1.0Digital Music Newshttps://www.digitalmusicnews.comPaul Resnikoffhttps://www.digitalmusicnews.com/author/presnikoff/We're the Cultural Commons Collecting Society, an Alternative to GEMA, PRS, and SACEM... - Digital Music Newsrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><a href="https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2013/07/17/society/">We’re the Cultural Commons Collecting Society, an Alternative to GEMA, PRS, and SACEM…</a></blockquote>
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</script><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2013/07/17/society/embed/" width="600" height="338" title="“We’re the Cultural Commons Collecting Society, an Alternative to GEMA, PRS, and SACEM…” — Digital Music News" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe>European collection societies are often notorious bulldogs, but they also seem to bite everyone. Groups like PRS for Music in the UK and GEMA in Germany often impose strict exclusivity clauses over artists, while making cross-border licensing a multi-year, bankrupt-inducing headache. And don’t even get started on licensing crackdowns… All of which brings us to […]https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/c3s.jpg