AKM
Autoren, Komponisten und Musikverleger
Baumanstrasse 10
Postfach 55
A - 1031 Wien
Tel: +43 1 717 14 0
Fax: +43 1 717 14 107
Email: direktion@akm.co.at
Website: http://www.akm.co.at/

AKM is the oldest and biggest copyright society in Austria and stands for Autoren (authors), Komponisten (composers) and Musikverleger (music publishers). The full name is: Staatlich genehmigte Gesellschaft der Autoren, Komponisten und Musikverleger reg. Gen.m.b.H.
AKM is a service company for music authors and organisers alike: through AKM music authors and their publishers easily receive the fees for the utilisation (public performance and broadcasting) of their works. Organisers can acquire the necessary authorisations for the entire world repertoire of music through AKM. Currently AKM has 14 000 members.

Austro Mechana
Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung mechanisch- musikalischer Urheberrechte
/ Society For The Protection Of Mechanical Musical Copyrights
Baumanstrasse 10
Postfach 55
A - 1031 Wien
Tel: +43 1 717 87
Fax: +43 1 712 71 36
Email: office@aume.at
Website: http://www.mica.at/

Austro Mechana is the copyright society which administers the "mechanical" rights in musical works of its members (currently 13 500 composers, authors and publishers). It operates in Austria as well as in conjunction with collecting societies administering mechanical rights all over the world. Its main activity is the collection and distribution of royalties for the use of music on a variety of audio and audiovisual carriers - including CDs, MCs, videos, CD-Rom, DVDs. It also collects and distributes royalties for recordings and re-recordings made for or by broadcasting stations for Radio and TV. The online field of activity of Austro Mechana concerns the storage and the downloading of music in/from the net, e.g. mobile phone ringtones.
Furthermore Austro Mechana deals with the collection of the blank tape levy for all the right-owners in Austria. Part of Austro Mechana's share of the blank tape levy income is used for social and cultural purposes.

CONAMUS
Foundation to promote Dutch music
Vaartweg, 32
Postbus 929
NL - 1200 Ax Hilversum
Tel. +31 35 621 87 48
Fax +31 35 621 27 50
Email: info@conamus.nl
Website: http://www.conamus.nl/

The Conamus Foundation was founded in 1962 to assist in furthering the work of Dutch music creators, to promote Dutch-penned material and to encourage the performance of Dutch popular music in Holland and abroad. Conamus is a non-profit subsidiary of the Buma author's rights organization and maintains close contacts with all relevant parties in the Dutch music branch. Covering all types of light and pop music ranging from metal and dance to mainstream and cabaret, the only genres not covered by Conamus are jazz and classical.

BEMF
Bureau Export de la Musique Française
/ French Music Export Office
2, rue de la Roquette
Passage du Cheval Blanc
Cour d'Avril
3ème étage droit
F - 75011 Paris
Tel: +33 1 4929 5227
Fax: +33 1 4929 5224
Email: burex@french-music.org
Website: http://www.french-music.org/

The French Music Export Office was created in 1993, on the initiative of record producers, with the support of public authorities and music industry professional organisations. Its mission is to promote French music abroad through varied programs of information, co-ordination, communication and commercial networking between its partners in France and the rest of the world.
The Export Office is also devoted to the creation of a European policy for the music industry by developing exchanges between the different musical cultures. BEMF has created a network of French Music Offices in Germany, the USA, the UK and Brazil.
Currently the BEMF has 42 members.

EFA-AEF
European Festivals Association / Association européene des festivals
Kleine Gentstraat 46
B-9051 Gent – Belgium
Email: info@efa-aef.org
Website: http://www.efa-aef.org/

EFA-AEF aims to promote the significance and reputation of European music festivals, and to encourage international co-operation among these festivals and other similar organisations and institutions. Furthermore, EFA-AEF wishes to represent music festivals in national and international organisations. It aims to establish a common working practice amongst artists, visitors and authorities alike. Today a total of 90 music festivals are members of EFA-AEF.

