This is a list of international and national copyright collection societies and companies, also called "

copyright collective Copyrights can either be licensed or assigned by the owner of the copyright. A copyright collective (also known as a copyright society, copyright collecting agency, licensing agency or copyright collecting society or collective management organiz ...

s".

Global

* Association of International Collective Management of Audiovisual Works (AGICOA) * Bureau International des Sociétés Gérant les Droits D'Enregistrement et les Reproduction Mecanique (BIEM) * Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) * International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) *

International Federation of the Phonographic Industry The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide. It is a non-profit members' organisation registered in Switzerland and founded in Italy in 19 ...

(IFPI) * Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)

Asia

Azerbaijan

* Copyright Agency of Azerbaijan Republic (Azərbaycan Respublikası Müəllif Hüquqları Agentliyi)

China

* Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC)

India

* Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation (IRRO)
Recorded Music Performance Ltd
(RMPL)
The Indian Performing Right Society Ltd
(IPRS)

Hong Kong

Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong The Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Ltd.(CASH) is a copyright society in Hong Kong established in 1977 which aims to administer and enforce collectively the rights of composers and authors of musical works subsisting under the copyright l ...

Ltd. (CASH)

Japan

; Music *

Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers The , often referred to as JASRAC, is a Japanese copyright collection society. It was founded in 1939 as a nonprofit organization, and is the largest musical copyright administration society in Japan. Overview JASRAC's main business activity i ...

(JASRAC) - Largest CMO in Japanese music industries. * NexTone Inc. - Merged between and e-License in 2016. * (MPN) ; Visual arts * (APG-Japan) - A member of the

International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers International is an adjective (also used as a noun) meaning "between nations". International may also refer to: Music Albums * ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011 * ''International'' (New Order album), 2002 * ''International'' (The T ...

. * (JASPAR) - Non-Japanese visual arts such as

Marc Chagall Marc Chagall; russian: link=no, Марк Заха́рович Шага́л ; be, Марк Захаравіч Шагал . (born Moishe Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with se ...

Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarr ...

and

Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...

. * (SPDA) - Handles works of

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

and

Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known prima ...

. Downsized after the JASPAR's spin-off in 2012. * (JPCA) - Represents ten photographic business associations such as

Japan Professional Photographers Society The is a Tokyo-based organization of photographers founded in 1950. Its logo reads “JPS”. It was formed from the combination of three earlier organizations, none more than two years old: Seinen Hōdō Shashin Kenkyūkai (青年報道写真研� ...

. ; Videos * (aRma) - Established by , , (meaning consortium of entertainment performers associations of Japan). * (PRE) - Collects licensing fees of TV programs. ; Publications * (JPCA) - Issued a strong statement against

Google Book Search Settlement Agreement ''Authors Guild v. Google'' 721 F.3d 132 (2d Cir. 2015) was a copyright case heard in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit between 2005 ...

. * (JRRC) - Mainly on behalf of paper-based publishers. * (RRAC)

Malaysia

Public Performance Malaysia (PPM) In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkei ...

- A not-for-profit Collective Management Organization (CMO), represents all eligible Malaysian recording companies and international recording companies who have exclusively licensed PPM members to control their rights in Malaysia.

Philippines

* Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (FILSCAP)

Russia

Russian Organization for Intellectual Property VOIS The Russian Organization for Intellectual Property VOIS ( rus, Всероссийская организация интеллектуальной собственности, ВОИС) is the collective management society for neighboring rights of ...

(Collective society related rights) *

Russian Organization for Multimedia and Digital Systems Russian Organization for Multimedia and Digital Systems (ROMS, Russian: РОМС), also known as Russian Multimedia and Internet Society is a Russian collective rights management organization. ROMS is a body designated by Russian law for collect ...

(ROMS, or POMC in Russian; aka Russian Multimedia and Internet Society) * Russian Author's Society (RAO)

South Korea

Korea Music Copyright Association The Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA) is a South Korean non-profit copyright collective for musical works, administering public performance and broadcasting rights, and mechanical recording and reproduction rights. Founded in 1964, it i ...

