Collective Rights Management Regulations 2016
Access the Collective Management of Copyright (EU Directive) Regulations 2016. The law sets service standards on collective management organisations (CMOs), like DACS, to ensure their operations and governance structures are transparent and consistent.
Based on an EU law which intends to make collective management organisations across Europe more equitable, it applies from 10 April 2016. It’s also known as the Collective Rights Management (CRM) Regulations.From the linked Legislation.gov.uk pages, you can also find any amendments made to the regulations.
From the linked Legislation.gov.uk pages, you can also find any amendments made to the regulations.
Collective Management of Copyright (EU Directive) Regulations 2016
The following 7 subsections contain links through to relevant parts of the
Regulations on Legislation.gov.uk.
About the Regulations
Part 2
3. General obligations of collective management organisations in relation to right holders
4. Particular obligations of collective management organisations in relation to right holders
5. Membership rules of collective management organisations
6. Collective management organisations and their members
7. General assembly of members of collective management organisations
8. Collective management organisations: supervisory function
9. Collective management organisations: management
10. Collection and use of rights revenue
11. Deductions
12. Distributions of amounts to right holders
13. Rights managed under representation agreements
14. Deductions and payments in representation agreements
15. Licensing
16. Users’ obligations
17. Information provided to right holders
18. Information provided to other collective management organisations
19. Information provided to right holders, other collective management organisations and users on request
20. Disclosure of information to the public
21. Annual transparency report
Part 3
22. Application
23. Capacity to process multi-territorial licences
24. Transparency of multi-territorial repertoire information
25. Accuracy of multi-territorial repertoire information
26. Reporting and invoicing
27. Payment to right holders
28. Agreements between collective management organisations for multi-territorial licensing
29. Representation of other collective management organisations in relation to multi-territorial licensing
30. Access to multi-territorial licensing
Part 4
31. Complaints procedure
32. Alternative dispute resolution procedures
33. Right of right holders in relation to a breach of regulation 4
34. Monitoring of compliance
35. Evidence of non-compliance
36. Power to request information
37. Compliance notice
38. Financial penalties for non-compliance
39. Financial penalties: procedure
40. Appeals
41. Recovery of a financial penalty
42. Notices
43. Computation of time
Part 5
44. Amendments
45. The Copyright (Regulation of Relevant Licensing Bodies) Regulations 2014 are...
46. (1) The Copyright and Rights in Performances (Extended Collective Licensing)...
47. Transitional provisions
48. Despite the omission by these Regulations of the definitions “code...
49. Despite the revocation by these Regulations of regulations 10(2)(g) and...
50. Despite the revocation by these Regulations of regulation 14(2)(c) of...
51. Review