EMMEN (European Modern Music Education Network)
9 Rue Paul Emile Janson
B-1050 Bruxelles
Tel. (France): +33 47 97 17 640
Fax (France): +33 47 97 17 649
Email: apejs@club-internet.fr
Website: http://www.emmenet.org/

The European Modern Music Education Network (EMMEN) is committed to establish itself as a representative interlocutor for the European popular music education and training sector. Its founding members include 26 schools representing nearly 8,000 students and 700 teachers. Member schools are located in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany, the UK and Switzerland.

FCM
le Fonds pour la Création Musicale
141, rue Lafayette
F - 75010 Paris
Tel: +33 1 48 78 50 60
Fax: +33 1 45 96 06 97
Email: fcm@club-internet.fr
Website: http://www.lefcm.org/

FCM offers support to music professionals of every repertoire for all music communication activities : recordings, live music, teaching, audio-visual activities.

FIA
Fédération Internationale des Acteurs
Guild House
Upper St Martin’s Lane
GB - London WC2H 9EG
Tel: +44 20 7379 0900
Fax: +44 20 7379 8260
Email: office@fia-actors.com
Website: http://www.fia-actors.com/

The International Federaton of Actors (FIA) is the body which represents the trade unions and associations of actors, singers, dancers and other perfomers internationally. FIA works to represent and co-ordinate the interests of performing artists and their professional organisations. Currently the FIA represents 100 members in 70 countries.
FIA is active in lobbying governments, institutions and the European Commission and it is a recognised non-governmental organisation alongside UNESCO, the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the International Theatre Institute (ITI) and the Council of Europe.

GEMA
Gesellschaft für Musikalische Aufführungs- und Mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte
Rosen Heimerstrasse 11
D - 81667 Munich 80
Tel: +49 89 480 0300
Fax: +49 89 480 03 424
Email : gema@gema.de
Website: http://www.gema.de/

GEMA is the oldest, best-known and economically the most important collecting society in Germany. Its name is a clear indication of its field of activities: "Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte (Society for Musical Performing Rights and Mechanical Reproduction Rights)". GEMA not only acts as a collecting society, but also stands up nationally, internationally and in the EC for the legal advancement of copyright, which in economic terms represents an important aspect of intellectual property.
Currently the GEMA has 55 000 members.

ICMP/CIEM
International Confederation of Music Publishers
47, Rue de Turbigo
F - 75003 Paris
Tel: +33 1 42 72 38 99
Fax: +33 1 42 72 38 05
Email: 101374.25@compuserve.com

The International Confederation of Music Publishers represents the music publishing community globally, serious and popular music, independent and major publishers, in Europe and worldwide. ICMP/CIEM includes the quasi-entirety of all national music publishers' trade associations in and outside Europe, as well as regional (Latin America and Asia) and international (IMPA) associations.

IDKV
Federal Association of the Performance Industry
Lenhartzstr. 15
Postfach 202364
D – 20249 Hamburg
Tel: +49 40 460 50 28
Fax: +49 40 46 88 14 17
Email: idkv@idkv.com
Website: http://www.idkv.com/

IDKV - Bundesverband der Veranstaltungswirtschaft (formerly: Interessenverband Deutscher Konzertveranstalter und Kuenstlervermittler e.V.) is the German professional association for promoters, artists' managers and concert agents. IDKV has over 240 members.
The aim of the Association is to draw together all those professional groups active in the entertainment industry under a united professional umbrella. It promotes the professional interests of its members and represents them in dealings with third parties, in particular with the authorities and legislators, but also with the public. It endeavours, as far as cartel legislation permits, to contribute to the professional regulation of the entertainment industry.

IMPALA
Independent Music Companies Association
Rue du Trône, 51
B – 1050 Bruxelles
Tel: +32 2 289 26 00
Fax: +32 2 289 26 06
Email: pkern@kernnet.com
Website: http://www.impalasite.org/

The Independent Music Companies Association (IMPALA) is a not-for-profit organisation with a scientific and artistic purpose. It aims at promoting the interests of the independent music industry among governments, international organisations (WTO/WIPO) and European institutions.
Founded in 2000, the organisation is based in Brussels. The membership of IMPALA embraces independent music companies active in the production and distribution of sound recordings as well as in music publishing. Members are both individual music companies as well as national trade associations. Currently IMPALA has 1500 members.

