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