International Copyright Enterprise (ICE) Services, the leading integrated hub for music licensing, processing, and rights management, today announced it has joined the Music Fights Fraud Alliance (MFFA), reinforcing its commitment to protecting creators and the integrity of music data.
Formed in 2023, the MFFA is a global alliance bringing together stakeholders from across the music industry to coordinate efforts to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud. ICE Services joins more than 35 members committed to building a fairer and more transparent digital music economy, including Collective Management Organisations (CMOs), Digital Service Providers (DSPs), distributors, and technology providers.
“We are delighted to join the MFFA and further our continuing commitment to fraud identification and prevention,” said Rachael Naylor, COO of ICE Services. “Collaboration is the foundation of everything we do at ICE Services, and our values align closely with the MFFA’s mission of collectively working towards a global music market that is fair for all. A complex issue like streaming fraud can only be addressed through alliance, and we welcome the opportunity to come together with fellow stakeholders to share knowledge and partner on initiatives that will benefit the wider industry.”
Michael Lewan, Executive Director of the Music Fights Fraud Alliance, said, “As MFFA continues to grow and expand to address the ever-evolving world of fraud and deception in streaming music, we are so pleased to join forces with ICE Services. ICE Services embodies the power of industry collaboration. Their commitment to transparency and proven track record will bring invaluable perspective and data-driven solutions to our global mission.”
Joining the MFFA is an important step in ICE Services’ ongoing efforts to combat fraud, which have always had a key focus on collaboration. It works to provide solutions for industry-wide issues by developing projects like the Recording Data Quality Issue initiative, which pinpoints and assesses outliers across the use of recordings data in musical work copyright registrations.
Through this initiative, ICE Services’ Solutions and Support Director Graham Edwards leads a working group with its copyright customers that meets on a fortnightly basis to share conflict lists, data points, and analysis, facilitating timely action against suspicious or confirmed as false works. ICE Services regularly presents key learnings at wider industry forums, contributes to the development of best practice frameworks, and assists other organisations with establishing their own accuracy and quality assessment processes, and will continue efforts to increase awareness and information sharing on data integrity issues through its work in the MFFA.
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About ICE Services
ICE Services is a music technology company built by rightsholders, for rightsholders. Through its innovative suite of licensing, processing, and copyright services, it ensures accurate, transparent royalty payments to creators and simplifies licensing for DSPs. Serving over 330,000 rightsholders and leveraging a copyright database comprising 55 million musical works, ICE Services’ operations touch 250+ territories to distribute more than €1bn in royalties per year, with a total of over €5bn paid to date. www.iceservices.com
About Music Fights Fraud Alliance
Music Fights Fraud Alliance is a global and united front formed to combat fraud across the music industry. Our mission is to ensure that the global music market is fair and that all members actively contribute to solutions intended to balance the equity of its operations. As an alliance, our members hope to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud, and enforce anti-fraud measures, thereby moving closer to an industry where fraud has no place.
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