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)
• Christian Video Licensing International
• International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC)
• International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)
• International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)
• International Independant Artists Rights Organisasion (iIARO)
• International Film and Movie Licensing Authority (IFAMLA)
• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)
• The Societies' Council for the Collective Management of Performers' Rights (SCAPR)

Asia

Azerbaijan

• Copyright Agency of Azerbaijan Republic (Azərbaycan Respublikası Müəllif Hüquqları Agentliyi)

China

• Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC)

Georgia

• International Film and Movie Licensing Authority (IFAMLA)

India

• Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation (IRRO)
• Indian Performing Rights Organization (IPRS)
• NPPL (public performance rights YRF, UTV, SHEMAROO, BIGNET)
• Phonographic Performance Limited (PPO)

Hong Kong

• Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Ltd. (CASH)

Japan

• JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers)
• NexTone Inc.

Kazakhstan

• National Union of Right Holders (NUR)

Malaysia

• Motion Picture Licensing Company Malaysia
• Recording Performers Malaysia Berhad (RPM)
• Music Authors' Copyright Protection (MACP)
• Performers & Artistes Rights Malaysia (PRISM)
• Public Performance Malaysia (PPM)

Nepal

• Music Royalty Collection Society Nepal (MRCSN)

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

• International Film and Movie Licensing Authority (IFAMLA)
• Russian Authors Society
• RAO
• 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)

Singapore

• Christian Copyright Licensing International Singapore
• Christian Video Licensing International Singapore
• Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (COMPASS)
• Motion Picture Licensing Company Singapore

South Korea

• Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA)^[1]
• The Korean Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (KOSCAP)^[1]
• Recording Industry Association of Korea (RIAK)
• Federation of Korean Music Performers (FKMP)

Sri Lanka

• International Film and Movie Licensing Authority (IFAMLA)

Taiwan

• Association of Recording Copyright Owners (ARCO)
• Music Copyright Society of Taipei (MÜST)

Africa

Ghana

• Audiovisual Rights Society of Ghana (ARSOG)
• Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO)

Kenya

• Kenya Association of Music Producers (KAMP)
• Reproduction Rights Society of Kenya (KOPIKEN)
• Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK)
• Performers Rights Society of Kenya (PRISK)

Mauritius

• Mauritius Society of Authors

Nigeria

• Audio Visual Rights Society of Nigeria (AVRS)
• Musical Copyright Society Nigeria (MCSN)
• Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON)

South Africa

• Christian Copyright Licensing International South Africa
• Christian Video Licensing International South Africa
• Dramatic, Artistic and Literary Rights Organisation (DALRO)
• International Independent Artist Rights Organisation (iIARO)
• National Organisation for Reproduction Rights in Music in Southern Africa (NORM)
• Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO)

Uganda

• Uganda Federation for Movie Industry
• Uganda Performing Right Society
• Uganda Reproduction Rights Organisation

Europe

• Association of European Performers' Organisations AEPO-ARTIS
• Cultural Commons Collecting Society
• Soundreef

Austria

• Austro Mechana (AuMe)
• Autoren, Komponisten und Musikverleger (AKM)
• Motion Picture Licensing Company

Belgium

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

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

• Croatian Composers' Society
• ZAMP

Cyprus

• PRS for Music, formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance
• Asteras Collective Rights Management :Musicians, Singers

Czech Republic

• OSA - Ochranný svaz autorský pro práva k dílům hudebním (authors of music and lyrics)
• INTERGRAM, nezávislá společnost výkonných umělců a výrobců zvukových a zvukově obrazových záznamů (music interpreters, audio publishers, audiovisual publishers)
• DILIA, divadelní, literární, audiovizuální agentura (literature, performing arts)
• Ochranná organizace autorská-Sdružení autorů děl výtvarného umění, architektury a obrazové složky audiovizuálních děl (fine arts, architecture, visual part of audiovisual works)
• GESTOR - ochranný svaz autorský (resales of originals)
• Ochranná asociace zvukařů - autorů (sound engineers)

Denmark

• Christian Video Licensing International Denmark
• Gramex
• KODA
• Motion Picture Licensing Company Denmark
• Nordisk Copyright Bureau

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)
• Kuvasto (arts)
• Tuotos (audiovisual works)
• Sanasto (literal works)

