Sentence examples for collection societies from inspiring English sources

While the ability to negotiate with music services directly may be advantageous for EMI and the writers they represent when negotiating rates – it is the world's largest publisher of popular music – it reduces any collective bargaining power that collection societies such as ASCAP have had.

Does the publisher have an international network to collect money abroad via sub-publishing agreements or via membership of overseas collection societies?

In the EU these collection societies are vastly different.

Do they have to get affiliated with up to 52 collection societies?

There are thousands of songs with the same titles registered with collection societies around the world.

Then the EU decided there should be competition between European collection societies.

In the UK, the collection society PPL, collects performance royalties for the people who perform on the records.

In the same year, PRS for Music, a UK copyright collection society and performance rights organisation which collects royalties on behalf of songwriters and composers, named "Can't Get You Out of My Head" the "Most Popular Song of the Decade" as it received the highest airplay and live covers in the 2000s.

Fran Nevrkla, head of the royalty collection society PPL, says the FAC's claims are "grossly naive and desperately damaging".

Each major publisher chose a collection society to represent it in Europe, and formed a new licensing company with them, instead of being represented by the local collection society in each country.

In this context Thursday's news from Australia's publishing and mechanical royalties collection society is heartening.