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largely non-profit organisations that are established by creators to facilitate the management of their rights. As it is very difficult for an individual creator to monitor all uses of their work and negotiate payment for these uses, many choose to entrust their rights to an authors' society. An authors' society's primary activities is to grant licenses and collect royalties and distribute royalties to the right holders for the use of their works.
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Through this system of agreements, a content user (e.g. a radio broadcaster or a night club) can obtain a single license from their local authors' society for use of the worldwide repertoire of creative works. This makes it possible for creators to receive royalties for uses of their works all over
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against a group of authors' societies in Europe. It specifically concerned performance rights in music repertoires and the relationship between authors' societies managing rights in music content. The proceedings focused on specific provisions in the reciprocal representation agreements signed
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179:playwrights
1066:Categories
1025:2011-12-26
924:Music Dish
569:Including:
425:Committees
352:Membership
236:songwriter
59:improve it
49:verifiable
986:Billboard
735:Billboard
668:Copyright
240:publisher
132:royalties
63:citations
962:Archived
939:Archived
901:Archived
819:Archived
652:See also
259:Bee Gees
190:licenses
173:Founding
147:Santiago
143:Budapest
123:(PROs).
75:May 2015
827:IDA-net
367:Funding
297:Swedish
168:History
155:Beijing
53:neutral
1004:, 2008
1002:Europa
988:, 2015
972:, 2014
949:, 2014
926:, 2014
909:Unesco
862:, 2013
806:, 2004
787:, 2002
753:, 2016
737:, 2015
445:UNESCO
335:, and
281:, and
103:French
410:SOCAN
112:CISAC
97:The
51:and
804:BMI
785:ISO
238:or
65:to
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1000:,
984:,
968:,
945:,
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907:,
885:,
858:,
825:,
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792:^
783:,
749:,
733:,
721:^
339:.
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277:,
273:,
109:,
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