Collecting Societies

Global
Asia

Azerbaijan
- Copyright Agency of Azerbaijan Republic (Azərbaycan Respublikası Müəllif Hüquqları Agentliyi)
China
- Music Copyright Society of China (MCSC)
India
- Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation (IRRO)
- Phonographic Performance Limited India (PPL India)
Hong Kong
- Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Ltd. (CASH)
Japan

Music
- Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) – Largest CMO in Japanese music industries.
- NexTone Inc. [ja] – Merged between Japan Rights Clearance Inc. [ja] and e-License in 2016.
- Music People’s Nest [ja] (MPN)
Visual arts
- Japan Art, Photograph and Graphic Art Copyright Organization [ja] (APG-Japan) – A member of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers.
- Japanese Society for Protecting Artists’ Rights [ja] (JASPAR) – Non-Japanese visual arts such as Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí and Le Corbusier.
- Société pour la Protection des Droits Artistiques [ja] (SPDA) – Handles works of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Downsized after the JASPAR’s spin-off in 2012.
- Japan Photographic Copyright Association [ja] (JPCA) – Represents ten photographic business associations such as Japan Professional Photographers Society.
Videos
- audiovisual Rights management association [ja] (aRma) – Established by Japan Association of Music Enterprises [ja], Federation of Music Producers Japan [ja], Geidankyo [ja] (meaning consortium of entertainment performers associations of Japan).
- Performers’ Rights Entrustment [ja] (PRE) – Collects licensing fees of TV programs.
Publications
- Japan Publishing Copyright Association [ja] (JPCA) – Issued a strong statement against Google Book Search Settlement Agreement.
- Japan Reproduction Rights Center [ja] (JRRC) – Mainly on behalf of paper-based publishers.
- Rental Rights Administration Center for Publications [ja] (RRAC)
Philippines
- Filipino Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (FILSCAP)
Russia
- 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)
South Korea
- Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA)^[1]
Africa

Ghana
- Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO)
Kenya
- Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK)
South Africa
- Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO)
Uganda
- Uganda Performing Right Society
Zambia
- Zambian music Copyright Protection Society (ZAMCOPS)
Europe
- Association of European Performers’ Organisations AEPO-ARTIS
Belgium
- Société d’Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij (SABAM)
Croatia
- Croatian Composers’ Society
Cyprus
- PRS for Music, formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance
Czech Republic
- DILIA (Divadelní, literární, audiovizuální agentura)
- Ochranný svaz autorský
- INTERGRAM (INTERGRAM, nezávislá společnost výkonných umělců a výrobců zvukových a zvukově-obrazových záznamů)
- OOA-S (Ochranná organizace autorská – Sdružení autorů děl výtvarného umění, architektury a obrazové složky audiovizuálních děl)
- OAZA (Ochranná asociace zvukařů – autorů)
Denmark
- Gramex [da]
- KODA
- Nordisk Copyright Bureau
Finland
- Teosto (authors and composers of musical works)
France
- Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD)
- Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM)
- Société de la Propriété Artistique et des Dessins et Modèles (SPADEM), visual artists – defunct
- Société des Auteurs Dans Les Arts Graphiques et Plastiques (ADAGP), visual artists
- Syndicat National de l’Édition Phonographique (SNEP), the National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing
- Organisme de gestion collective des droits des artistes-interprètes (ADAMI), for performers
- Société de Perception et de Distribution des Droits des Artistes-Interprètes (SPEDIDAM), for performers
Germany
Greece
- GEA-GRAMMO, ERATO, APOLLON [el]: Producers, Musicians, Singers (neighboring rights).
Republic of Ireland
- Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO)
Italy
- Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (SIAE)
The Netherlands
- Buma/Stemra
Norway
- TONO (Copyright collective for authors and composers of musical works)
Poland

There are twelve officially recognized copyright collection societies in Poland:
- ZAiKS (Polish Society of Authors and Composers)
- ZPAV (Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry)
- ZPAP (Association of Polish Artists and Designers)
Portugal
- Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores (SPA)
Slovakia
- SOZA (Slovak Performing Rights Society)
Sweden
- Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå (Stim) (Swedish Performing Rights Society)
- IFPI Sweden – International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (Swedish Society of Music Companies)
Switzerland
Ukraine
- Ukrainian Agency of Copyright and Related Rights (UACRR)
United Kingdom
- Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS)
- Artists’ Collecting Society (ACS)
- Christian Copyright 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)
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)
- PRS for Music, formerly MCPS-PRS Alliance
- Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL)
- Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS)
Middle East

Israel
- Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel (ACUM) (performance rights society, representing authors, poets, lyricists, composers, arrangers, and music publishers)
- Tali Rights, the Israeli Scriptwriters & Directors Collecting society
Turkey
- Müzik Yorumcuları Birliği (MÜYORBİR)
Lebanon
- Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM)
North America

Further information: Performance rights organisation § Organizations

Canada
- Access Copyright – The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (formerly CanCopy)
- American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM)
- Canadian Artists’ Representation Copyright Collective (CARCC)
- Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency Ltd (CMRRA Ltd)
- Canadian Private Copying Collective (CPCC)
- Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC) (formerly Playwrights Union of Canada)
- Re:Sound Music Licensing Company
- Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD)
- Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)
United States
- AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights Distribution Fund
- AllTrack (AllTrack Performing Rights), a US-based performance right organization
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
- Artists Rights Society
- BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.)
- Christian Copyright Licensing International
- Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
- Harry Fox Agency, a US-based music rights agency
- Mechanical Licensing Collective (the MLC), the US based mechanical rights organization designated by the US Copyright Office.^[2]
- Music Reports, a US-based music rights licensing company
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC)
- SESAC, a US-based performance rights association
- SoundExchange, a digital performance rights association (non-interactive radio)
South America

Argentina
- Sociedad Argentina de Autores y Compositores de Música (SADAIC)
Brazil
- Escritório Central de Arrecadação e Distribuição (ECAD)
- Motion Picture Licensing Corporation Brasil
Oceania

Australasia
- Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS)
- Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)
Australia
- Australian Writers Guild Authorship Collecting Society (AWGACS)
- Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)
- Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA)
- Screenrights: The Audio Visual Copyright Society (Audio-Visual Collecting Society Ltd)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_collection_societies