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Collection Societies
What are collection societies?
These are the organisations responsible for the tracking, collection, and payment of earned royalties to copyright owners. This is a blanket term to refer to all organisations, individually they are also referred to as either performing rights organisations or collective management organisations.
Essentially: Collection societies handle a completely different set of rights than a distributor and can be very useful in earning additional royalties.
Do I need to be registered to a collection society to distribute my music with iMusician?
No, registration to a collection society is not a requirement to distribute your music through iMusician.
What is an IPI / CAE?
The IPI/ CAE number is an international identification number assigned to songwriters and publishers to uniquely identify rights holders. It means your artist name can always be traced to you legally.
Below, you will find a list for each music collection society in every territory or country as well as the corresponding links to their websites:
Africa
Ghana
Kenya
- Kenya Association of Music Producers (KAMP)
- Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK)
- Performers Rights Society of Kenya (PRISK)
Nigeria
- Audio Visual Rights Society of Nigeria (AVRS)
- Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON)
- Musical Copyright Society Nigeria Ltd (MCSN)
South Africa
- Composers Authors and Publishers Association (CAPASSO)
- Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO)
- The Recording Industry Of South Africa (RISA)
- South African Music Performance Rights Association (SAMPRA)
Uganda
Tanzania
Asia
Azerbaijan
China
Indonesia
India
- Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation (IRRO)
- Indian Performing Rights Organization (IPRS)
- Phonographic Performance Limited India (PPL India)
Hong Kong
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.
Kazakhstan
Malaysia
- Recording Performers Malaysia Berhad (RPM)
- Music Authors' Copyright Protection (MACP)
- Public Performance Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PPM)
Nepal
- Music Royalty Collection Society Nepal (MRCSN)
- Performers' Society of Nepal (PSN)
- Music Producers' Society of Nepal (MPSN)
Philippines
- Filipinas Copyright Licensing Society (FILCOLS)
- Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (FILSCAP)
- Filipino Visual Arts and Design Rights Organization (FILVADRO)
- Performing Rights Society of the Philippines (PRSP)
- Sound Recording Rights Society, Inc. (SOUNDSRIGHT)
Russia
- Russian Authors Society (RAO)
- Russian Organization for Intellectual Property VOIS (Collective society related rights)
Singapore
South Korea
- Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA)
- Recording Industry Association of Korea (RIAK)
- Federation of Korean Music Performers (FKMP)
Taiwan
Europe
Austria
- Autoren, Komponisten und Musikverleger (AKM)
- Vervielfältigungs- und Verbreitungsrechte auf Ton- und Bildtonträgern (AustroMechana - AuMe)
- Interpreten und Produzenten von Tonträgern und Musikvideos (LSG)
- Rechte der bildenden Künstler, Fotografen und Choreografen (Bildrecht)
- Rechte und Ansprüche der Filmschaffenden (VDFS)
Belgium
Bulgaria
- PROPHON - non-profit organization for collective management of related music rights - those of phonogram producers and artists
- MUSICAUTOR - non-profit organization for collective management of copyrights - those of authors and composers
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
- OSA - Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním (authors of music and lyrics)
- GESTOR - ochranný svaz autorský (resales of originals)
- Ochranná asociace zvukařů - autorů (sound engineers)
Denmark
- VISDA (former Copydan) Visuelle Rettigheder i Danmark. Image rights and licensing.
- Christian Video Licensing International Denmark
- Gramex
- KODA
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Denmark
- Nordisk Copyright Bureau - Recommended
Estonia
- EAÜ (authors and composers of musical works) - Recommended
- EFÜ (phonogram producers)
- EEL (performers of musical works)
Finland
- Kopiosto (Copyright organization for authors, publishers and performing artists, collecting fees for photocopying, radio and TV programmes, extended collective licensing agreements and copyright levies)
- Teosto (authors and composers of musical works)
- Gramex (performers and publishers of musical works)
France
- Agence nationale de gestion des oeuvres audiovisuelles (ANGOA)
- Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD)
- Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM) - Recommended
- Société civile des auteurs multimédia (SCAM)
- Société pour l'administration du droit de reproduction mécanique des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs (SDRM)
- Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques (ADAGP)
- Société des éditeurs et auteurs de musique (SEAM)
- Société pour l’administration des droits des artistes et musiciens interprètes (ADAMI)
- Société de perception et de distribution des droits des artistes interprètes de la musique et de la danse (SPEDIDAM)
- Société pour la perception de la rémunération équitable (SPRE)
- Société civile des producteurs associés (SCPA)
- Société civile pour l’exploitation des droits des producteurs phonographiques (SCPP)
- Société civile des producteurs de phonogrammes en France (SPPF)
- Société civile des producteurs de phonogrammes en France (PROCIREP)
- Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP), the National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing
Germany
- Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA) - Recommended
- Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten mbH (GVL)
- Gesellschaft zur Übernahme und Wahrnehmung von Filmaufführungsrechten mbH (GÜFA)
- Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort - Rechtsfähiger Verein kraft Verleihung (VG Wort)
- Gesellschaft zur Verwertung der Urheber- und Leistungsschutzrechte von Medienunternehmen mbH (VG Media)
- Verwertungsgesellschaft Musikedition - Rechtsfähiger Verein kraft Verleihung (VG Musikedition)
- Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten mbH (VFF)
- Verwertungsgesellschaft für Nutzungsrechte an Filmwerken mbH (VGF)
- Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Veranstalterrechten mbH (GWVR)