IMRO
Copyright House
Pembroke Road
Lower Baggot Street
IRL - Dublin 2
Tel: +353 1 661 48 44
Fax: +353 1 662 03 96
Email: info@imro.ie
Website: http://www.imro.ie/

IMRO is the national body administering the performing rights in copyright music in Ireland on behalf of its members (about 3500) - songwriters, composers and music publishers - and on behalf of the members of the 562 overseas societies affiliated to it. IMRO issues licences to those wishing to use copyright music in public. It is working to better protect the rights of those whom it represents by promoting awareness about copyright issues, working with governments, and educating the music-using public. It is committed to giving new creative talent a chance.

IUC
Music & Experience Industry
P.O Box 139
S - 577 23 Hultsfred
Tel: +46 495 696 75
Fax: +46 495 696 51
Email: info@iuchultsfred.nu
Website: http://www.iuchultsfred.nu/

IUC is a development company for the Swedish Music Industry in particular and Experienceindustry in general, which supports good new product ideas, services, processes and concepts by using capital, expertise and contact networks. It also acts as a think-tank for the investigation and examination of the music industry's needs in connection with important issues, such as Educations, Livestage and Research.

IUC Hultsfred is owned by 50 different bodies from within the industry, incl. SAMI {Swedish Artists' and Musicians' Interest Organisation}), The Hultsfred Festival, Studiefrämjandet Musik & Media (Study Promotion Accociation Music And Media department), MNW Records, Sony Music, Almi Företagspartner.

JMI
Jeunesses Musicales Internationales
Palais des Beaux Arts
Rue Royale 10
B - 1000 Bruxelles
Tel: +32 2 513 97 74
Fax: +32 2 514 47 55
Email: mail@jmi.net
Website: http://www.jmi.net/

JMI is the regional subsidiary of Jeunesses Musicales International, and brings together European member countries of Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI).
JMI, a worldwide network for youth and music, has spread a message of friendship and understanding through music. By providing young people with access to music, both as performers and as listeners, Jeunesses Musicales serves the needs of young people involved in diverse styles of music in countries around the world. Currently JMI has 500 000 members.

KODA-DMF
° Performing Rights Collecting Society
° Danish Music Information Center
° Dansk Musiker Forbund./Musicians Union
Sankt Hans Torv 26
DK - 2200 Copenhagen N
Tel: +45 35 240 240
Fax: +45 35 240 214
Email: dmf@dmf.dk
Website: http://www.dmf.dk/

KODA is a Danish society that administers Danish and international copyrights for composers, writers and music publishers when their musical works are performed in public.
Through agreements with approximately 24,500 Danish composers, songwriters and music publishers, together with reciprocal contracts with foreign sister societies, KODA represents almost the total world repertoire of protected music in Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. KODA is in charge of the administration of the public performing rights, but has transferred the mechanical rights to the jointly owned Nordic society, Nordisk Copyright Bureau (NCB).

The Danish Musicians' Union is the trade union for approximately 6000 professional musicians in all genres of music in Denmark.
DMF offers its members legal advice, tax advice and hands-on contract negotiation assistance, a selection of discount schemes on many music related services including various insurances, financial support for projects, a wide range of educational courses etc.
DMF represents musicians' interests in all political, cultural and music related matters nationally as well as internationally.
DMF works in close co-operation with the musicians' unions in the Nordic countries within NMU - Nordisk Musiker Union, as well as with musicians' unions around the world within FIM - Fédération Internationale des Musiciens.

MMF UK
Music Managers' Forum
7 Russell Gardens
GB - London W14 8EZ
Tel: +44 20 7751 1894
Fax: 44 20 7603 4411
Email: office@ukmmf.net
Website: http://www.ukmmf.net/

The International Managers Forum is an organisation that represents the interests of artist managers worldwide. The UK chapter has 400 members (approx) bringing the total to 2000 members worldwide.
The formation of MMF has given managers an opportunity for sharing and learning and also a much-needed voice within the industry. The forum has provided a chance for meaningful dialogue with the Government and other industry organisations as well as between managers themselves.
As a body representing managers the MMF seeks to raise professional standards in management. It also helps its members develop management skills and knowledge of the music industry.

