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CWR for GMR
GMR administers performance rights in United States. Global Music Rights — the youngest and smallest US PRO, also invitation-only.
History
Founded in 2013 by Irving Azoff, GMR was the first new American PRO in roughly 75 years. It represents a deliberately small roster of major writers and negotiates outside the consent decrees that bind ASCAP and BMI — a bet that scarce, premium repertoire beats scale.
CWR at GMR
With a few hundred writers rather than a million, GMR's registration flows are bespoke: delivery is arranged directly when you affiliate, CWR included by arrangement.
Publishers deliver CWR files to GMR directly (as members, affiliates, or sub-publishers). Like nearly every CISAC society, GMR 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
Two free checks for your CWR file. Is the file correct? Every record, share and control total against the spec, each problem on its exact line. Do its writers match their registrations? Every writer cross-checked against public registration data, including works registered under another spelling or IPI. Nothing stored: check a file at cwrcheck.com.