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PRACTICE NOTES
Collecting societies
This Practice Note explores collecting societies-often described as licensing bodies and/or Collective Management Organisations (CMOs)-and also considers Independent Management Entities (IMEs). It covers collective licensing, the legal and organisational status of a collecting society, an outline of UK societies, the benefits for copyright owners, disadvantages for right holders and users, the pros and cons for licensees, legal constraints on how societies operate, regulation of collecting societies, and the Collective Management of Copyright (EU Directive) Regulations 2016, SI 2016/221, also referred to as the Collective Rights Management Regulations or the CRM Regulations.
These frameworks give right holders a collective route to licence and enforce their IP where individual permissions and monitoring would be impractical. Although several societies may function within the same creative field (such as music), separate bodies will generally represent different categories of right holders.
In essence, a collecting society will:
offer
IP
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