List of copyright collection societies
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This is a list of international and national copyright collection societies
, also called "copyright collectives".
Copyright collective
A copyright collective is a body created by copyright law or private agreement which engages in collective rights management...
, 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)Christian Copyright Licensing InternationalCCLI is a privately owned company that was founded in the US in 1988 by Howard Rachinski, who is the President/CEO. CCLI was launched after being developed by Howard for 3½ years while he was a Music Minister at a large church in Portland, Oregon. This prototype was called Starpraise Ministries,...
- International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC)Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et CompositeursConfédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs , founded in 1926, is a performance rights organisation, which coordinates the protection of its member creators' rights.As of June 2010, CISAC numbers 229 authors’ societies from 121 countries and indirectly represents more than...
- International Federation of the Phonogram Industry (IFPI)
- International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)Motion Picture Licensing CorporationThe Motion Picture Licensing Corporation is an international, independent copyright licensing agency authorized by motion picture copyright holders, such as studios and producers, to issue the MPLC Umbrella License® for the public performance of copyrighted motion pictures and other programs...
- The Societies' Council for the Collective Management of Performers' Rights (SCAPR)
- Christian Video Licensing International
India
- IRRO (The Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation)
- PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited)
- IPRS (Indian Performing Rights Organization)
Japan
- JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers)Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, often referred to as the is a Japanese copyright collection society. It was founded in 1939 as a non-profit making organization, and is the largest musical copyright administration society in Japan....
Malaysia
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Malaysia
- MACP (Music Authors' Copyright Protection)
- PRISM (Performers & Artistes Rights Malaysia)
- PPM (Public Performance Malaysia)
Singapore
- Christian Copyright Licensing International Singapore
- Christian Video Licensing International Singapore
- COMPASS (Composers and Authors Society of Singapore)
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Singapore
South Korea
Kenya
- KOPIKEN (The Reproduction Rights Society of Kenya)
- MCSK (Music Copyright Society of Kenya)
- KAMP (Kenya Association of Music Producers)
- PRSK (Performers Rights Society of Kenya)
South Africa
- Christian Copyright Licensing International South Africa
- Christian Video Licensing International South Africa
Europe
- Association of European Performers' Organisations AEPO-ARTISAssociation of European Performers' OrganisationsThe Association of European Performers' Organisations AEPO-ARTIS unites 28 collective management organisations for performers operating in 21 European countries, and represents them at European level. It is a non-profit making organisation....
Austria
Denmark
Finland
- Kopiosto (Copyright organization for authors, publishers and performing artists, collecting fees for photocopying, radio and tv programmes, extended collective licensingExtended collective licensingExtended collective licensing are collective copyright and related rights laws and licensing agreements. ECL agreements by law extend to rights owners who are not members of the collecting society agreeing the licence with a user...
agreements and copyright levies - TeostoTeostoTeosto is the performance rights organization that collects royalties on behalf of songwriters and composers in Finland. Teosto is a member of CISAC.- See also :*Copyright collecting agency*List of CISAC members*Performance rights organization...
(authors and composers of musical works) - Gramex (performers and publishers of musical works)
- Kuvasto (arts)
- Tuotos (audiovisual works)
- Sanasto (literal works)
France
- SACD Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques
- SACEM Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musiqueSociété des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musiqueSociété des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique is a French professional association collecting payments of artists’ rights and distributing the rights to the original songwriters, composers and music publishers.-History:...
