Readings & Reference

Key Organizations

Institutions

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.

Reference Book

WIPO Publication

• Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights, Third Edition (2022)
  WIPO — freely available online

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.

• 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)
• Collective Management of Copyrights and Human Rights in an Age of Technological Automation
  Laurence R. Helfer & Giulia Priora (2024)
• The Use of Artificial Intelligence by Collective Societies and Its Compliance with EU Copyright Law
  Giulia Priora, Amanda Costa Novaes & Marisa Frade (2024)
• Reimagining Copyright Collective Management for Nigerian Creators: Learning from International Models
  Kunle Ola & Faith O. Majekolagbe — Australian Journal (2024)
• 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)
• Valuation of Intellectual Property Rights — Copyrights to Audiovisual Works: An International Comparison of Copyright Management Organizations
  Pawel Kossecki, Oguzhan Akin & Jacek Wachowicz (2022)
• The Future of Music Copyright Collectives in the Digital Streaming Age
  Eric Priest (2022)
• Collective Management Systems for Copyright and Related Rights in Latin America in Selected Countries
  Reto Hilty & Gonzalo Nazar (2024)
• Transitional Collective Management of Copyrights in Kenya: Legal, Policy and Administrative Reforms
  Brandon Omondi Ouma (2021)
• Collective Management of Musical Copyright in a Self-Regulated Regime: Singapore's Copyright Review and the Hope for Transparency
  Eu-Yen Tay — Singapore Academy of Law Journal (2020)
• Collective Management of Copyright in Nigeria: Should It Remain Voluntary, May It Be Mandatory or Extended?
  Desmond Oriakhogba (2019)
• Collective Management Organizations as Fiduciaries and Blockchain's Potential for Copyright Management
  George Bouchagiar (2018)
• The Role of Collective Management Organizations in the Evolution of the Nigerian Music Industry
  Michelle Esohe Emokpae (2018)
• 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
• From Soulier to the EU Copyright Law Reform: What Future for Non-Voluntary Collective Management Schemes?
  Caterina Sganga (2018)
• Permissibility of Non-Voluntary Collective Management of Copyright Under EU Law: The Case of the French Law on Out-of-Commerce Books
  Oleksandr Bulayenko — JIPITEC, vol. 7(1), 2016
• Exploring the Competition Dynamics of Copyright Collective Management Towards Restructuring of Musical Copyright Administration in Nigeria
  Desmond Oriakhogba — National Open University of Nigeria Law Journal, vol. 3 (2019)
• Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights in Kenya: Towards an Effective Legal Framework for Regulation of Collecting Societies
  Victor Nzomo (2017)
• Practices of Collective Management of Copyright on Musical Works and Related Rights on Audio-Video Products in China
  Wenting Cheng & Zonghui Li (2017)
• Collective Agreements for the Clearance of Copyrights — The Case of Collective Management and Extended Collective Licenses
  Thomas Riis, Ole Andreas Rognstad & Jens Schovsbo (2015)
• The Efficiencies of Aggregation: An Economic Theory Perspective on Collective Management of Copyright
  Richard Watt (2015)
• Joint Copyrights Management by Collecting Societies and Online Platforms: An Economic Analysis
  Christian Handke (2015)
• 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)
• Copyright Collective Administration in Nigeria: Lessons for Africa
  Kunle Ola — SpringerBriefs in Law (2013)
• On Peers and Copyright: Why the EU Should Consider Collective Management of P2P
  João Pedro Quintais (2013)
• The Economics of Collective Copyright Management
  Christian Handke (2013)
• 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)
• Copyright Collective Management in the 21st Century from a Competition Law Perspective
  Yee Wah Chin (2013)
• Copyright Collective Licensing and the EU Initiatives in the Online Music Field
  Enrico Bonadio (2010)
• Review of Universities and Copyright Collecting Societies
  Benjamin J. Keele — International Journal of Legal Information, vol. 38, no. 2, p. 239 (2010)
• Antitrust and Copyright Collectives — An Economic Analysis
  Adrianna Zablocka (2010)
• Should China Adopt an Extended Licensing System to Facilitate Collective Copyright Administration: Preliminary Thoughts
  Jia Wang (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)
• Access and Reward in the Information Society: Regulating the Collective Management of Copyright
  Martin Kretschmer — CIPPM Working Paper (2007)
• Economic Functions of Collecting Societies — Collective Rights Management in the Light of Transaction Cost and Information Economics
  Gerd Hansen & Albrecht Bischoffshausen (2006)