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You need to be an active member (Early Career, Standard or Professional) to enter the Rising Star Award with Amazon Music, which is presented each year at The Ivors. You do not need to be a member to enter any of our other award categories. Ivors Academy members can receive free or discounted entry. Please […]
The overriding criteria for Ivor Novello Award consideration is that the songwriter or composer is a British or Irish national. For some categories residency also counts and in these instances you need to have been ordinarily resident in the UK during the entire award year. This is because a founding principal of the award was […]
The Academy presents a second awards ceremony, The Ivors Classical Awards, where Ivor Novello Awards celebrate classical composition and sound art. Entries for this ceremony open in May. To ensure your music receives appropriate peer review please wait and enter your music into this ceremony instead.
The Ivors is when Ivor Novello Awards are presented to celebrate British and Irish written songs and original music composed for feature films, video games and television broadcasts.
Membership of the Academy works on an annual basis. You can pay your annual membership fee over instalments but there will always be an annual renewal date when your membership will either automatically renew or you will need to pay for another year’s membership, depending on the option you have chosen. You will be notified 1 […]
Joint membership is available for Direct Debit and Stripe Credit Card payments but excludes PRS for Music membership payments. Joint membership is not available in conjunction with any other discount or offer. Early Career memberships are excluded from the joint membership offer. Joint membership is only available on renewal of your current IA membership or […]
An Ivor Novello Award is an award which recognises creative excellence in contemporary songwriting and composition. At its core is the principal of peer recognition as award categories are decided by music creators working in the particular award category’s field. First presented in 1956 an Ivor Novello Award is named in honour of Ivor Novello, […]
Your membership starts from the date we receive your first payment. If you pay by debit or credit card we will receive your payment immediately and you will receive a welcome email.. If you pay by Direct Debit, it takes a little longer before we receive your payment and before your membership becomes active. If […]
Alongside the funds, Copydan provides The Ivors Academy with a breakdown of the royalties due to rightsholders. Sometimes this information specifies for which works and sometimes only the rightsholder. We cross-reference this information against various databases – primarily our membership database and with PRS for Music. We also carry out desk research to identify rightsholders, […]
Depending on how you manage your own accounting and tax returns, you may need to raise an invoice to account for the income you’ve received for your Copydan royalties. In the first instance, please contact your accountant for advice on this if you have one. If you need to raise an invoice for VAT purposes, […]
The Ivors Academy processes distributions in two phases, one in July of the same year of receipt from Copydan and another in January of the following year if there are still balances to pay out.
It is The Ivors Academy’s responsibility to take all reasonable endeavours to contact the rightsholders who are due royalties payments in order to ensure their royalties are paid to them. We report details of these efforts back to Copydan; if after three years we are unable to contact the recipients then funds due to them […]
The Ivors Academy applies an administration fee to all the Copydan royalties payments it makes to rightsholders. For rightsholders who are not members of The Ivors Academy, this administration fee is 10%. For rightsholders who are members of The Ivors Academy, this administration fee is reduced to 8%. This administration fee covers our expenses to […]
Royalties are due to songwriters and composers whose works have been reproduced in Denmark by educational institutions and private and public businesses since 2015. Copydan supply The Ivors Academy with this information alongside the funds based on their own methods of measuring and allocating royalties to rightsholders. These rightsholders may or may not be members […]
Copydan Writing (Copydan) is a collection management organisation that specialises in text and sheet music. They negotiate agreements regarding copying with educational institutions and private and public businesses. These agreements with Copydan allow their customers to legally copy text and sheet music material, ensuring that rights holders receive remuneration for the copies made. As this […]
On our Contact Us page, you’ll find all the details to contact us by email, phone or post. If you have questions about joining please contact our membership team: membership@ivorsacademy.com
The Ivors Academy office is at 1 Upper James Street, London, W1F 9DE.
The Ivors Academy is the UK’s professional association for songwriters and composers. Founded in 1944, we champion, support and promote songwriters and composers from every genre, discipline and background. Find out more about us.
We campaign to protect and advance our members’ rights, lobbying Governments, the music industry and other influential decision-makers. Find out what we are campaigning for.
Central to what makes it so special, an Ivor Novello is a peer-recognition award at heart. The nominated award categories are judged by individual panels of established classical composers, sound artists and practitioners within contemporary new music. The gift of the Academy awards are chosen by the Awards Committee, a sub-committee of The Ivors Academy […]