- SCAM Société civile des auteurs multimédia
- SDRM Société pour l'administration du droit de reproduction mécanique des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs
- ADAGP Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques
- SCELF Société civile des éditeurs de langue française
- CFC Centre français d’exploitation du droit de copie
- SEAM Société des éditeurs et auteurs de musique
- SESAM
- SORIMAGE
- ADAMI Société pour l’administration des droits des artistes et musiciens interprètes
- SPEDIDAM Société de perception et de distribution des droits des artistes interprètes de la musique et de la danse
- SPRE Société pour la perception de la rémunération équitable
- SORECOP Société pour la rémunération de la copie privée sonore
- COPIE FRANCE Société pour la rémunération de la copie privée audiovisuelle
- SCPA Société civile des producteurs associés
- SCPP Société civile pour l’exploitation des droits des producteurs phonographiques
- SPPF Société civile des producteurs de phonogrammes en France
- PROCIREP Société civile des producteurs de phonogrammes en France
- ANGOA Agence nationale de gestion des oeuvres audiovisuelles
- ARP Société civile des auteurs, réalisateurs et producteurs
- SOFIA Société française des intérêts des auteurs de l’écrit
- SAIF Société des auteurs de l’image fixe
- SAJE Société des auteurs de jeux
- AVA Société des arts visuels associés
- EXTRA-MEDIA
- SAI Société des artistes-interprètes
Germany
- Christian Copyright Licensing International Germany
- Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische VervielfältigungsrechteGesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische VervielfältigungsrechteGesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte is a performance rights organization from Germany. It is the only such institution in Germany and a member of BIEM and CISAC...
(GEMA) - GÜFAGÜFAGÜFA is a German copyright collective of pornographic film production companies and copyright holders. As a copyright collective, GÜFA performs collective rights management for its member companies, such as by enforcing film distribution rights and copyright...
(Gesellschaft zur Übernahme und Wahrnehmung von Filmaufführungsrechten mbH) - Motion Picture Licensing Corporation Germany
- VG Bild-Kunst
- VG Wort
Hungary
- Artisjus (music, literature)
- EJI (performers)
- FilmJUS (movies)
- MAHASZ (record producers)
- HUNGART (visual artists)
- RSZ (reprography)
Republic of Ireland
- Christian Copyright Licensing International
- IMRO (Irish Music Rights Organisation)
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Ireland
- PPI (Phonographic performance Ireland)
Italy
- IMAE (Institute for the Protection of Performing Artists)
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation Italy
- SIAE
The Netherlands
- Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland (BREIN) (Broken link)
- Buma/StemraBUMA/STEMRABUMA/STEMRA are two private organizations in the Netherlands, the Buma Association and the Stemra Foundation that operate as one single company that acts as the Dutch collecting society for composers and music publishers.- History :The Buma Association was set up by Dutch music authors and...
- SENA
- Musicopy
Norway
- Kopinor (books, newspapers, magazines, sheet music, and similar publications)
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Norway
- TONOTONOTONO 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...
(Copyright collective for authors and composers of musical works)
Poland
Portugal
Russia
- RAO
- Russian Organization for Intellectual Property VOIS (Collective society related rights)
Spain
- AISGE Artistas Intérpretes Sociedad de Gestión
- CEDRO Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos
- DAMA Derechos de Autor de Medios Audiovisuales
- EGEDA Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Spain
- SGAE Sociedad General de Autores y EditoresSociedad General de Autores y EditoresSociedad General de Autores y Editores is the main collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers in Spain. It is similar to ASCAP. The composer and performer Teddy Bautista is the Chairman of the Board of Directors. The SGAE was founded in 1941 as General Society of Authors of...
Switzerland
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Switzerland
- ProLitteris
- SSASSA-Commercial/ government enterprises:* SSA Global Technologies* SSA Graphics* Social Security Administration* Special Services Area-Computing and data analysis:* Software Security Assurance* Serial Storage Architecture* Singular Spectrum Analysis...
- SUISASUISASUISA is the collecting society for Swiss songwriters, composers and music publishers. It undertakes collective rights management for its members in order to collect license fees when their musical works are performed in public, broadcast or transmitted, and to pay out performing royalties.It was...
- SUISSIMAGE
- SWISSPERFORM
United Kingdom
- Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS)
- Artists' Collecting Society (ACS)
- Broadcasting Data Services (BDS)
- British Equity Collecting Society (BECS)
- Christian Copyright Licensing International United Kingdom
- Christian Video 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)
- Educational Recording Agency (ERA)
- Motion Picture Licensing Company (MPLC)
- Newspaper Licensing AgencyNewspaper Licensing AgencyThe Newspaper Licensing Agency Limited is the collecting society for UK newspapers, a privately owned limited company...
