Collective management of copyright directive (2014/26/EU)
Print this pageDirective 2014/26/EU of the European parliament and of the council of 26 February 2014 on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online use in the internal market.
TITLE I - General Provisions
TITLE II - Collective Management Organisations
CHAPTER 1- Representation of rightholders and membership and organisation of collective management organisations
Article 4 - General principles
Article 5 - Rights of rightholders
Article 6 - Membership rules of collective management organisations
Article 7 - Rights of rightholders who are not members of the collective management organisation
Article 8 - General assembly of members of the collective management organisation
Article 9 - Supervisory function
CHAPTER 2 - Management of rights revenue
Article 11 - Collection and use of rights revenue
Article 13 - Distribution of amounts due to rightholders
CHAPTER 3 - Management of rights on behalf of other collective management organisations
Article 14 - Rights managed under representation agreements
Article 15 - Deductions and payments in representation agreements
CHAPTER 4 - Relations with users
Article 17 - Users’ obligations
CHAPTER 5 - Transparency and reporting
Article 18 - Information provided to rightholders on the management of their rights
Article 21 - Disclosure of information to the public
Article 22 - Annual transparency report
TITLE III - Multi-Territorial licensing of online rights in musical works by collective management organisations
Article 23 - Multi-territorial licensing in the internal market
Article 24 - Capacity to process multi-territorial licences
Article 25 - Transparency of multi-territorial repertoire information
Article 26 - Accuracy of multi-territorial repertoire information
Article 27 - Accurate and timely reporting and invoicing
Article 28 - Accurate and timely payment to rightholders
Article 29 - Agreements between collective management organisations for multi-territorial licensing
Article 31 - Access to multi-territorial licensing
Article 32 - Derogation for online music rights required for radio and television programmes
TITLE IV - Enforcement Measures
Article 33 - Complaints procedures
Article 34 - Alternative dispute resolution procedures
Article 35 - Dispute resolution
Article 37 - Exchange of information between competent authorities
Article 38 - Cooperation for the development of multi-territorial licensing
TITLE V - Reporting and final provisions
Article 39 - Notification of collective management organisations
Article 42 - Protection of personal data
Text in force at 01-04-2022. The text can be verified at EUR-LEX. Titles of articles have been added for convenience, but are lacking in the official text, IP-PorTal.
