List of copyright collection societies

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

• Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation (IRRO)
• Recorded Music Performance Ltd (RMPL)
• The Indian Performing Right Society Ltd (IPRS)

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

Basque Country

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

Belgium

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

Croatia

• Croatian Composers' Society

Cyprus

• PRS for Music, formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance

Czech Republic

• DILIA (Divadelní, literární, audiovizuální agentura)
• Ochranný svaz autorský
• 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)
• Société de la Propriété Artistique et 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

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)

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)

Slovakia

• SOZA (Slovak Performing Rights Society)

Sweden

• Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå (Stim) (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
• 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

• Müzik Yorumcuları Birliği (MÜYORBİR)

Lebanon

• Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM)

North America

Further information: 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 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
• 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)

Brazil

• Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição (ECAD)
• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation Brasil

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)