance).

Apply: If you think the job is made for you, please email your resume at chandani.veera@believe.com or reach out to us at +91 9987373636.

The Job

We are seeking a talented and enthusiastic paralegal with a passion for music law to join our Legal & Business Affairs Team in Liverpool. You will report directly to the Head of Legal & Business Affairs and work closely with all teams within the business. This role offers opportunities for growth and provides a fantastic foundation for a career in the music industry.

The ideal candidate will have a background in intellectual property, specifically focusing on music rights, licensing, and contract management. This role involves providing comprehensive administrative and legal support, including research, basic drafting, and managing various legal documents to ensure compliance and protection of our music catalogue. Additionally, the role requires project management, building and optimizing processes, coordinating with various stakeholders to support business operations, and handling a range of administrative tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Provide administrative and legal support, including research, basic drafting, and document management.
• Manage and update contract templates to reflect current industry standards and legal requirements.
• Assist in project management, including planning, executing, and finalizing projects within set deadlines.
• Build and optimize processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness within the legal team.
• Engage with internal stakeholders to understand and support business processes and goals.
• Coordinate and manage relationships with artists, industry professionals, and internal/external stakeholders.
• Prepare and process legal documents and correspondence.
• Maintain and update records to ensure they are accurate and compliant with regulations.

The Job

 Reporting to:  Head of Rights 

Department Objectives 

The Revenue Optimisation team sits within Sentric’s Rights division. Its objectives are: 

• To maximise revenue streams from all potential sources. 

• To identify areas of potential income growth for client’s catalogues. 

• To partner with internal teams to ensure client expectations are exceeded, ensuring significant retention and renewal levels are maintained. 

• To ensure clients are at the centre of all activity, ensuring Sentric’s ethos of fairness, transparency and customer focus is evident at all times. 

Job Summary 

The Manager: Revenue Optimisation will lead on ensuring all opportunities to fully maximise potential sources of publishing related income are identified and maximised. They will use their knowledge of additional royalty generating opportunities to give direction on areas of focus for the Live Claims and Income Tracking teams. They will oversee the work of the audit team (in collaboration with the Copyright Assurance Officer and Insights Team), using data analysis to identify any actions required to ensure everything is in place to allow for maximum revenue optimisation.   

Job Description 

Team Management 

• Liaise with Team Leaders to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Live Claims, Audit & Activity Tracking teams, using data and experience to identify key areas of focus. 

• Continually assess the operations of the Live Claims, Audit & Activity Tracking teams and work with management to implement improvements. 

• Set and ensure KPIs are being met both internally and across collection network. 

• Work with Head of Rights to ensure the continual development of Copyright team skills.  

Tracking 

• Exploring all avenues of Revenue Optimisation to ensure our clients catalogues are returning maximum value. 

• Working with the tracking team to give direction on focus for generating royalties and reviewing results to report back to business. 

• Identifying and assessing new opportunities for revenue maximisation 

Live Claims 

• Working with team leader to ensure efficient processing of live claims. 

• Identifying and assessing potential value and opportunity of live sector 

• Working with internal stakeholders to develop software systems. 

Audit 

• Provide direction on focus of audit activity. 

• Working across teams with result of audit information to ensure actions are taken to optimise revenue. 

• Work with Insights, Audit & Copyright Officer Assurance Officer to provide reports to Director of Rights on performance of CMO’s in relation to catalogue registrations.