France

• Agence nationale de gestion des oeuvres audiovisuelles (ANGOA)
• EXTRA-MEDIA
• Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD)
• Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM)
• 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 civile des éditeurs de langue française (SCELF)
• Centre français d’exploitation du droit de copie (CFC)
• Société des éditeurs et auteurs de musique (SEAM) SEAM
• SESAM
• SORIMAGE
• 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 de la Propriété Artistique et des Dessins et Modèles (SPADEM) - visual artists
• Société pour la rémunération de la copie privée sonore (SORECOP)
• Société pour la rémunération de la copie privée audiovisuelle (COPIE FRANCE)
• 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)
• Société civile des auteurs, réalisateurs et producteurs (ARP)
• Société française des intérêts des auteurs de l’écrit (SOFIA)
• Société des auteurs de l’image fixe (SAIF)
• Société des auteurs de jeux (SAJE)
• Société des arts visuels associés (AVA)
• Société des artistes-interprètes (SAI)
• La Société civile des Auteurs Réalisateurs et Producteurs (L'ARP)
• Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP), the National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing

Germany

• Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA)
• Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten mbH (GVL)
• Gesellschaft zur Übernahme und Wahrnehmung von Filmaufführungsrechten mbH (GÜFA)
• Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild - Kunst (VG Bild-Kunst)
• 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 Film- und Fernsehrechten mbH (GWFF)
• Urheberrechtschutz Gesellschaft mbH (AGICOA)
• Verwertungsgesellschaft Treuhandgesellschaft Werbefilm GmbH (VG TWF)
• Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Veranstalterrechten mbH (GWVR)
• Cultural Commons Collecting Society SCE mbH (C3S) This organization has been founded recently. It aims to start operations in 2016 as a competitor to GEMA.

Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

• Luxorr Société de gestion et de répartition des droits d'auteur et des droits voisins (Luxembourg Organization For Reproduction Rights Asbl) - Website: www.luxorr.lu & www.lord.lu
• Sacem Luxembourg (société des auteurs compositeurs et éditeurs de musique)

Greece

• GEA-GRAMMO,ΕΡΑΤΩ,ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ GEA-GRAMMO,ERATO,APOLLON: Producers, Musicians, Singers.

Hungary

• Artisjus (music, literature)
• EJI (performers)
• FilmJUS (movies)
• MAHASZ (record producers)
• HUNGART (visual artists)
• RSZ (reprography)

Iceland

• STEF (music) www.stef.is
• Smáís (video and video games)
• Myndstef (pictures, architects, etc.)
• Fjölís (books)
• SFH (performers, record producers)
• IHM

Republic of Ireland

• Christian Copyright Licensing International
• Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO)
• Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation (IVARO)
• Motion Picture Licensing Company Ireland
• Phonographic Performance Ireland (PPI)

Italy

• Society for the collective administration of Audiovisual Performers’ Rights (ARTISTI 7607)
• Institute for the Protection of Performing Artists (IMAE)
• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation Italy
• Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (SIAE)
• Società Consorzio Fonografici (SCF)
• Diritti Artisti (IPAA)
• R.A.S.I. Rete Artisti Spettacolo Innovazione (www.reteartistispettacolo.it)
• Society collecting compensations of neighbouring rights - ItsRight (www.itsright.it)

Latvia

• LaIPA (Latvian performers’ and Producers’ Association)
• AKKA/LAA (Copyright and Communication Consulting Agency/Latvian Authors Association)
• LATREPRO (Latvian Reprographic Rights Organisation)

Lithuania

• AVAKA (Lithuanian audiovisual authors and producers rights association)
• LATGA (Association LATGA - Lithuanian Copyright Society)
• AGATA (AGATA - Lithuanian Neighbouring Rights Society)

The Netherlands

• Buma/Stemra
• SENA
• Musicopy
• Norma

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)
• BONO (Norwegian Visual Artists Copyright Society)

Poland

• Motion Picture Licensing Company Poland
• ZAiKS
• ZPAV
• SFP
• STOART
• SAWP
• STL
• Repropol
• Copyright Polska
• ZPAP
• ZPAF

Portugal

• Motion Picture Licensing Company
• SPA
• GDA
• Audiogest

Romania

• Motion Picture Licensing Company Romania
• Romanian Musical Performing and Mechanical Rights Society
• ORDA
• Credidam
• UCMR
• UCIMR

Slovakia

• SOZA (Slovak Performing Rights Society)

Slovenia

• Združenje SAZAS
• Društvo ZAMP
• SAZOR
• Zavod IPF
• Zavod AIPA

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 (Swedish Performing Rights Society) (STIM)
• Swedish Society of Songwriters, Composers and Authors

Switzerland

• Motion Picture Licensing Company Switzerland^[2]
• ProLitteris (de)
• Société Suisse des Auteurs SSA^[3]
• SUISA
• SUISSIMAGE^[4]
• PSwissperform (de)

Ukraine

• International Film and Movie Licensing Authority (IFAMLA)
• Ukrainian Agency of Copyright and Related Rights (UACRR)

