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 Japan Rights Clearance Inc. and e-License in 2016.
• Music People's Nest (MPN)

Visual arts

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

Videos

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

Publications

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

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: Gesellschaft der Autoren, Komponisten und Musikverleger (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

• Gramex
• 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
• Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques (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 – 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: 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
• IPF - Collective Management of the Rights of Performers and Phonogram Producers in Slovenia
• SAZAS - Collective Management Society for Musical Authors' Rights in Slovenia

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

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)
• 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.
• 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)
• Screenrights: The Audio Visual Copyright Society (Audio-Visual Collecting Society Ltd)

References

Articles connexes

1. Copyright collective
2. Music Copyright Society of Kenya
3. Collective rights management
4. PRS for Music
5. Copyright
6. Phonographic Performance Limited
7. Motion Picture Licensing Corporation
8. Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Auteurs et Compositeurs
9. United States Copyright Office
10. SOZA
11. Censorship by copyright
12. Access Copyright
13. STIM
14. List of copyright case law
15. Copyright law of the European Union
16. Artists Rights Society
17. Copyright law of the United States
18. Performance rights organisation
19. MÜYORBİR
20. Copyright Term Extension Act