Collective Management of Copyright (EU Directive) Regulations 2016, regulation 4: right holders choose, by documented consent, what a collecting society manages and can withdraw it (SI 2016/221, reg. 4(d)(ii) and 4(g)(i))
In the UK a writer or publisher hands a collecting society each right it manages by specific, documented consent, and can withdraw the rights of its choice on reasonable notice. Whether the society or the writer may license a work for AI training therefore turns on what the membership terms hand over.
Dated 31 Oct 2026Source checked 31 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
Selling a company's data? This is one of the rules a sale has to meet, and the guide beside the button reads it in plain words.
- No data upload
- About two minutes
- No email needed
In the source's own words
“to withdraw from a collective management organisation the matters of their choice referred to in paragraph (a)(i) to (iv) for the territory of their choice, upon serving reasonable notice not exceeding six months unless the collective management organisation decides that such termination or withdrawal is to take place at the end of its financial year; ... the right holder gives consent specifically for each of the matters referred to in paragraph (a)(i) to (iv) which the right holder authorises the collective management organisation to manage;”
Figures it counts in
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
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