(KOMCA)

Africa

Ghana

Ghana Music Rights Organization Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO) is a royalties collection agency within Ghana, that represents the rights of music copyright holders. It was created under section 49 of the Copyright Law, Act 690 of 2005. The agency collects royalties for a ...

(GHAMRO)

Kenya

Music Copyright Society of Kenya The Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) is a copyright collection society for Kenya. It collects royalties on behalf of authors, composers, arrangers, and publishers of music. It collects royalties for public performances and mechanical repro ...

(MCSK)

South Africa

Southern African Music Rights Organisation SAMRO, the Southern African Music Rights Organisation, is a copyright asset management society. It was established by the South African Copyright Act, and aims to protect the intellectual property of music creators by licensing music users, col ...

(SAMRO)

Uganda

* Uganda Performing Right Society

Zambia

* Zambian music Copyright Protection Society (ZAMCOPS)

Europe

* Association of European Performers' Organisations AEPO-ARTIS

Basque Country

EKKI
institution for managing authors’ and other rights holders' rights

Belgium

* Société d'Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij (SABAM)

Bulgaria

Musicautor
is the organisation of authors and music publishers for managing of copyrights

Croatia

Croatian Composers' Society Croatian Composers' Society ( hr, Hrvatsko društvo skladatelja, HDS) is a professional organization of composers in Croatia. The society has more than 300 full and over 9000 associate members. The full membership is available to composers, musi ...

Cyprus

PRS for Music PRS for Music Limited (formerly The MCPS-PRS Alliance Limited) is a British music copyright collective, made up of two collection societies: the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) and the Performing Right Society (PRS). It undertakes ...

, formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance

Czech Republic

* DILIA (Divadelní, literární, audiovizuální agentura) * Ochranný svaz autorský * INTERGRAM (INTERGRAM, nezávislá společnost výkonných umělců a výrobců zvukových a zvukově-obrazových záznamů) * OOA-S (Ochranná organizace autorská – Sdružení autorů děl výtvarného umění, architektury a obrazové složky audiovizuálních děl) * OAZA (Ochranná asociace zvukařů – autorů)

Denmark

* *

KODA KODA (99.1 FM, "Sunny 99.1") is an American commercial adult contemporary-formatted radio station in Houston, Texas. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. Its studios and offices are located along the West Loop Freeway in Uptown Houston. KODA ...

Nordisk Copyright Bureau Nordisk Copyright Bureau (n©b) is a copyright collecting society which maintains Nordic and Baltic composers', writers' and producers' copyrights. NCB is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is owned by the collecting societies in the Nordic countr ...

Finland

Teosto Teosto (Finnish: Säveltäjäin Tekijänoikeustoimisto Teosto r.y.) is a non-profit performance rights organization that collects royalties on behalf of songwriters and composers in Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially ...

(authors and composers of musical works)

France

Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques SACD, founded as Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques ( en, Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers) on 7 March 1829, is a French collecting society, undertaking collective rights management for authors. The Society manages, promotes ...

(SACD) *

Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM) is a French professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the rights to the original songwriters, composers, and music publishers. Founded ...

(SACEM) * Société de la Propriété Artistique et des Dessins et Modèles (SPADEM), visual artists - defunct * Société des Auteurs Dans Les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques (ADAGP), visual artists *

Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique The National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (french: Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique; SNEP) is the inter-professional organisation that protects the interests of the French record industry. Originally known under the acronym ...

(SNEP), the National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing * Organisme de gestion collective des droits des artistes-interprètes (ADAMI), for performers * Société de Perception et de Distribution des Droits des Artistes-Interprètes (SPEDIDAM), for performers

Germany

Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte The Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA; "Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights") is a government-mandated collecting society and performance rights organization ...

(GEMA) * Gesellschaft zur Übernahme und Wahrnehmung von Filmaufführungsrechten mbH (GÜFA) * Cultural Commons Collecting Society SCE mbH (C3S) (planned) * Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst

Greece

* : Producers, Musicians, Singers (neighboring rights).

Republic of Ireland

Irish Music Rights Organisation The Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) is a national organisation that administers the performing right in copyright music in Ireland on behalf of its members (who are songwriters, composers and music publishers) and on behalf of the songwrite ...

