The Indian Performing Right Society Ltd. (IPRS) as you see it today is not an overnight creation. The Society has evolved and emerged through good and rough weather during the past 35 years. It is a history of a journey full of pains, struggle, frustrations but ultimately some achievement at last.

The task was very difficult and tedious because the copyright situation in the country was not clear. There was confusion over ownership rights as also acute lack of knowledge and information amongst not only the users of Copyright material but also amongst the owners themselves. The IPRS members themselves were not too interested in the affair of the society, simply because they, like the common man of the country, were not aware of the importance of the copyright law and had no idea what this business was all about. Words like copyright ownership, Performing Right and license fees were alien not only to the common public but also to them.IPRS thus waged through these difficult times and situations and managed to keep the fight for a better Copyright environment and awareness in the country.

It was Mr. M. B. Srinivasan, a renowned Composer of South India and an active Trade Unionist who mobilized the Members of the society and persuaded them to take full control of management of the Society, in this struggle he was ably supported by Mr. Naqsh Lyallpuri.In 1990’s the society underwent a change in directions when it appointed young professionals to run the society, thereby enthusing new blood into the society.