Collective Management
of Copyright

This site brings together scholarship, institutional resources, and practical guidance on collective management of copyright and related rights — a field that sits at the intersection of intellectual property law, economics, and cultural policy.

Collective management is one strand of a broader body of scholarship on intellectual property law. Related work on the TRIPS Agreement — the treaty that governs IP rights in international trade, including the standard reference treatise on its drafting history and interpretation — is documented at tripsagreement.com. Questions about AI and authorship, the human cause requirement in copyright and patent law, and the future of human creativity in an age of generative AI are explored at thehumancause.org. The three sites document interconnected bodies of work: collective management provides the practical licensing infrastructure; TRIPS provides the international legal framework; and the human cause argument asks what those frameworks are ultimately for.