The Alliance for change in Ghana music, a group of Ghanaian musicians who have come together to help musicians enjoy their copyrights in royalties have introduced the International Standard Recording Code (ISRC).
This system is aimed at making musicians to uniquely identify their sound recordings and music videos.
The coding system which operates like the science of fingerprint system gives the music uploaded a unique code that is solely for the creator of the content.
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The digital fingerprint contains four parts which must be carefully entered by the creator to avoid the mistake of giving a wrong identity. These parts are the country code, First registrants code, Year of reference and Track designation code.
A mistake in this arrangement might end up getting the copyright to another person who will get to reap all the benefits from it.
A successful generation of the code becomes synonymous to the DNA of the song which uniquely identifies the creator to whom all revenues accrued from streaming and sales goes to.
The ISRC is independent from any particular music streaming platform. It is generated uniquely after which songs can be uploaded on any music streaming platform.
About Alliance for Change in Ghana Music
The Alliance is a pressure group aimed at fighting for a positive change and a proper restructuring of the Ghana music industry, in order to attract global and local investment, by creating a sustainable music business economy.
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They seek to among other things seek modern ways of generating income for the music industry and Ghana as a whole through the creative arts, make the Ghana music industry attractive for investors again and recreate an industry which will significantly contribute to the economy of Ghana by restructuring how music business is done in Ghana. A s key function, they also seek to fully digitize the royalty collection system in Ghana and set standard royalty rates per play by radio and television stations; something the International Standard Recording Code (ICRS) has come to help with.
The Alliance was formed by Reggie Zippy of Reggie and Bollie fame.
