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Authors Societies and Rights Organizations from around the world are on the web…

To visit their websites... click on their name or logo on the list below.

ALCS
Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society

Australasia

AMCOS
The Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners' Society

Australian

APRA The Australian Performing Rights Association

Belgium

SABAM
The Belgian Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers

Brazil

UBC
Uniao Brasileira de Compositores

BIEM
BIEM, created in 1929, is an international organization that groups together societies all over the world that have as a purpose the administration of mechanical rights, in order to assure effective and efficient administration of those rights. Currently, BIEM has 32 member societies in 30 countries.

Britain

MCPS
The British Mechanical Copyright Protection Society Limited

Canada

CMRRA
The Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency

SOCAN
Society of Authors, Composers, and Music Publishers of Canada

CISAC
CISAC, (International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies), was founded in Paris in 1926, where its registered office still resides. CISAC is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation, which regroups some 200 author societies in 98 countries. World-wide, it represents 2 million creators of works in the musical, dramatic, literary, and audio-visual arts, as well as in the graphic and plastic arts.

Chile

SCD
Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de autor

Colombia

SAYCO
Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de Colombia (Colombian Society of Composers)

Denmark

KODA
The Denmark Music Copyright Organization

Finland

TEOSTO
Finnish Composers' Copyright Society

France

SACD
The Society of Authors and Composers of Dramatic Works in France

SACEM
France's Society of Authors, Composers, and Music Publishers

Hungaria

ARTISJUS
The Hungarian Bureau for the Protection of Authors' Rights

Germany

GEMA
The German Society For Musical Performing Rights And Mechanical Reproduction Rights

Ireland

IMRO
The Irish Music Rights Organization

Italy

SIAE
Italian Society of Authors and Publishers

Japan

JASRAC
The Japanese Music Copyright Organization

Netherlands

BUMA / STEMRA / CEDAR
The Netherlands Copyright Organizations

NCB
Nordisk Copyright Bureau

Norway

Portugal

SPA
Portuguese Authors Society

Spain

SGAE
Spain's General Society of Composers and Publishers

Switzerland

SSA
Swiss Society of Authors

SUISA
Swiss Authors' Copyright Society

Trinidad and Tobago

COTT
The Copyright Organization of Trinidad and Tobago

United Kingdom

PRS
The U.K. Performing Right Society

Venezuela

SACVEN
The Society of Authors and Composers of Venezuela