List of copyright collection societies explained

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)

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)

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 and e-License in 2016.
• (MPN)

Visual arts

• (APG-Japan) - A member of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers.
• (JASPAR) - Non-Japanese visual arts such as Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí and Le Corbusier.
• (SPDA) - Handles works of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Downsized after the JASPAR's spin-off in 2012.
• (JPCA) - Represents ten photographic business associations such as Japan Professional Photographers Society.

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.
• (JRRC) - Mainly on behalf of paper-based publishers.
• (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]

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

• AKM: (English: Society of Authors, Composers, and Music Publishers).

Basque Country

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

Belgium

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

Bulgaria

• Musicautor

Croatia

• Croatian Composers' Society

Cyprus

• PRS for Music, formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance

Czech Republic

• DILIA (Divadelní, literární, audiovizuální agentura)
• Ochranný svaz autorský (OSA – Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním, z.s.)
• 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 Nordisk Copyright Bureau

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
• (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)
• – 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

• : 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 -
• IPF -
• SAZAS -

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
  • SUISA – Schweizerische Gesellschaft für die Rechte der Urheber musikalischer Werke (English: Swiss Society for the Rights of Authors of Musical Works).

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

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)
  • 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

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)
• (Audio-Visual Collecting Society Ltd)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Divided royalties enrage musicians . Yim Seung-hye . . July 28, 2015 . June 30, 2016 .
2. Web site: Music Licensing Modernization U.S. Copyright Office.