MMVV
Mercat de Music Viva de Vic
Edifici et Sucre
c/ Historiador Ramon d'Abadal i de Vinyals, 5, 2° planta
SP - 08500 Vic
Tel: +34 93 883 31 00
Fax: +34 93 883 26 26
Email: mmvv@ajvic.es
Website: http://www.mmvv.impevic.net/

Prime Art
Management and concert/tour promotion
3, Hadjiyanni Mexi st. & Vass. Sofias Ave.
GR - 115 28 Athens
Tel: +30 10 7293 820
Fax: +30 10 7293 822
Email: primeart@primeart.gr
Website: http://www.primeart.gr/

Prime Art was established in 1997 by Natasha Pavlopoulou and Olga Kalogriadou, two professionals greatly experienced and widely known throughout the field of arts management and cultural activities in Greece. Prime Art's primary objective is to offer its services in the field of culture, responsibly and professionally, covering the following directions:

• management and promotion of Greek artists,
  
• organisation of cultural events and festivals in Greece and abroad,
  
• promotion of Greek art productions,
  
• engagement of foreign artists and ensembles in Greece,
  
• production of cultural events by private financial resources.
  

SABAM
Société Belge des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs
Rue d'Arlon 75-77
B - 1040 Bruxelles
Tel: +32 2 286 82 11
Fax: +32 2 230 05 89
Email: info@sabam.be
Website: http://www.sabam.be/

Composers, lyricists, publishers, authors of dramatic works, scriptwriters, dialogue writers, photographers, subtitle authors, directors, translators, novelists, poets, sculptors, painters, drawers, choreographers are all members of SABAM, the Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers. SABAM attaches much importance to the promotion of the arts and encourages several cultural initiatives in Belgium. As a collecting society SABAM has more than 4 million listed works and represents thousands of creative artists.

SACEM
Société d’administration des droits des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique
225, av. Charles de Gaulle
F – 92521 Neuilly sur Seine cedex
Tel: +33 1 47 15 47 15
Fax: +33 1 47 15 48 85
Website: http://www.sacem.fr/

SACEM Lux.
Société d’administration des droits des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique
46 rue Goethe
L -1637 Luxembourg
Tel: +352 47 55 59
Fax: +352 48 02 76
Email:  bob.krieps@sacem.fr
Website: http://www.sacem.fr/

SGAE
Sociedad General de Autores y Editores
C/ Fernando VI, 4
SP - 28004 Madrid
Tel: +34 91 349 95 00
Fax: +34 91 349 96 00
Email: infoweb@sgae.net
Website: http://www.sgae.es/

SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores) is a not-for-profit organisation which defends and represents the rights of authors belonging to more than 50,000 member associations (including composers, script writers, publishers, directors and playwrights).
This collective society represents a total of over one million musical, theatre, choreographic, pantomimic, cinematographic, audiovisual and documentary works. SGAE' s mission is to grant authorization for their use and check they be used in appropriate way. To that end its activity consists in granting licences, setting up tariffs and collecting and redistributing among its associates the sum attached to each author's work.

SIAE
Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori
Viale della Letteratura 30
I - 00144 Roma
Tel: +390 6 599 01
Fax: +390 6 596 47 052 /050 /049
Email: rapporti.internazionali@siae.it
Website: http://www.siae.it/

SIAE (Italian Society of Authors and Publishers) is an organisation for the protection of intellectual works. Its aim for over a century has been that of joining together authors, publishers and other copyright owners in order to protect copyright works in Italy and abroad.
SIAE authorises the utilisation of works under its protection, collects the sums required for the issue of authorisations and distributes these sums to the authors and publishers of the works utilised. SIAE currently has 54 459 members.