(IMRO)

Italy

* Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (SIAE)

The Netherlands

Buma/Stemra BUMA/STEMRA are two private organisations in the Netherlands, the Buma Association ( Dutch: ''Vereniging Buma'') and the Stemra Foundation ( Dutch: ''Stichting Stemra'') that operate as one single company that acts as the Dutch collecting society fo ...

Norway

TONO TONO is a Norwegian corporation that administers copyrights for music in Norway. It is owned and governed by its members; composers, music publishers and text-writers. Through the managing agreement the originators give TONO an exclusive right to ...

(Copyright collective for authors and composers of musical works)

Poland

There are fourteen officially recognized copyright collection societies in Poland, among them: *

ZAiKS The Society of Authors ZAiKS ( pl, Stowarzyszenie Autorów ZAiKS, where the acronym stands for the Society′s original founding name, ''Society of Authors and Stage Composers'', pl, Związek Autorów i Kompozytorów Scenicznych or ''ZAiKS''), e ...

(Polish Society of Authors and Composers) *

ZPAV The Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry ( pl, Związek Producentów Audio-Video, ZPAV) is the trade organization that represents the interests of the music industry in Poland, and the Polish chapter of the International Federation of t ...

(Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry) * ZPAP ( Association of Polish Artists and Designers) * SARP ( Association of Polish Architects)

Portugal

Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores The Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (or SPA) translated as Portuguese Society of Authors is a limited liability cooperative, founded in Portugal in 1925 to manage copyrights. External links * Official Website References {{Reflist 1925 establ ...

(SPA)

Slovakia

* SOZA (Slovak Performing Rights Society)

Sweden

* Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå (Stim) (Swedish Performing Rights Society) * IFPI Sweden - International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (Swedish Society of Music Companies)

Switzerland

* Motion Picture Licensing Company Switzerland * * SUISA *

Ukraine

* Ukrainian Agency of Copyright and Related Rights (UACRR)

United Kingdom

* Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) * Artists' Collecting Society (ACS) *

Christian Copyright Licensing International Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) is a privately owned company that was founded in the US in 1988 by Howard Rachinski. CCLI was launched after being developed by Rachinski for 3½ years while he was a music minister at a large ch ...

, United Kingdom *

Copyright Licensing Agency The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) is a UK non-profit organisation established in 1983 to perform collective licensing on behalf of its members the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), Publishers' Licensing Services(PLS), the ...

(CLA) *

Design and Artists Copyright Society The Design and Artists Copyright Society is a British private limited company. It is a rights management organisation which collects and distributes royalties to visual artists. It was established in 1983 as the Design and Artists Copyright S ...

(DACS) *

Directors UK Directors UK (previously DPRS) is the professional association for British directors working in the audiovisual sector, with over 4,500 members. The organisation is both a collective management organisation for the distribution of secondary rights ...

(D-UK), formerly the Directors' and Producers' Rights Society (DPRS) *

Motion Picture Licensing Corporation Motion Picture Licensing Corporation ("MPLC") is a global, independent, non-theatrical copyright licensing company authorized by more than 1,000 motion picture and television copyright holders, such as studios and producers, to issue a public perf ...

(MPLC) *

Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society The Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) is an organisation that collects royalties and protects rights for music publisher, song writer and composer members, when their music is reproduced, in any format – including online, physical a ...

(MCPS) *

, formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance *

Phonographic Performance Limited Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) is a British music copyright collective. It is a private limited company that is registered in the UK. PPL was founded by Decca Records and EMI and incorporated on 12 May 1934, and undertakes collective ...

(PPL) * Publishers' Licensing Services (PLS)

Middle East

Israel

Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel The Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel ( he, אגודת קומפוזיטורים, ומחברים ומו"לים), known by the acronym ACUM ( he, אקו"ם), is a non-profit copyright collective which engages in collectiv ...

(ACUM) (performance rights society, representing authors, poets, lyricists, composers, arrangers, and music publishers) * Tali Rights, the Israeli Scriptwriters & Directors Collecting society

Turkey

* Müzik Yorumcuları Birliği (MÜYORBİR)

Lebanon

(SACEM)

North America

Canada

Access Copyright Access © or Access Copyright is the operating name of a Canada Business Corporations Act corporation whose official registration name is The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (formerly Cancopy). It is a not-for-profit copyright collective that c ...

