Performance Rights Organizations List
Asia
Azerbaijan
- Copyright Agency of Azerbaijan Republic (Azərbaycan Respublikası Müəllif Hüquqları Agentliyi)
China
Georgia
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
Kazakhstan
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
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)
- 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)
- 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
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
- 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)
The Netherlands
- Buma/Stemra
- SENA
- Musicopy
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
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)
- 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
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