- Cultural Commons Collecting Society SCE mbH (Planned - not in use yet)
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Republic of Ireland
- Christian Copyright Licensing International
- Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO)
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Ireland
- Phonographic Performance Ireland (PPI)
Italy
- Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (SIAE)
- Società Consorzio Fonografici (SCF)
- Diritti Artisti (IPAA)
- R.A.S.I. Rete Artisti Spettacolo Innovazione
- Society collecting compensations of neighbouring rights
- Soundreef
Latvia
- LaIPA (Latvian performers’ and Producers’ Association)
- AKKA/LAA (Copyright and Communication Consulting Agency/Latvian Authors Association)
Lithuania
- LATGA (Association LATGA - Lithuanian Copyright Society)
- AGATA (AGATA - Lithuanian Neighbouring Rights Society)
Luxembourg
- Luxorr Société de gestion et de répartition des droits d'auteur et des droits voisins (Luxembourg Organization For Reproduction Rights Asbl)
- Sacem Luxembourg (société des auteurs compositeurs et éditeurs de musique)
The Netherlands
Norway
- Kopinor (books, newspapers, magazines, sheet music, and similar publications)
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Norway
- TONO (Copyright collective for authors and composers of musical works)
- Gramo (Joint Collecting Society in Norway for Musicians, Performing Artists and Phonogram Producers)
Poland
- ZAiKS (Polish Society of Authors and Composers)
- ZPAV (Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry)
- SFP - ZAPA (Polish Filmmakers Association - The Union of Audiovisual Authors and Producers)
- SAWP (Polish Association of Performing Artists of Music and Music with Lyrics)
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
- Asociación De Gestión De Derechos Intelectuales (AGEDI)
- Sociedad de Artistas Intérpretes o Ejecutantes de España (AIE)
- Artistas Intérpretes Sociedad de Gestión (AISGE)
- Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos (CEDRO)
- Derechos de Autor de Medios Audiovisuales (DAMA)
- Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA)
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Spain
- Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE)
Sweden
- Copyswede
- Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå (Stim) (Swedish Performing Rights Society)
- IFPI Sweden - International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (Swedish Society of Music Companies)
- Sveriges kompositörer och textförfattare (Skap) (Swedish Society of Songwriters, Composers and Authors)
Switzerland
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Switzerland
- ProLitteris
- Société Suisse des Auteurs SSA
- SUISA
- SUISSIMAGE
- Swissperform
- Audion
Ukraine
United Kingdom
- Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS)
- Artists' Collecting Society (ACS)
- British Equity Collecting Society (BECS)
- 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)
- Mechanical Copyright Protection Society of Great Britain
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)
- NLA Media Access (NLA)
- Open University Worldwide (OUW)
- PRS for Music, formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance
- Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL)
- Publishers' Licensing Services (PLS)
Middle East
Armenia
Egypt
Israel
- Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel (ACUM) (performance rights society, representing authors, poets, lyricists, composers, arrangers, and music publishers)
- ESHKOLOT representing performers
- Tali Rights, the Israeli Screenwriters & Directors Collecting society
- EILAM, Israeli Musicians' Collecting Society representing performing musicians and conductors
Turkey
- Türkiye Musiki Eseri Sahipleri Meslek Birligi (MESAM)
- Turkish Phonographic Industry Society (MÜ-YAP)
- Müzik Yorumcuları Birliği (MÜYORBİR)
North America
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)
- Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd (CMRRA Ltd)
- Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC)
- Musicians' Rights Organization Canada (MROC)
- Re:Sound Music Licensing Company
- Société civile des auteurs multimedia (SCAM)
- Société de gestion collective de l'Union des artistes (ARTISTI)
- Société de gestion collective des droits des producteurs de phonogrammes et vidéogrammes du Québec (SOPROQ)
- Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
Caribbean
- Eastern Caribbean Collective Organisation for Music Rights (ECCO)
- Copyright Organisation of Trinidad & Tobago (COTT)
- Jamaica Music Society (JAMMS)
- The Trinidad and Tobago Copyright Collection Organisation (TTCO)
United States
- ACEMLA, Asociacion de Compositores y Editores de Musica Latinoamericana, formerly SPACEM, a P.R.O. in Puerto Rico
- AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund
- American Society for Collective Rights Licensing, Inc. (ASCRL) Washington, D.C. Illustration and Photography
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) - Recommended
- BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) - Recommended
- Christian Copyright Licensing International
- Global Music Rights (GMR)
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)
- SESAC, a US-based performance rights association - Recommended
- SoundExchange, a performance rights association - Recommended
South & Central America
Argentina
Asociación Argentina de Intérpretes (AADI)
- Sociedad General de Autores de la Argentina (ArgenTores)
- Centro de Administración de Derechos Reprográficos de la República Argentina (CADRA)
- Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música (SADAIC)
- Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (CAPIF)
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation South America
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
- Asociación Colombiana de Intérpretes y Productores Fonográficos (ACINPRO)
- Asociación Nacional de Autores e Intérpretes de la Canción Colombiana (ANAICOL)
- Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Colombia (SAYCO)
Peru
Mexico
Oceania
Australasia
Australia
- Australian Screen Directors Authorship Collecting Society (ASDACS)
- 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)
- VISCOPY Australia
Fiji
New Zealand
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