( NLA) - Open University Worldwide (OUW)
- PRS for MusicPerforming Right SocietyPRS for Music is a UK copyright collection society undertaking collective rights management for musical works. PRS for Music was formed in 1997 as the MCPS-PRS Alliance, bringing together two collection societies: the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society and Performing Right Society...
, formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance - Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL)
- Publishers' Licensing Society (PLS)
- Video Performance Limited (VPL)
Canada
- Access Copyright – The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (formerly CanCopy)
- Alliance of Canadian Cinema Television and Radio Artists Performers' Rights Society (ACTRA)
- American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM)
- ArtistI
- Audio Ciné Films Inc.
- Audio-Video Licensing Agency (AVLA)
- Border Broadcasters' Inc. (BBI)
- Canadian Artists' Representation Copyright Collective (CARCC)
- Canadian Broadcasters Rights Agency (CBRA)
- Canadian Musical Reproduction Agency Ltd. (CMRRA)
- Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC)
- Canadian Retransmission Collective (CRC)
- Canadian Retransmission Right Association (CRCC)
- Canadian Screenwriters Collection Society (CSCS)
- Christian Copyright Licensing Inc. (CCLI)
- Christian Video Licensing International (CVLI)
- Copyright Collective of Canada (CCC)
- Criterion Pictures
- Directors Rights Collective of Canada (DRCC)
- Direct Response Television Collective (DRTVC)
- Educational Rights Collective of Canada (ERCC)
- FWS Joint Sports Claimants (FWS)
- Major League Baseball Collective of Canada Inc. (MLB)
- Producers Audiovisual Collective of Canada (PACC)
- Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC) (formerly Playwrights Union of Canada)
- Re:Sound Music Licensing Company
- Société civile des auteurs multimedia (SCAM)
- Société de gestion collective des droits des producteurs de phonogrammes et vidéogrammes du Québec (SOPROQ)
- Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD)
- Société du droit de reproduction des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs au Canada (SODRAC)
- Society of Composer, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
- Société québécoise de gestion collective des droit de reproduction (COPIBEC)
- Société québécoise des auteur dramatiques (SoQAD)
United States
- Artists Rights Society of New York (ARS)
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
- Christian Copyright Licensing International
- Christian Video Licensing International
- Copyright Clearance CenterCopyright Clearance CenterCopyright Clearance Center is a not-for-profit U.S. company based in Danvers, Massachusetts, that provides collective copyright licensing services for corporate and academic users of copyrighted materials. CCC procures agreements with rightsholders, primarily text publishers and authors, both for...
(CCC) - Motion Picture Licensing CorporationMotion Picture Licensing CorporationThe Motion Picture Licensing Corporation is an international, independent copyright licensing agency authorized by motion picture copyright holders, such as studios and producers, to issue the MPLC Umbrella License® for the public performance of copyrighted motion pictures and other programs...
(MPLC)
Argentina
- AADI (Asociación Argentina de Intérpretes)
- ARGENTORES (Sociedad General de Autores de la Argentina)
- CADRA (Centro de Administración de Derechos Reprográficos de la República Argentina).
- Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de MúsicaSociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de MúsicaSociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música is the entity that gathers all musicians and authors of Argentina, and the Argentine performance rights organisation that keeps registry of musical works, and collects and distributes royalties on behalf of the artists.Founded on June 9,...
(SADAIC) - CAPIF (Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas).
- SADAFO (Sociedad Argentina de Autores Fotográficos)
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Israel
- http://www.acum.org.il/english/activity-scope ACUM representing authors, composers, lyricists, poets, arrangers and music publishers.
- http://www.eshkolot.co.il/Default.aspx?subject=16&set=9:2&id=20 ESHKOLOT represnting performers.
Australasia
- Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS)
- APRAAustralasian Performing Right AssociationThe Australasian Performing Right Association is a copyright collective representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers. The association's head offices located in Sydney Australia, and it has branch offices in Auckland, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth...
- Christian Video Licensing International
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation
Australia
- Christian Video Licensing International Australia
- Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)
- Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA)
- Screenrights (Audio-Visual Collecting Society Ltd)
- VISCOPY Australia