Global Copyright Administrator

Global Copyright Administrator

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.

We are looking for an organised, motivated and enthusiastic administrator to join the Global Copyright team. You will play an important role in the worldwide registration of our songwriter copyright data and provide essential support to our rights holders in delivering the very best in global administration services. Working closely with local offices around the world, this global role focuses on ensuring our rights holders’ copyright data is correctly registered at CMO’s and DSP’s internationally and that any issues that arise are resolved.

We believe that people are at the core of what we do and we are committed to professional development – at WCM you will have the opportunity to participate in a host of training activities, develop your skills and further your learning about music publishing. This is a fantastic opportunity for a detail‑oriented individual with an interest in music publishing administration and project work who shares our passion for songwriters.

• Maintain accurate registrations of WCM’s catalogue worldwide. Assist in the delivery of timely and accurate copyright data to CMOs, sub‑publishers, online processing partners and third‑party licensees, ensuring weekly files are provided to 50+ recipients.
• Identify and troubleshoot problems that may arise throughout the copyright registration process, including the resolution of conflicts and disputes, as well as validation and rejection errors at work and agreement level.
• Deliver agreement registrations internationally.
• Perform routine checks on high‑profile works and catalogues registered with CMOs, identify problems and work with local affiliates to resolve.
• Gather statistics and analyse results in order to assist global affiliates with achieving KPI targets.
• Work internationally by responding to queries from affiliate offices, sub‑publishers and societies to ensure timely distribution of royalties to our writers/clients.
• Assist with internal testing and implementation of industry standard formats and processes, including CWR, CAF, IAS and IRS.
• Collaborate with colleagues to improve efficiencies across all areas of administration.
• Carry out testing of new system enhancements and contribute to the ongoing development of copyright and royalty system, client portal and royalty app.
• Produce and maintain internal process documentation.
• Attend and represent the Global Copyright team in regular meetings with our global affiliate offices.
• Work interdepartmentally, collaborating with colleagues in different departments to streamline and improve overall administration processes.
• Be responsible for ad‑hoc…