Music licensing organizations

SNEP (, in English National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing) is the inter-professional organisation that protects the interests of the French record industry. Originally known under the acronym SNICOP, the organisation was established in 1922 and has 48 member companies.

non-profit performance-rights organization

performing rights organization in the United States

thumb|Façade of 10 Rue Chaptal, first home of SACEM

Japanese rights society

German rights society

organization

The Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE) is a non-profit collective management organization in the form of a public economic entity with an associative basis, responsible for protecting intellectual works and managing copyright intermediation in Italy.

South Korean non-profit copyright collective for musical works

thumb|The office in Stockholm STIM, Svenska Tonsättares Internationella Musikbyrå (Swedish Performing Rights Society), is a Swedish collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers. Its role is to act as an agent for its members in order to collect license fees whenever their musical works are performed in public, broadcast or transmitted, and to pay out performing royalties.

British music rights society

Canadian rights society

international organization representing mechanical rights societies

Teosto (Finnish: Säveltäjäin Tekijänoikeustoimisto Teosto r.y.) is a non-profit performance rights organization that collects royalties on behalf of songwriters and composers in Finland. Teosto is a member of the Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d'Auteurs et Compositeurs (CISAC). It represents 29 000 Finnish, and nearly three million foreign composers, songwriters, arrangers and publishers. The organization's clients are 29,000 music-using companies and communities.

thumb|A censored photo of the Atomium in Brussels (2006). At the time there was no [[freedom of panorama in Belgium, so an image of the sculpture could not be displayed without permission from SABAM or the Atomium Association. It was also necessary to mention "copyright vzw/asbl Atomium".]] SABAM is one of the Belgian associations of authors, composers and publishers. The bilingual acronym stands for "Société d'Auteurs Belge – Belgische Auteurs Maatschappij". Their headquarters is located at 41-43 rue des Deux Eglises in Brussels. As of 2023, SABAM had over 48,000 members. In 2023, SABAM distr

thumb|BUMA/STEMRA office in Hoofddorp, North Holland BUMA/STEMRA are two private organisations in the Netherlands, the Buma Association (Dutch: Vereniging Buma) and the Stemra Foundation (Dutch: Stichting Stemra) that operate as one single company that acts as the Dutch collecting society for composers and music publishers.

British music licensing company

SUISA is the cooperative society for music authors in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The Swiss Cooperative Society for Music Authors and Publishers (; ; ) or Swiss Society for the Rights of Authors of Musical Works (; ; ), commonly known as SUISA (from , "Switzerland Authors"), is the collecting society for Swiss songwriters, composers and music publishers.

Israeli rights society