List of copyright collection societies

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

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 (IFPI)
• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)

Asia

Azerbaijan

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

Brunei

• Bruneian Authors & Composers (BEAT) Berhad

China

• Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC)

India

• Cinefil Producers Performance Limited
• Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation (IRRO)
• Recorded Music Performance Ltd (RMPL)
• Indian Performing Right Society Ltd (IPRS)
• Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL India)

Indonesia

• Wahana Musik Indonesia (WAMI)

Hong Kong

• Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Ltd. (CASH)

Japan

Music

• Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) - Largest CMO in Japanese music industries.
• NexTone Inc. - Merged between Japan Rights Clearance Inc.  [ ja ] and e-License in 2016.
• Music People's Nest  [ ja ] (MPN)

Visual arts

• Japan Art, Photograph and Graphic Art Copyright Organization  [ ja ] (APG-Japan) - A member of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers.
• Japanese Society for Protecting Artists' Rights  [ ja ] (JASPAR) - Non-Japanese visual arts such as Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí and Le Corbusier.
• Société pour la Protection des Droits Artistiques  [ ja ] (SPDA) - Handles works of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Downsized after the JASPAR's spin-off in 2012.
• Japan Photographic Copyright Association  [ ja ] (JPCA) - Represents ten photographic business associations such as Japan Professional Photographers Society.

Videos

• audiovisual Rights management association  [ ja ] (aRma) - Established by Japan Association of Music Enterprises  [ ja ], Federation of Music Producers Japan  [ ja ], Geidankyo  [ ja ] (meaning consortium of entertainment performers associations of Japan).
• Performers' Rights Entrustment  [ ja ] (PRE) - Collects licensing fees of TV programs.

Publications

• Japan Publishing Copyright Association  [ ja ] (JPCA) - Issued a strong statement against Google Book Search Settlement Agreement.
• Japan Reproduction Rights Center  [ ja ] (JRRC) - Mainly on behalf of paper-based publishers.
• Rental Rights Administration Center for Publications  [ ja ] (RRAC)

Malaysia

• Public Performance Malaysia (PPM) - 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 (Collective society related rights)
• Russian Organization for Multimedia and Digital Systems (ROMS, or POMC in Russian; aka Russian Multimedia and Internet Society)
• Russian Author's Society (RAO)

South Korea

• Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA) ^[1]

Thailand

• Music Copyright Thailand (MCT)

Vietnam

• Vietnam Center for Protection of Music Copyright (VCPMC)

Africa

Ghana

• Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO)

Kenya

• Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK)

South Africa

• Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO)

Uganda

• Uganda Performing Right Society

Zambia

• Zambian music Copyright Protection Society (ZAMCOPS)

Europe

• Association of European Performers' Organisations AEPO-ARTIS

Austria

• Autoren, Komponisten und Musikverleger Genossenschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (AKM) – (English: Authors, Composers and Music Publishers Registered Cooperative with Limited Liability)

Basque Country (Spain)

• Euskal Egileen Eskubideen Kudeaketa Elkartea (EKKI) – (English: Basque Workers' Rights Management Association)

Belgium

• Société d'Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij (SABAM) – (English: Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers)

Bulgaria

• Музикаутор (MUSICAUTOR) – (English: Bulgarian Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers)

Croatia

• Hrvatsko društvo skladatelja (HDS) – (English: Croatian Composers' Society)

Cyprus

• PRS for Music (PRS) – formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance

Czech Republic

• Divadelní, literární, audiovizuální agentura (DILIA) – (English: Theatre, Literary and Audiovisual Agency)
• Ochranný svaz autorský (OSA), (GESTOR) – (English: Protective Association of Authors for Rights to Musical Works), (the Union for the Protection of Authorship of Czech Republic)
• nezávislá společnost výkonných umělců a výrobců zvukových a zvukově-obrazových záznamů (INTERGRAM) – (English: Independent Society of Performing Artists and Producers of Sound and Audiovisual Recordings)
• Ochranná organizace autorská – Sdružení autorů (OOA-S) – (English: Copyright Protection Organisation – Authors' Association)
• Ochranná asociace zvukařů – autorů (OAZA) – (English: Sound Engineers' Copyright Association)

Denmark

• Gramex  [ da ]
• KODA
• Nordisk Copyright Bureau

Estonia

• Eesti Autorite Ühing (EAÜ)

Finland

• Teosto (authors and composers of musical works)

France

• Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD)
• Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM) English: Society of Authors, Composers, and Music Editors
• Société de la Propriété Artistique des Dessins et Modèles (SPADEM), visual artists - defunct
• Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques  [ fr ] (ADAGP), visual artists
• Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (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 (GEMA)
• Gesellschaft zur Übernahme und Wahrnehmung von Filmaufführungsrechten mbH (GÜFA)
• Cultural Commons Collecting Society SCE mbH (C3S) (planned)
• Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst  [ de ] – Artists, Photographers und Filmmakers.
• VG Wort – Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort (English: Collecting Society Wort).

• Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten – GVL (Performing artists, Producers of sound recordings).

Greece

• GEA-GRAMMO, ERATO, APOLLON  [ el ]: Producers, Musicians, Singers (neighboring rights).

Republic of Ireland

• Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO)

Italy

• Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (SIAE) (English: Italian Society of Authors and Publishers).
• Rete Artisti Spettacolo Innovazione (RASI) (English: Italian Society of Artists and Performers). www.reteartistispettacolo.it

The Netherlands

• Buma/Stemra

Norway

• TONO (Copyright collective for authors and composers of musical works)

Poland

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

• ZAiKS (Polish Society of Authors and Composers)
• ZPAV (Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry)
• ZPAP (Association of Polish Artists and Designers)
• SARP (Association of Polish Architects)

Portugal

• Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (SPA) English: Portuguese Society of Authors

Slovenia

• AIPA - Collecting Society of Authors, Performers and Producers of Audiovisual Works in Slovenia  [ sl ]
• IPF - Collective Management of the Rights of Performers and Phonogram Producers in Slovenia  [ sl ]
• SAZAS - Collective Management Society for Musical Authors' Rights in Slovenia  [ sl ]

Slovakia

• SOZA (Slovak Performing Rights Society)

Spain

• SGAE: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (English: General Society of Authors and Editors).

Sweden

• Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå (STIM) (English: Swedish Performing Rights Society).
• IFPI Sweden - International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (Swedish Society of Music Companies)

Switzerland

• Motion Picture Licensing Company Switzerland
• ProLitteris  [ de ]
• SUISA – Schweizerische Gesellschaft für die Rechte der Urheber musikalischer Werke (English: Swiss Society for the Rights of Authors of Musical Works).
• Swissperform  [ de ]

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, United Kingdom
• Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)
• Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS)
• Directors UK (D-UK), formerly the Directors' and Producers' Rights Society (DPRS)
• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)
• Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS)
• PRS for Music, formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance
• Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL)
• Publishers' Licensing Services (PLS)

Middle East

Israel

• Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel (ACUM) (performance rights society, representing authors, poets, lyricists, composers, arrangers, and music publishers)
• Tali Rights, the Israeli Scriptwriters & Directors Collecting society

Turkey

• Türkiye Musiki Eseri Sahipleri Meslek Birliği (MESAM)
• Müzik Yorumcuları Birliği (MÜYORBİR)

Lebanon

• Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM)

North America

Further information: Performance rights organisation § Organizations

Canada

• Access Copyright – The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (formerly CanCopy)
• American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM)
• Canadian Artists' Representation Copyright Collective (CARCC)
• Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd (CMRRA Ltd)
• Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC)
• Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC) (formerly Playwrights Union of Canada)
• Re:Sound Music Licensing Company
• Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD)
• Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)

United States

• AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund
• AllTrack (AllTrack Performing Rights), a US-based performance right organization
• American Society for Collective Rights Licensing (ASCRL)(Visual Materials)
• American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
• Artists Rights Society
• BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.)
• Christian Copyright Licensing International
• Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
• Harry Fox Agency, a US-based music rights agency for reproduction rights
• Mechanical Licensing Collective (the MLC), the US based mechanical rights organization designated by the US Copyright Office. ^[2]
• Music Reports, a US-based music rights licensing company
• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)
• SESAC, a US-based performance rights association
• SoundExchange, 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 (SADAIC)
• Sociedad Argentina de Gestión de Actores Intérpretes (SAGAI)

Brazil

• Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição (ECAD)
• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation Brasil
• Associação Brasileira de Música e Artes (ABRAMUS)
• Sociedade Brasileira de Autores, Compositores e Escritores de Músic (SBACEM)
• Sociedade Brasileira de Administração e Proteção de Direitos Intelectuais (SOCINPRO)
• União Brasileira de Compositores (UBC)
• Associação_de_Músicos,_Arranjadores_e_Regentes (AMAR)
• Associação de Intérpretes e Músicos (ASSIM)
• Sociedade Independente de Compositores e Autores Musicais (SICAM)

Chile

• Sociedad Chilena de Derechos de Autor (SCD)

Uruguay

• Asociación General de Autores del Uruguay (AGADU)

Colombia

• Dirección Nacional de Derechos de Autor (DNDA)
• Sociedad de Autores y Compositores (SAYCO)
• Asociación Colombiana de Interpretes y Productores (ACIMPRO)

Oceania

Australasia

• Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS)
• Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)

Australia

• Australian Writers Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS)
• Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)
• Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA)
• Screenrights: The Audio Visual Copyright Society (Audio-Visual Collecting Society Ltd)

References

1. Yim Seung-hye (July 28, 2015). "Divided royalties enrage musicians". Korea JoongAng Daily . Retrieved June 30, 2016.
2. "Music Licensing Modernization | U.S. Copyright Office".