Copyright Collectives and Collecting Societies: The United States Experiences

Authors

Glynn S. Lunney Jr, Texas A&M University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Book Section

Publication Date

11-2015

ISBN

9789041154415

Abstract

In the course of the last two decades, collective management organizations (CMOs) have become the nerve centres of copyright licensing in virtually every country. Their expertise and knowledge of copyright law and management have proven essential to make copyright work in the digital age. However, they have also been at the centre of debates about their efficiency, their transparency and their governance. This book, an extensively revised and updated edition of the major work on the legal status of CMOs, offers an in-depth analysis of the various operating CMO models, their rights and obligations vis-à-vis both users and members, acquisition of legal authority to license, and (most important) the rights to license digital uses of protected material and build (or improve current) information systems to deal with ever more complex rights management and licensing tasks.

First Page

319

Last Page

366

Num Pages

48

Publisher

Kluwer Law International

Editor

Daniel Gervais

Book Title

Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights

Edition

3d

Recommended Citation

Glynn S. Lunney Jr, Copyright Collectives and Collecting Societies: The United States Experiences, in Collective Management of Copyright and Related Rights 319 (Daniel Gervais eds., 3d ed. 2015).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/896