"collecting societies" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to organizations that collect royalties for music creators and publishers, such as the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). For example: "ASCAP is one of the world's largest collecting societies, responsible for collecting royalties for musical works performed publicly."
The company plans to release a plug-and-play hardware product to simplify the data collection and help collecting societies to redistribute the correct amount to the correct artists.
In 1941 the Justice Department issued what's known as the Consent Decree, which allowed performing-rights organizations (P.R.O.s, or collecting societies) to process the licensing fees for large numbers of songwriters, collectively, for obvious reasons of efficiency.
Baboom intends to assure labels and collecting societies they will be appropriately recompensed for all material used.
SoundCloud Go launched in the US in March after lengthy negotiations with labels, music publishers and collecting societies.
"If I have enemies — and I assure you it is a long list — on that list are collecting societies," Ms. Kroes said.
This battle isn't about YouTube being unlicensed: it has struck deals with labels, publishers and collecting societies to share revenues from advertising around their music, paying out more than $3bn so far to the industry.
We received the same treatment years ago during its negotiations with the not-for-profit songwriters' collecting society PRS.
iPhone / iPad M is the official magazine for songwriters and musicians from collecting society PRS for Music.
A collecting society, like the agencies that gather royalties on behalf of musicians, would collect the payments and distribute the money owed to publishers.
The pianist, following a request from a member of the audience, played "Zip-a-dee doo-dah', composed by a member of ASCAP, another collecting society.
"Could every blog register with the collecting society that is to be founded?" wrote Thierry Chervel, co-founder of Perlentaucher, a German cultural Web site.
