Licensing & Rights Management

Here is how this works in practice. Rights clearance in Peru runs through Decreto Legislativo 822 — the Peruvian Copyright Law — administered by INDECOPI, with music rights cleared through APDAYC (Asociación Peruana de Autores y Compositores) and Unión Peruana de Productores Fonográficos for master and mechanical use.

Here is the short of it. The legal landscape touches more than music: trademarks registered with INDECOPI, the moral rights of Peruvian authors (which under Decreto Legislativo 822 cannot be waived even by contract), location releases at heritage sites where INC retains image rights, and the increasingly tricky domain of Quechua and Aymara cultural expression where collective community consent matters as much as any individual signature. Our licensing team works from Lima with established legal partners across the IP bar, plus regional fixers in Cusco and Arequipa who can negotiate the harder-to-reach community rights questions on Sacred Valley and Lake Titicaca shoots before they become post-prod blockers.

Here is the breakdown. Our process starts with a rights audit against your script, score, and shot breakdown — identifying every music cue, archive clip, trademark, and image that needs clearance, and mapping each to the right Peruvian collecting society, rights holder, or community body. APDAYC sync and performance licenses are negotiated in soles or USD depending on the deal, with mechanical and master rights handled through the fitting fonograma producers. For archive material from RTV Perú, IRTP, or Filmoteca PUCP, we set up access and licensing through the body-level channels that hold the masters.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Talent likeness and image-release work runs through ANACTP guidelines for actors and through bespoke contracts for Indigenous communities where photo-and-recording consent is collective. The result is a clean chain of title that satisfies global distributors, OTT sites, and broadcast acquisitions while remaining compliant with Peruvian copyright law and the Ibermedia co-production framework where it applies.