Warrick Percy
CAPASSO Licensing Manager
Johannesburg Area, South Africa
Warrick Percy is a musician, student, lecturer, consultant and licensing manager at the mechanical rights organization, CAPASSO. During his time at CAPASSO, he has secured multi-territorial licences with many major digital, in-store and broadcasting services such as iTunes, Deezer, Apple Music, Spotify, Google Play, Kwese, Multichoice and Youtube. His work at CAPASSO has proved to be extremely influential with respect to the collection, administration and distribution of royalties across the African continent. Warrick’s work has directly contributed to the distribution of over 90 million rand to composers, publishers and affiliated societies respectively, since CAPASSO’s inception in July 2014. In addition to his position at CAPASSO, he lectures the part-time Music Business Masterclass course at The Academy of Sound Engineering. This is done as part of his innate desire to educate and better equip composers, artists and other industry players. His passion and drive for entertainment, copyright law and business principles appear to be boundless. Warrick is studying part-time towards his LLB, specializing in copyright, trademark and intellectual property.