The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry acts on the behalf of the international recording industry. This large organisation acts for 1,500 record producers and distributors in 76 countries worldwide.
Overview
The IFPI Secretariat is responsible for co-ordinating international strategies in the key areas of the organisation's work, such as anti-piracy enforcement, technology, legal strategies, litigation and public relations. It also lobbies governments and has representation in international organisations.
Based in London with links to regional offices in Brussels, Hong Kong, Miami, Moscow, etc. the Secretariat is the recording industry's most authoritative source of market research and information, providing a comprehensive range of global industry statistics.
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The Requirements
The IFPI Anti-Piracy Enforcement department required internal systems that would enable them to achieve several goals:
- Dissemination of piracy seizure information to a wide global user base.
- Enable regional offices to coordinate and collaborate on piracy seizures
The Solution
Pirate Products Database
This system enabled the IFPI to coordinate global seizures of pirate products. Alchemy created a web enabled database system that allowed users to submit details of any piracy seizures they made including imagery of the actual product information itself. All this data was then stored on a central database.
Alchemy created a web interface to this information, to enable users to search on over 30 different fields to highlight matches in pirated material. Using this information the users could then look for areas of commonality within different seizures and begin to link them together so that they could build stronger cases against offending CD plants. The system also features an export facility to enable users to export any records in the database into a file which can then be imported into Excel.
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