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 Phonogram Industry (IFPI)
- International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)
- The Societies' Council for the Collective Management of Performers' Rights (SCAPR)
- Christian Video Licensing International
- IFAMLA (International Film and Movie Licensing Authority)
Asia
Georgia
India
- IRRO (The Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation)
- PPL (Phonographic Performance Limited)
- IPRS (Indian Performing Rights Organization)
- NPPL (public performance rights YRF,UTV,SHEMAROO,BIGNET)
Japan
- JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers)
- e-License
- JRC(Japan Rights Clearance Inc.)
Malaysia
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Malaysia
- MACP (Music Authors' Copyright Protection)
- PRISM (Performers & Artistes Rights Malaysia)
- PPM (Public Performance Malaysia)
Nepal
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)
Russia
- IFAMLA (International Film and Movie Licensing Authority)
- RAO
- Russian Organization for Intellectual Property VOIS (Collective society related rights)
Singapore
- Christian Copyright Licensing International Singapore
- Christian Video Licensing International Singapore
- COMPASS (Composers and Authors Society of Singapore)
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Singapore
South Korea
- KOMCA (Korea Music Copyright Association)
- RIAK (Recording Industry Association of Korea : Collective society for recording producers)
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Africa
Kenya
- KOPIKEN (The Reproduction Rights Society of Kenya)
- MCSK (Music Copyright Society of Kenya)
- KAMP (Kenya Association of Music Producers)
- PRISK (Performers Rights Society of Kenya)
Mauritius
Uganda
- Uganda Performing Right Society
- Uganda Federation for Movie Industry
- Uganda reproduction Rights Organisation
South Africa
- SAMRO Southern African Music Rights Organisation
- DALRO: Dramatic, Artistic and Literary Rights Organisation
- NORM - National Organisation for Reproduction Rights in Music in Southern Africa
- Christian Copyright Licensing International South Africa
- Christian Video Licensing International South Africa
Nigeria
Europe
Austria
Belgium
- 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
Cyprus
- PRS for Music, formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance
- GEA-GRAMMO,ΕΡΑΤΩ,ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ GEA-GRAMMO,ERATO,APOLLON: Producers, Musicians, Singers.
- Asteras Collective Rights Management
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
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
- SACD Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques
- SACEM Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique
- SCAM Société civile des auteurs multimédia
- SDRM Société pour l'administration du droit de reproduction mécanique des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs
- ADAGP Société des auteurs dans les arts graphiques et plastiques
- SCELF Société civile des éditeurs de langue française
- CFC Centre français d’exploitation du droit de copie
- SEAM Société des éditeurs et auteurs de musique
- SESAM
- SORIMAGE
- ADAMI Société pour l’administration des droits des artistes et musiciens interprètes
- SPEDIDAM Société de perception et de distribution des droits des artistes interprètes de la musique et de la danse
- SPRE Société pour la perception de la rémunération équitable
- SORECOP Société pour la rémunération de la copie privée sonore
- COPIE FRANCE Société pour la rémunération de la copie privée audiovisuelle
- SCPA Société civile des producteurs associés
- SCPP Société civile pour l’exploitation des droits des producteurs phonographiques
- SPPF Société civile des producteurs de phonogrammes en France
- PROCIREP Société civile des producteurs de phonogrammes en France
- ANGOA Agence nationale de gestion des oeuvres audiovisuelles
- ARP Société civile des auteurs, réalisateurs et producteurs
- SOFIA Société française des intérêts des auteurs de l’écrit
- SAIF Société des auteurs de l’image fixe
- SAJE Société des auteurs de jeux
- AVA Société des arts visuels associés
- EXTRA-MEDIA
- SAI Société des artistes-interprètes
Germany
- Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (GEMA)
- GVL (Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten mbH)
- GÜFA (Gesellschaft zur Übernahme und Wahrnehmung von Filmaufführungsrechten mbH)
- VG Bild-Kunst
- VG Wort
- VG Media
- Cultural Commons Collecting Society SCE mbH (C3S) This organization has been founded recently. It aims to start operations in 2015 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)
- Smáís (video and video games)
- Myndstef (pictures, architects, etc.)