– The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (formerly CanCopy) *

American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM/AFofM) is a 501(c)(5) trade union, labor union representing professional instrumental musicians in the United States and Canada. The AFM, which has its headquarters in New ...

(AFM) *

Canadian Artists' Representation Canadian Artists' Representation/ (CARFAC) is a non-profit corporation that serves as the national voice of Canada's professional visual artists. The mandate of CARFAC is to promote the visual arts in Canada, to promote a socio-economic climate ...

Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency The Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd. (CMRRA) is a music licensing agency based in Toronto, Ontario Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 202 ...

Ltd (CMRRA Ltd) *

Canadian Private Copying Collective The Canadian Private Copying Collective is a Canadian non-profit/non-government organization created in 1999 to collect and distribute private copying royalties in the music industry. The organization represents songwriters, recording artists, m ...

(CPCC) *

Playwrights Guild of Canada Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC) is a Canadian charity that works to advance the creative rights and interests of professional Canadian playwrights; promote Canadian plays, and foster community of writers. It was founded in 1972. History PGC has ...

(PGC) (formerly Playwrights Union of Canada) * Re:Sound Music Licensing Company *

(SACD) *

Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is a Canadian performance rights organization that represents the performing rights of more than 135,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. The organization collects ...

(SOCAN)

United States

* AFM &

SAG-AFTRA The Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA, stylized as SAG·AFTRA ) is an American labor union representing approximately 160,000 film and television actors, journalists, radio personalities, record ...

Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund * AllTrack (AllTrack Performing Rights), a US-based performance right organization *

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...

(ASCAP) *

Artists Rights Society Artists Rights Society (ARS) is a copyright, licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States. Founded in 1987, ARS is a member of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers and as such repr ...

* BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) *

Copyright Clearance Center Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a U.S. company based in Danvers, Massachusetts, (although it is incorporated in New York State), that provides collective copyright licensing services for corporate and academic users of copyrighted materials. ...

(CCC) *

Harry Fox Agency The Harry Fox Agency (HFA) is a provider of rights management and collector and distributor of mechanical license fees on behalf of music publishers in the United States. HFA has over 48,000 music publishing clients and issues the largest number ...

, a US-based music rights agency * Mechanical Licensing Collective (the MLC), the US based mechanical rights organization designated by the US Copyright Office. * Music Reports, a US-based music rights licensing company *

(MPLC) *

SESAC SESAC is a for-profit performance-rights organization in the United States. Founded in 1930 as the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers, it is the second-oldest performance-rights organization in the United States.

, a US-based performance rights association *

SoundExchange SoundExchange is an American non-profit collective rights management organization founded in 2003. It is the sole organization designated by the U.S. Congress to collect and distribute digital performance royalties for sound recordings. It pays ...

, a digital performance rights association (non-interactive radio) * Pro Music Rights, a US-based performance rights association

South America

Argentina

Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música (SADAIC) (Argentine Society of Music Authors and Composers) is the entity that gathers all musicians and authors of Argentina, and the Argentine performance rights organisation that keeps reg ...

(SADAIC)

Brazil

Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição The ''Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição'' (also known as ECAD; can be translated as ''Central Bureau for Collection and Distribution'') is the national copyright collection agency in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officia ...

(ECAD) *

Brasil

Oceania

Australasia

* Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) *

Australasian Performing Right Association APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwr ...

(APRA)

Australia

Australian Writers Guild The Australian Writers' Guild (AWG) is the professional association for Australian performance writers for film, television, radio, theatre, video and new media. The AWG was established in 1962. The AWG is a member of the Australian Council of ...

Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS) * Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) *

Phonographic Performance Company of Australia The Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) is a national, non-government, non-profit organisation that represents the interest of record companies and Australian recording artists. The PPCA is a partner organisation supporting So ...

(PPCA) * Screenrights: The Audio Visual Copyright Society (Audio-Visual Collecting Society Ltd)

References

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