The I is for inept - Anonymous employee IFPI Employee Review

All of the other reviews here about the working environment, opportunity for advancement, and management are entirely accurate and are not worth repeating. The main problem with IFPI is that the organisation as a whole is wildly inept and does very little actual work on behalf of the recording industry. The real work for the industry happens at the national level whilst IFPI London's primary strength is meddling in the useful work happening in individual countries and adding unnecessary duplication and complexity whilst working to take credit for work they haven't done. The content protection and legal groups are particularly guilty of this and have been so badly run for years that it is baffling how they have managed to avoid scrutiny from the record companies who, instead of demanding results, accountability, and fiscal responsibility, blindly pour more money into the IFPI pit. Laughably, Universal Music hired the former, ineffectual head of IFPI's content protection group and is now reaping the benefits of this person's mismanagement skills. As IFPI does not have a national territory or constituency, its legal group is forever looking for ways to stay relevant by blundering into jurisdictions where they have no knowledge of local laws and then pretending to be the smartest pupil in class. At a time where the record companies have embraced virtual meetings and sharply curtailed business travel, IFPI spends lavishly on travel by sending employees to exotic, far off locations for events that are of marginal value. The record companies have not focused much attention on IFPI and that has allowed the organisation to operate almost entirely without oversight and accountability. IFPI is, at best, bumbling and at worst, incompetant.