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Rights & Royalties Organizations

Music can generate revenue through public performances or others licensing it for different uses (someone recording a cover version of your song for an album). There are a lot of large organizations that collect, manage, and distribute these royalties to its members.

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Harry Fox N/A Harry Fox is a US-based society that handles mechanical rights for songwriters.
ASCAP N/A ASCAP is one of the three major performance rights organizations in the US.
AKKA-LAA N/A Performing rights society in Latvia.
Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies N/A A non-profit organization that represents and collects royalties for artists and recording companies in the areas of hometaping and private copy and rental royalties.
APRA/AMCOS N/A The Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA) collects licensing fees for public performances. The Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) collects and distributes mechanical royalties.
Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) N/A Society that collects royalties for UK writers.
BIEM N/A An international mechanical rights society that is based in France.
BMI Performance Rights Organization N/A BMI is one of the three major performance rights organization in the US.
BUMA/STEMRA N/A The organizations that protect copyright and collect and distribute royalties for music authors in the Netherlands.
CISAC N/A The International Confederation Of Societies Of Authors And Composers is based in France collects royalties and serves as a network for 222 authors’ societies from 118 countries.
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