What is a copyright collective?
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鈥檚 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
Different rights, different organizations
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鈥檙e not sure which organization to contact for authorization or have a question, visit our Who to contact section.
- South Africa / Dramatic, Artistic and Literary Rights Organisation (DALRO)
- Germany / VG Wort
- Argentina / Centro de Administraci贸n de Derechos Reprogr谩ficos (CADRA)
- Australia / Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)
- Belgium / REPROBEL
- Brasil / Associa莽茫o Brasileira De Direitos Reprogr谩ficos (ABDR)
- Canada / Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright)
- Colombia聽/ Centro Colombiano de Derechos Reprogr谩ficos
- Korea聽/ Korea Literature, Academic works and Art Copyright Association (KOLAA)
- Danemark / Copy-Dan
- Spain / Centro Espanol de Derechos Reprogr脿ficos (CEDRO)
- United States of America / Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
- France / Centre fran莽ais d鈥檈xploitation du droit de copie (CFC)
- Greece / The Greek Collecting Society for Literary Works (OSDEL)
- Hong Kong / Hong Kong Reprographic Rights Licensing Society (HKRRLS)
- Irelande / The Irish Copyright Licensing Agency, Ltd. (ICLA)
- Iceland / Fj枚l铆s
- Italy / Centro Licenze e Autorizzazioni per le Riproduzioni Editoriali (EDISER)
- Italy / Societ脿 Italiana degli Autori ed Editori (SIAE)
- Mauritius / Mauritius Rights Management Society (MRMS)
- Jamaica / JAMCOPY, Jamaican Copyright Licensing Agency
- Japan /聽Japan Academic Association for Copyright Clearance (JAC)
- Mexico / Centro Mexicano de Protecci贸n y Fomento a los Derechos de Autor, SGC (CeMPro)
- Norway / Kopinor
- New Zealand / Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ)
- Low Countries / Stichting Reprorecht (SR)
- United Kingdom / The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)
- United Kingdom /聽NLA Media Access Limited (NLA)
- Singapore / The Copyright Licensing & Administration Society of Singapore Limited (CLASS)
- Switzerland and Principality of Liechtenstein聽/ Pro Litteris
- La Sofia, Soci茅t茅 fran莽aise des int茅r锚ts des auteurs de l鈥櫭ヽrit