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Readings & Reference

Key institutional resources and a curated library of academic scholarship on collective management of copyright and related rights.

Key Organizations

Institutions

CISAC ↗IFRRO ↗WIPO ↗

CISAC (International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers) is the global network of authors' societies.

IFRRO (International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations) represents reproduction rights organizations worldwide.

WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) is the United Nations agency responsible for global IP policy.

WIPO Publications

WIPO Reference Materials

Featured — Latest Edition

WIPO Good Practice Toolkit for Collective Management Organizations (January 2025)

WIPO

Available in 7 languages (English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese). Covers good practices in legislation, regulation, and codes of conduct for CMOs worldwide, with extensive links to national legislation.

Copyright Collective Management in Music

Ulrich Uchtenhagen — WIPO

Scholarship

Academic Articles & Book Chapters

The following articles and book chapters are available on SSRN and other open-access repositories. Links open directly to the relevant page.

Study on Emerging Issues on Collective Licensing Practices in the Digital Environment

Oleksandr Bulayenko, Stef van Gompel, Christian Handke, Roel Peeters, Joost Poort & David Regeczi

Final Report for DG CNECT, European Commission, SMART 2018/0069 (November 2021)

Proposal for a Directive on Collective Rights Management and (Some) Multiterritorial Licensing

João Pedro Quintais

European Intellectual Property Review (2013)

Assessing the Feasibility of Collective Licensing of In-Copyright Works as Training Data for Generative AI Systems

Pamela Samuelson

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (forthcoming, 2026)

Challenges and Opportunities of China's Copyright Collective Management in the New Era

Lin Xiuqin & Xuan Wang

Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., vol. 69 (2022)

Collective Management in the European Union

Lucie Guibault & Stef van Gompel

in Gervais (ed.), Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, 3rd ed., Kluwer, 2015, pp. 139–174

Collective Management of Copyrights and the EU Principle of Free Movement of Services after the OSA Judgment — In Favour of a More Balanced Approach

Josef Drexl

in Purnhagen & Rott (eds.), Varieties of European Economic Law and Regulation, Springer, 2014, pp. 459–487

Governing Collective Rights Management of Copyright Protected Resources, or How Building Upon Copyright Collectivization

Anne-Catherine Lorrain

First Thematic Conference on the Knowledge Commons, IASC (2014)

Collective Copyright Management and Digitization: The European Experience

Reto Hilty & Sylvie Nérisson

in Towse & Handke (eds.), Handbook on the Digital Creative Economy, Edward Elgar, 2013, pp. 222–234

Introduction to Copyright and Collective Management in Competition Law

Jorg Sladic

LeXonomica, vol. V, no. 1, pp. 37–50 (2013)

Review of Universities and Copyright Collecting Societies

Benjamin J. Keele

International Journal of Legal Information, vol. 38, no. 2, p. 239 (2010)

Economics of Copyright Collecting Societies

Christian Handke & Ruth Towse

International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 937–957 (2007)

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