- Fjölís (books)
- SFH (performers, record producers)
- IHM
Republic of Ireland
- Christian Copyright Licensing International
- IMRO (Irish Music Rights Organisation)
- IVARO (Irish Visual Artists Rights Organisation)
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Ireland
- PPI (Phonographic performance Ireland)
Italy
- ARTISTI 7607 - Society for the collective administration of Audiovisual Performers’ Rights.
- IMAE (Institute for the Protection of Performing Artists)
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation Italy
- SIAE
- SCF Consorzio Fonografici
- Diritti Artisti IPAA
Latvia
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)
- BONO (Norwegian Visual Artists Copyright Society)
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovenia
Spain
- AGEDI Asociación De Gestión De Derechos Intelectuales
- AIE Sociedad de Artistas Intérpretes o Ejecutantes de España
- AISGE Artistas Intérpretes Sociedad de Gestión
- CEDRO Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos
- DAMA Derechos de Autor de Medios Audiovisuales
- EGEDA Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales
- Motion Picture Licensing Company Spain
- SGAE Sociedad General de Autores y Editores
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
- IFAMLA (International Film and Movie Licensing Authority)
- UACRR (Ukrainian Agency of Copyright and Related Rights)
United Kingdom
- Authors' Licensing & 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)
- Motion Picture Licensing Company (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
Further information: Performance rights organisation#Organizations
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)
- ArtistI
- Audio Ciné Films Inc.
- 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)
- Christian Copyright Licensing Inc. (CCLI)
- Christian Video Licensing International (CVLI)
- Copyright Collective of Canada (CCC)
- Criterion Pictures
- 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 Composer, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
- Société québécoise de gestion collective des droit de reproduction (COPIBEC)
- Société québécoise des auteur dramatiques (SoQAD)
Caribbean
- http://www.eccorights.org/ Eastern Caribbean Collective Organisation for Music Rights (ECCO)]
- http://www.cott.org.tt/ Copyright Organisation of Trinidad & Tobago (COTT)]
- http://coscap.org/corporate/about-coscap Copyright Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Incorporated (COSCAP)]
- Jamaica Music Society (JAMMS)
http://www.jacapjamaica.com/ Jamaica Association of Composers, Authors and Publishers Limited (JACAP)]
Mexico
United States
- Artists Rights Society of New York (ARS)
- ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- 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
South America
Argentina
- AADI (Asociación Argentina de Intérpretes)
- ARGENTORES (Sociedad General de Autores de la Argentina)
- CADRA (Centro de Administración de Derechos Reprográficos de la República Argentina).
- Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música (SADAIC)
- CAPIF (Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas).
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation South America
- SADAFO (Sociedad Argentina de Autores Fotográficos)
- SAGAI (Sociedad Argentina de Actores e Intérpretes).
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
- Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Colombia SAYCO y la Asociación Colombiana de Intérpretes y Productores Fonográficos ACINPRO
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation South America
Peru
Middle East
Armenia
Israel
- ACUM representing authors, composers, lyricists, poets, arrangers and music publishers.
- ESHKOLOT representing performers.
- TALI, the Israeli Scriptwriters & Directors Collecting society.
Turkey
- MSG (Musical Work Owners Group)
- MESAM (Türkiye Musiki Eseri Sahipleri Meslek Birligi)
- MÜ-YAP (Turkish Phonographic Industry Society)
- MÜYORBİR (Müzik Yorumcuları Birliği)
Oceania
Australasia
- Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS)
- 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 (Audio-Visual Collecting Society Ltd)
- VISCOPY Australia
New Zealand
- Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL)
- Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI) New Zealand
- Christian Video Licensing International New Zealand
- PPNZ Music Licensing
- APRA New Zealand