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CWR for AKM / austro mechana

AKM / austro mechana administers performance (AKM) and mechanical (austro mechana) rights in Austria. Austria's paired societies.

History

AKM dates to 1897 — among the world's oldest societies — with austro mechana founded in 1946 for the mechanical side. Vienna's concert tradition made Austria an early adopter of authors' rights administration.

CWR at AKM / austro mechana

The pair are registered together from one CWR delivery, in the standard CISAC pattern.

Publishers deliver CWR files to AKM / austro mechana directly (as members, affiliates, or sub-publishers). Like nearly every CISAC society, AKM / austro mechana works in the CWR 2.1 / 2.2 era — the versions in production use worldwide since the standard displaced the proprietary registration formats of the 1990s. Per-society delivery profiles do change, so confirm the current version and any local quirks before a first delivery.

Related societies

GEMA · SUISA

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