ICE Services, founded in 2010, simplifies the complexities of the music royalty chain through an innovative suite of licensing, processing, and copyright services. The company enables collection societies and music publishers to accurately compensate songwriters when their work is used internationally. Its operations span 250+ territories, and it serves more than 330,000 rightsholders with a copyright database of over 55 million musical works.
The company's core product, the ICE Core licence, provides market-leading licensing representation for music services, incorporating repertoire from major collection societies. ICE is a purpose-driven organization built by rightsholders, for rightsholders, with a mission to ensure songwriters are paid for their work. Its scale is significant: the company distributes more than €1 billion in royalties annually, with total royalties paid since its first distribution in 2016 exceeding €5 billion.
Headquartered across offices in London, Berlin, and Stockholm, ICE operates within the music licensing and copyright management sectors. The company's infrastructure underpins a critical part of the global digital music ecosystem, processing data to connect the use of music with the compensation owed to its creators.
