A collecting society offers a centralized solution for managing the copyrights. As a collecting society, Copibec acts as a single point of contact for the rights of authors and their publishers. It is able to grant licenses enabling legal access to thousands of works, while ensuring fair remuneration for creators.

Here’s what copyright collectives do on a day-to-day basis:

• Negotiate agreements with user groups and individual users
• Respond to requests to use content
• Analyze thousands of user log entries
• Collect royalties for content use and redistribute them to authors and publishers
• Ensure compliance with existing agreements
• Enhance awareness about copyright compliance
  
  

Copyright covers a wide variety of creations, which explains the presence of several collective societies in Quebec and Canada, each specializing in a particular type of right, such as music or theater. If you’re not sure which organization to contact for authorization or have a question, visit our Who to contact section.