Authors’ societies & the collective management model

We encounter all kinds of users in our daily life. They make use of music, visual arts or other types of creative works as either the main purpose of their business or to enrich their services. They could be online music services or bars and restaurants, VoD services or TV and radio, to name but a few.

Educational institutions, cultural heritage organisations, public entities, as well as many other public interest institutions also use creative works as part of their public service. They all need the legal certainty and easy rights clearance for the daily use of creative works.

*Users refers to any platform, business, institution, or organisation that requires a licence for its use of creative works protected by authors’ right/copyright laws.

Easy rights clearance with fair remuneration to creators also enables all services to offer their consumers, and the public at large, access to any creative works wherever and whenever they want.

Authors’ societies enable creators to manage their rights without being coerced by big media conglomerates or giant tech platforms. Entrusting part of their right to their societies, authors are empowered to make the best professional decision about who their partners are in the sector, knowing that the money collected by societies is paid back to rightsholders in direct proportion with the use made of their work.

To provide the most efficient and effective service to their members, authors’ societies provide a high level of transparency in their operations and invest in state-of-the-art technologies that enable a quick, accurate and secure ways to manage rights information.

Some authors’ societies provide pensions and financial help for creators facing difficulties while all promote cultural diversity and the development of new generations of creators through the financing of cultural activities.