United Kingdom

• Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS)
• Artists' Collecting Society (ACS)
• Broadcasting Data Services (BDS)
• British Equity Collecting Society (BECS)
• Christian Copyright Licensing International, United Kingdom
• Christian Video 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)
• Educational Recording Agency (ERA)
• Mechanical Copyright Protection Society of Great Britain
• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)
• Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA)
• Open University Worldwide (OUW)
• PRS for Music, formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance
• Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL)
• Publishers Licensing Society (PLS)
• Video Performance Limited (VPL)

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)
• Audio-Video Licensing Agency (AVLA)
• Border Broadcasters' Inc. (BBI)
• Canadian Artists' Representation Copyright Collective (CARCC)
• Canadian Broadcasters Rights Agency (CBRA)
• Canadian Musical Reproduction Agency Ltd. (CMRRA)
• Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC)
• Canadian Retransmission Collective (CRC)
• Canadian Retransmission Right Association (CRCC)
• Canadian Screenwriters Collection Society (CSCS)
• Copyright Collective of Canada (CCC)
• Directors Rights Collective of Canada (DRCC)
• Direct Response Television Collective (DRTVC)
• Educational Rights Collective of Canada (ERCC)
• FWS Joint Sports Claimants (FWS)
• Major League Baseball Collective of Canada Inc. (MLB)
• Musicians' Rights Organization Canada (MROC)
• Producers Audiovisual Collective of Canada (PACC)
• Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC) (formerly Playwrights Union of Canada)
• Re:Sound Music Licensing Company
• Société civile des auteurs multimedia (SCAM)
• Société de gestion collective des droits des producteurs de phonogrammes et vidéogrammes du Québec (SOPROQ)
• Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD)
• Société du droit de reproduction des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs au Canada (SODRAC)
• Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
• Société québécoise de gestion collective des droit de reproduction (COPIBEC)
• Société québécoise des auteur dramatiques (SoQAD)

Caribbean

• Eastern Caribbean Collective Organisation for Music Rights (ECCO)
• Copyright Organisation of Trinidad & Tobago (COTT)
• Copyright Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Incorporated (COSCAP)
• Jamaica Music Society (JAMMS)
• Jamaica Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers Limited (JACAP)

Mexico

• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation Mexico
• SACM (Sociedad De Autores y Compositores De Mexico)

United States

• AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund
• Artists Rights Society of New York (ARS)
• American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
• BMI, the Broadcast Music Inc.
• Christian Copyright Licensing International
• Christian Video Licensing International
• Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)
• SESAC, a US-based performance rights association
• SoundExchange, a performance rights association
• VAGA, a visual artists collecting society
• ACEMLA, Asociacion de Compositores y Editores de Musica Latinoamericana, formerly SPACEM, a P.R.O. in Puerto Rico

South America

• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation South 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
• Sociedad Argentina de Autores Fotográficos (SADAFO)
• Sociedad Argentina de Actores e Intérpretes (SAGAI)

Brazil

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

Chile

• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation South Chile
• Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de Autor (SCD)

Colombia

• Asociación Colombiana de Intérpretes y Productores Fonográficos (ACINPRO)^[5]
• Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Colombia (SAYCO)

Peru

• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation South America

Middle East

Armenia

• ARMAUTHOR

Israel

• ACUM (performance rights society, representing authors, composers, lyricists, poets, arrangers and music publishers)
• ESHKOLOT representing performers.
• Tali Rights, the Israeli Scriptwriters & Directors Collecting society.

Turkey

• Musical Work Owners Group (MSG)
• Türkiye Musiki Eseri Sahipleri Meslek Birligi (MESAM)
• Turkish Phonographic Industry Society (MÜ-YAP)
• Müzik Yorumcuları Birliği (MÜYORBİR)

Oceania

Australasia

• Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS)
• Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)
• Christian Video Licensing International
• Motion Picture Licensing Corporation

Australia

• Australian Screen Directors Authorship Collecting Society (ASDACS)
• Australian Writers Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS)
• Christian Video Licensing International Australia
• Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)
• Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA)
• Screenrights: The Audio Visual Copyright Society (Audio-Visual Collecting Society Ltd)
• VISCOPY Australia

Fiji

• Fiji Performing Rights Association

New Zealand

• Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ)
• Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) New Zealand
• Christian Video Licensing International New Zealand
• PPNZ Music Licensing
• APRA New Zealand

Notes

1. Yim Seung-hye (July 28, 2015). "Divided royalties enrage musicians". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
2. http://www.mplc.ch/
3. https://www.ssa.ch/
4. http://www.suissimage.ch/
5. ACINPRO website (last visited June 27, 2015).