SPA
Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores
Duque de Loule 31
PT - 1069 Lisboa Codex
Tel: +351 21 35 944 00
Fax: +351 21 35 302 57
Email: geral@spautores.pt
Website: http://www.spautores.pt/

SPA is a co-operative which was created in 1925 to administer Authors' rights (copyright), under the terms of national laws and international agreements (such as the Bern Convention of 1886 and Universal Convention of 1952, both reviewed in 1971).
The aims of SPA are to authorise the utilisation of the works of copyright holders it represents, to establish the terms of this utilisation and to collect rights in respect of this utilisation. Furthermore, SPA aims to distribute the amounts collected by the copyright owners concerned, after deduction of its commissions. SPA also wishes to represent neighbouring rightholders, such as artists, phonographic and videographic producers, and audio and visual broadcasting organisations.

STIM/Svensk Musik
Swedish Performing Rights Society
Swedish Music Information Center
c/o SVENSK MUSIC
Sandhamnsgatan 79
SW - 102 54 Stockholm
Tel: +46 87 83 88 00
Fax: +46 86 62 62 75
Email: swedmic@stim.se
Website: http://www.stim.se/

STIM/Svensk Musik - The Swedish Music Information Center, is the Swedish link in an international system which was established to safeguard the financial rights of composers and lyricists under copyright law. STIM currently has approximately 40 000 members.

TEOSTO-GRAMEX
Finnish Composers’ Copyright Society
Artists and Producers’ Copyright Society
Lauttasaarentie 1
FIN - 00200 Helsinki
Tel: +358 9 68 10 11
Fax: +358 9 67 71 34
Email: teosto@teosto.fi
Website: http://www.teosto.fi/

Teosto, the Finnish Composers' Copyright Society, was established to administer the copyright of Finnish creators of music.
Through the reciprocal representation contracts made with foreign copyright societies, Teosto also represents foreign copyright owners -composers, lyricists, arrangers and music publishers- in Finland. Equally, foreign copyright societies represent Finnish copyright holders in their territories.
Teosto grants, on behalf of copyright owners, all permits and licences required for the use of music. It also collects the licence fees and distributes the collected fees to the copyright owners.

Gramex is a copyright society which promotes and administers the rights (prescribed in the Copyright Act) of performing artists whose performances have been recorded on phonograms. It also promotes and administers the rights of producers of phonograms.
The most important practical function of Gramex is to collect remunerations for the use of phonograms and to distribute the collected remunerations to those entitled to them.

TONO
Performing rights Society for Composers, Authors and Music Publishers
Galleiret
Toyenbekkan 21
Postboks 9171
Groenland
NW - 0134 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 05 72 00
Fax: +47 22 05 72 50
Email: tono@tono.no
Website: http://tono.no/english.html


TONO was established in 1928 and protects the performing (financial and legal) rights of Norwegian and foreign composers. It also protects the rights of authors and publishers of music performed in Norway.

WBM
Wallonie Bruxelles Musique
18 pl. E. Flagey (Bte 10)
B - 1050 Bruxelles
Tel: +32 2 218 62 09
Fax: +32 2 218 34 24
Email: wbm@cfwb.be
Website: http://www.wbm.be/

WBM's objective is to promote artists, producers and publishers from Wallonia and Brussels abroad- in all music fields. Its activities include : the organisation of shared stands for trade fairs for the recording and live music industries; participation in information- and artistic exchange networks ; participation in promotion events ; provision of accessible documentation, provision of "tour support" for bands touring abroad and the production of promotion tools.

YOUROPE
European Festival Association
Rosenbergstrasse 14
CH-9000 St. Gallen
Tel: +41 71 223 41 01
Fax: +41 71 223 41 09
Email: yourope@yourope.org
Website: http://www.yourope.org/

YOUROPE was founded in November '98. The association presently has 22 members among the most well established festivals in Europe. They are all dedicated to strengthen the festival scene in Europe in terms of working conditions, safety, environmental awareness and exchange of performing talent across borders. The aim of the association is to locate and highlight all common grounds for collaboration and the potential problematic areas where a joint approach is called for.