List of copyright collection societies
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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 =
= 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 {{interlanguage link|Japan Rights Clearance Inc.|lt=Japan Rights Clearance Inc.|ja|ジャパン・ライツ・クリアランス}} and e-License in 2016.
- {{interlanguage link|Music People's Nest|ja|演奏家権利処理合同機構MPN}} (MPN)
; Visual arts
- {{interlanguage link|Japan Art, Photograph and Graphic Art Copyright Organization|ja|日本美術著作権機構}} (APG-Japan) - A member of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers.
- {{interlanguage link|Japanese Society for Protecting Artists' Rights|ja|日本美術著作権協会}} (JASPAR) - Non-Japanese visual arts such as Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí and Le Corbusier.
- {{interlanguage link|Société pour la Protection des Droits Artistiques|ja|美術著作権協会}} (SPDA) - Handles works of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Downsized after the JASPAR's spin-off in 2012.
- {{interlanguage link|Japan Photographic Copyright Association|ja|日本写真著作権協会}} (JPCA) - Represents ten photographic business associations such as Japan Professional Photographers Society.
; Videos
- {{interlanguage link|audiovisual Rights management association|ja|映像コンテンツ権利処理機構}} (aRma) - Established by {{interlanguage link|Japan Association of Music Enterprises|ja|日本音楽事業者協会}}, {{interlanguage link|Federation of Music Producers Japan|ja|日本音楽制作者連盟}}, {{interlanguage link|Geidankyo|ja|日本芸能実演家団体協議会}} (meaning consortium of entertainment performers associations of Japan).
- {{interlanguage link|Performers' Rights Entrustment|ja|映像実演権利者合同機構}} (PRE) - Collects licensing fees of TV programs.
; Publications
- {{interlanguage link|Japan Publishing Copyright Association|ja|日本出版著作権協会}} (JPCA) - Issued a strong statement against Google Book Search Settlement Agreement.
- {{interlanguage link|Japan Reproduction Rights Center|ja|日本複製権センター}} (JRRC) - Mainly on behalf of paper-based publishers.
- {{interlanguage link|Rental Rights Administration Center for Publications|ja|出版物貸与権管理センター}} (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 =
= 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 =
Africa
=Ghana=
- Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO)
= Kenya =
= South Africa =
= Uganda =
= Zambia =
Europe
= Austria =
- AKM: {{Interlanguage link multi|Gesellschaft der Autoren, Komponisten und Musikverleger|de}} ({{langx|en|Society of Authors, Composers, and Music Publishers}}).
= Basque Country =
- EKKI institution for managing authors' and other rights holders' rights
= Belgium =
= Bulgaria =
- Musicautor
= Croatia =
= 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 =
- {{interlanguage link|Gramex|da}}
- 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) {{langx|en|Society of Authors, Composers, and Music Editors}}
- Société de la Propriété Artistique des Dessins et Modèles (SPADEM), visual artists - defunct
- {{interlanguage link|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)
- {{Interlanguage link multi|Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst|lt=Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst|de|VG Bild-Kunst}} – Artists, Photographers und Filmmakers.
- VG Wort – Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort ({{langx|en|Collecting Society Wort}}).
- Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten – GVL (Performing artists, Producers of sound recordings).
= Greece =
- {{interlanguage link|GEA-GRAMMO, ERATO, APOLLON|el|GEA-GRAMMO, ΕΡΑΤΩ, ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ}}: Producers, Musicians, Singers (neighboring rights).
= Republic of Ireland =
= Italy =
- Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (SIAE) ({{langx|en|Italian Society of Authors and Publishers}}).
- Rete Artisti Spettacolo Innovazione (RASI) ({{langx|en|Italian Society of Artists and Performers}}). www.reteartistispettacolo.it
= The Netherlands =
= 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) {{langx|en|Portuguese Society of Authors}}
= Slovenia =
- AIPA - {{ill|Collecting Society of Authors, Performers and Producers of Audiovisual Works in Slovenia|sl|Zavod AIPA}}
- IPF - {{ill|Collective Management of the Rights of Performers and Phonogram Producers in Slovenia|sl|Zavod IPF}}
- SAZAS - {{ill|Collective Management Society for Musical Authors' Rights in Slovenia|sl|SAZAS}}
= Slovakia =
- SOZA (Slovak Performing Rights Society)
= Spain =
- SGAE: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores ({{langx|en|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
- {{interlanguage link|ProLitteris|de}}
- SUISA – Schweizerische Gesellschaft für die Rechte der Urheber musikalischer Werke ({{langx|en|Swiss Society for the Rights of Authors of Musical Works}}).
- {{interlanguage link|Swissperform|de}}
= Ukraine =
= 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 =
North America
{{further|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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.copyright.gov/music-modernization/115/|title = Music Licensing Modernization {{pipe}} U.S. Copyright Office}}
- 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 =
= 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 =
= Uruguay =
= Colombia=
Oceania
=Australasia=
= 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)